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McCain Aides Attack Sarah Palin: Scapegoating Sarah Palin
DBKP ^ | November 6, 2008 | Mondo

Posted on 11/06/2008 5:06:11 PM PST by 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

McCain-Palin

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


UPDATES at end of post.


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.


THE McCAIN CAMPAIGN

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

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aides; attacks; johnmccain; sarahpalin
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To: All; steelyourfaith

Operation Leper
Posted by: Erick Erickson
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 at 10:43PM CST

RedState is pleased to announce it is engaging in a special project: Operation Leper.

We’re tracking down all the people from the McCain campaign now whispering smears against Governor Palin to Carl Cameron and others. Michelle Malkin has the details.
We intend to constantly remind the base about these people, monitor who they are working for, and, when 2012 rolls around, see which candidates hire them. Naturally then, you’ll see us go to war against those candidates.

It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.

They’ll just have to be stuck at CBS with Katie’s failed ratings.

Initial list:

Nicolle Wallace
Steve Schmidt
Mark McKinnon

excerpt http://www.redstate.com/


41 posted on 11/06/2008 5:38:15 PM PST by Sun (Pray that God sends us good leaders. Please say a prayer now.)
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To: sionnsar
Simpson was probably a good husband for a period. Where are they now?

42 posted on 11/06/2008 5:39:28 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: The_Republican

Are you actually contending that McCain was a better candidate than Sarah?


43 posted on 11/06/2008 5:39:53 PM PST by TheFourthMagi
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To: deport

So we get hillary biden ? or Biden hillary


44 posted on 11/06/2008 5:39:56 PM PST by al baby (Hi mom Honkeys for Mc Cain Palin)
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To: Mr. Mojo
She scares all liberals. ...especially the Republican variety.

DING...DING...DING

another Winner!

Thank you

45 posted on 11/06/2008 5:39:56 PM PST by LasVegasMac (Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
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To: mondoreb
Fight Back, Join Operation Freep Palin
46 posted on 11/06/2008 5:40:01 PM PST by mnehring
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To: deport

Could you post it?

Can’t find the ole’ pocket Constitution. And others may be interested.


47 posted on 11/06/2008 5:40:15 PM PST by KittenClaws
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To: Lady GOP

Very smart post.

I’m thinking hard about no. 1. (She’s a WOMAN and inexperienced). I’m a show-me guy, but the moment I saw her resume (and even before I saw her face) I was in love with this Gov. Palin. She made me hopeful. I’m thinking that with her resume, had she been anywhere on the other side of the aisle, she would have been celebrated. Heck, my 25-year-old daughter who manages a Victoria’s Secret store has a better leadership resume than Obama, now the CIC (Shudder and see my tagline). The disgrace of this election is the trashing of a professional, dignified woman and her family and the denigration of the governor of a western state.

Anybody McCain had selected as his wingman would’ve been trashed by the opposition, but the way the press became, not merely enablers but active participants, is a full-blown disgrace.

It wasn’t because it was a woman, but because they decided to trash a GOP woman. Something that’d be a hate crime if done to, say, Michelle O.

Which reminds me (rambling on alert), you did notice that she became stealth wife until after the election. Now that America has been conditioned to believe it’s okay to trash a woman, wait till they get a load of that woman day in and day out. Especially if she wears dresses that look like she just wore to slaughter a hog on the dining room table.


48 posted on 11/06/2008 5:43:36 PM PST by StAntKnee (Pray for our military. Look who's CIC. And I thought Jimmy Carter was bad.)
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To: Cedric

Are you professing that the Republican Party is in fact ideologically unified?


49 posted on 11/06/2008 5:44:13 PM PST by TheFourthMagi
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To: KittenClaws

so hussein is a “good man” huh? please fill us all in on just what you find is ANY good about him noob.


50 posted on 11/06/2008 5:46:10 PM PST by bobby.223
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To: Doug TX

McCain refuted these types of rumors during the campaign.


51 posted on 11/06/2008 5:46:25 PM PST by Cedric
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To: mondoreb

it was not sarah. it was the 25% and raking over the coals that Bush got for 8 years of his term

I ran into two people at staples today. I mentioned, we are in a communist nation. they scoffed and said give him a chance. i said why you didn’t give my president a chance?

bush was NOT perfect, but look at the DOW now that the dems are in charge and they haven’t even taken charge yet. all over the news LAY OFFS profits are down.

the market does not favor COMMUNISM


52 posted on 11/06/2008 5:47:23 PM PST by television is just wrong (obama is going to pay my mortgage for me!)
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To: TheFourthMagi

No.


53 posted on 11/06/2008 5:47:39 PM PST by Cedric
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To: StAntKnee

I am really sad about Palin’s treatment by the media. I actually cried last night thinking about what they did to her. She is so strong and will rise. Sarah is wonderful.


54 posted on 11/06/2008 5:47:49 PM PST by Lady GOP
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To: bobby.223

My disclaimer was for FBI purpose.

Read again, and understand, Oh Holy one.


55 posted on 11/06/2008 5:49:04 PM PST by KittenClaws
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To: Lady GOP

Agreed.


56 posted on 11/06/2008 5:49:13 PM PST by Cedric
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To: mondoreb

“McCain took a risk and named Sarah Palin as his running mate.”

That is utter bullshit. He had no choice because he hates Romney’s guts, and he knew he would alienate not only conservatives, but many other Republicans if he had named who he really wanted: Joe Lieberman.


57 posted on 11/06/2008 5:50:40 PM PST by Bull Market (The Neo-Con experiment failed. John McCain deserved to lose.)
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To: driftdiver
yeah having Obama is much better. whew that was close

I voted for someone who didn't vote to fritter away 700+ billion of my kids and grandkids money despite opposition from the vast majority of Americans. McCain would have won had he not voted for that. 7 of 8 Republicans who voted against it won their races in a terrible environment. I am not to blame.

The Republican Party can gain votes, including mine, when it returns to its traditional stances.
58 posted on 11/06/2008 5:50:56 PM PST by Arkinsaw
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To: Arkinsaw

Apparently it’s the Romney supporters in McCain’s camp that are trying to smear Palin. They don’t want her as a threat to Romney’s 2012 run. When the Dems were fractured, we won. Repubs eat each other, we lose.


59 posted on 11/06/2008 5:51:19 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (Make yourselves sheep and the wolves will eat you. Ben Franklin)
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To: mondoreb

McCain could and should put a dampener on this with a public statement -—if he doesn’t he has no class


60 posted on 11/06/2008 5:52:10 PM PST by uncbob
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