McCain Aides Attack Sarah Palin: Scapegoating Sarah Palin

DBKP ^ | November 6, 2008 | Mondo

[mondoreb]

The McCain Campaign:
Mistakes, But Hampered Ultimately By Both the Candidate and his Campaign Advisers--Not by Sarah Palin
McCain Campaign is Responsible for McCain's Defeat

Palin Was Attacked from the Inside from Almost the Moment She gave the McCain Campaign their First Realistic Chance at Victory

The McCain Campaign Unnamed Aides vs. Sarah Palin

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UPDATES at end of post.

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FROM GOSSIP TO GOSPEL

The McCain campaign made some shrewd moves, but it also was guilty of some moves that ultimately doomed its unlikely candidate--with the most momentous misstep coming from John McCain himself.

Like any losing campaign, those in charge of the campaign seek to lay the blame for losing on factors beyond their control. In this regard, the long knives came out from various unnamed aides and advisers in the McCain campaign, who are anxious to run from their responsibility for the Election 2008 loss.

Most of those knives appear to have Sarah Palin's name on them--and they were unsheathed before the race for the presidency was even over.

In what can be most charitably described as "resume-polishing", various aides in the John McCain campaign have continued their practice of leaking uncomplimentary "anecdotal" information detrimental to Sarah Palin.

Understand: these "aides", "advisers" and "sources" from "within the McCain campaign", as they're labeled, bear much responsibility for a campaign that, like its candidate, was somewhat unconventional and ultimately failed to win McCain the presidency.

These staffers--most of whom will soon be in the job-hunting market--apparently feel that there's a wider market for an aide from a losing campaign that was sabotaged from within. Stories of an "uncooperative" VP pick inoculates them against any bad decisions made by such "aides" and "advisers".

These aides-gone-rogue merely have to pick up their cellphone or hit "send" on their email--anonymously, by the way--and a waiting press eagerly elevates such grousing and sour grapes from gossip to gospel.

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THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN

There is much for which the McCain campaign can be proud.

• John McCain garnered the fourth-largest vote total for any candidate in history. His total of 56,497,501 votes were more than any previous losing Republican candidate. It was also the fourth-highest popular vote total in U.S. history. Of course the electorate is larger in 2008 than 24 years ago, but McCain received 2 million more votes than Ronald Reagan got in his 1984 blowout.
• McCain won 21 states with 174 electoral votes. Included in this total were wins in states in which McCain was outspent by a wide margin. McCain was also competitive in the "battleground" states, losing several by close margins, while winning others.
• The McCain campaign produced these numbers with a not-unimpressive ground game. Republicans in general however, voted in less numbers than they did in 2004. Also, there were paticular groups who came down on the side of Obama: wealthy voters across the USA voted for Obama, for instance.
• John McCain was never a favorite of conservatives--this site included. McCain's "maverick" image was achieved by attacking conservatives and Republicans. Still, McCain's naming of Palin as his running mate energized conservatives.
• McCain took a risk and named Sarah Palin as his running mate. McCain's campaign was staffed with many non-conservatives. The campaign's failure to excite the Republican base was evident prior to the naming of Palin. After Palin, contributions and volunteers came into the McCain camapign from conservatives--many who were prepared to "sit out" this election.

That being said, John McCain was a Republican candidate that the New York Times could love--and indeed, the NYT did endorse the Arizona Senator in the primary election. Of course, after the election, the NYT and the rest of the Mainstream Media deserted McCain, just as many predicted would happen.

Where is the anti-Palin leaks coming from? And why?

Continue reading: McCain Aides Attack Sarah Palin: Scapegoating Sarah Palin

[AmericanInTokyo]

RINO ALERT:

Nicolle Wallace -- White House Assistant to the President for Communications Nicolle Devenish Wallace served as Communications Director for Bush-Cheney '04. Prior to joining the campaign, Devenish was Special Assistant to the President and Director of Media Affairs at the White House where she oversaw regional press strategy and outreach. Before joining the Bush Administration, Devenish was Florida Governor Jeb Bush's Press Secretary and later Communications Director for the Florida State Technology Office. Devenish also served California's Assembly Republican Caucus from 1997 to 1998 and worked for the California Republican Party in 1998. She received her bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Berkley and her master’s degree from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.

[Arkinsaw]

I know why the snakes are attacking Sarah Palin, she represents the Conservatives and we are the ones they really want to destroy.

Yup. They are nervous about a Conservative resurgence after the disaster they have constructed. And rightly so.

[Arkinsaw]

Congratulations on electing the Moonbat Messiah through your negligence.

You might aim the blame the moderates who constructed the debacle rather than the conservatives who refused to vote for a debacle.

You go on voting for the lesser of two evils. If you ever want my vote back you can nominate someone who knows Ronald Reagan and won't sign on to setting 700 bllion dollars on fire.

[Big Horn]

I think Palin with millions of loyal supporters will be a force much longer than McCain and his dimwitted liberal staff.

[Star Traveler]

You said — “Get out there and defend her. She soldiered for you, dangit. And brought me on board along with millions of others.”

Well, according to Governor Palin (on a radio interview in Alaska), she said she called McCain and asked him directly about these things. McCain’s answer to Governor Palin was simply to ignore it (and nothing else).

So, don’t expect anything from McCain. No wonder he lost the race. Governor Palin, on the other hand, won...

[zipper]

In case you haven’t noticed the price tag is much more than 700 billion.

That’s just the down payment for the transition to socialism.

The socialsm that good men allowed to prevail through inaction.

[Sun]

So far they found several leakers, and are looking for more.

[AC-130 Gunship]

LMAO!!

D@mn bro - you are so frickin’ gooooood.

BLAM!! :-)