The real narrative is the long list of subject areas where they failed this campaign. We can now add loyalty and professionalism to the growing tally. This is why they didn’t deserve to win. I lost respect for many of McCain’s aides during this election cycle. Now I’m left with none.
It strikes me as odd that McCain hasn’t spoken up about this.
Blame the chick....not the completely inferior way the entire campaign was run.
And the Repubs wonder why they’re sitting out the next 4 years.
team McCain was peopled by a bunch of cunning runts (excuse my dislexia)
Sarah had more gonads than any 50 of them.
This whole thing is worse than high school.
We all delighted in the Clinton gossip. Thrown lamps and all. Tipper not speaking to any of them. Vince and Hillary.
We've got to get out the tribal mentality of protecting our own at all costs. We'll get better candidates in the long run.
You’re not going to throw Sarah Palin under the bus, McCain folks. Had it NOT been for Sarah Palin, Mac wouldn’t have even reached 40% in the popular vote and many other states would have turned blue IMHO. Had it NOT been for Sarah Palin I would never have had such enthusiasm for the ticket. I didn’t vote for McCain in the primary. Sarah Palin at least made it seem relatively competitive. Several of the battleground states were reasonably close. If Palin were not there they would have been blowouts.
Exactly!
Preferring to see the silver-lining: I’m thankful for the mental picture of Mrs. Palin answering the door in just a towel - excuse me I think my car just hit a water buffalo.
Good news: It completely proves that she is a threat to the media, the left and the machinery of the inept Republican Party. She is a “dangerous” outsider and that’s why they’re still talking about her.
Interesting how the McCain campaign is now scapegoating Gov Palin. Seems there is now a concerted effort to damage her for any future political consideration.
Definitely a Kerrigan kneecap attempt.
I've avoided Fox for the past few years...BUT just happened to catch Carl Cameron on Shep Smith/O'Reilly and his unnamed sources regarding his previous 'off the record' anecdotes about Gov Palin.
My IMMEDIATE IMPRESSION...
Carl could be likened to a breathless, excitable, prepubescence, girl just about to bleat out the latest vicious gossip. He was so animated, spewing words per second, leaning towards the camera, straining as he related his latest juicy tidbits.
Saw that and really seemed to enjoy it, too. He more suited to TMZ.
I do NOT understand all the HELL that is being raised about her wardrobe! Who the hell pays for Obama’s suits, his airplane, etc.?
Sure as heck didn’t come out of his own pocket.
Which “campaign related” expenses must be paid for by the candidate?
He's spent more energy defending Obama than he has defending Sarah Palin.
He is part of the reason I left the Republcan Party. Bush is the other.
I don’t have a problem with them airing Palin’s shortcomings and misbehavior. However, in the same breath, they ought to be airing the names of those really responsible for putting this woefully unqualified and unvetted person on the ticket. Sarah Palin did not place herself on the ticket, and those who are responsible for placing her there need to be held to account for THEIR incredibly poor judgement. Fawning FReepers notwithstanding, Palin will be nowhere near the Republican ticket in 2012, but the campaign advisers who put her on the 2008 ticket should be banished to the fringes as well, or we can pretty much count on 8 years of President Obama.
McCain and his geniuses have to explain to themselves how they managed to lose to a guy with no experience, no resume, no past. How do you lose to a ghost?
A guy with Joe Biden as his running-mate, no less, while you’ve got a wildly popular partner out stumping for you.
How do you manage to screw that up?
They were taken aback?
When I heard this from Carl Cameron on O'Really, I knew instantly this was BS. First of all, it told me Sarah was saving her family from suffering the long hours of work by having them in a separate room (if true) and it tells me of the characterization of Todd, if that was my wife and these childish accusations were made, I would be finding these POS's and taking my belt off and using it across their faces.
...and they are complaining?