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
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
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
You say the same crap on every thread. If you aren’t interested in what Repubs are tearing the party apart, then find another thread.
Of course.
Did you read the article?
Ahhhhhh!
I agree!
I was at that convention (Huckabee, Romney and Paul were all there—all but McCain). And I thought that the behavior of the McCain campaign was sleazy. Romney had by far the most delegates and did get shafted at that event.
However, Palin had nothing to do with that.
Thanks for all the great comments from everybody!
Personally Id like to see them run together.
Apparently this has escaped some on the thread. ;-)
You say the same crap on every thread. If you aren’t interested in what Repubs are tearing the party apart, then find another thread.
LOL! Back at you!
Republicans tearing each other apart?
LOL!
All I’ve said is deal with REALITY.
Guess I’m asking too much . . .
Thanks for exposing yourself as yet another McCain troll who doesn’t belong on conservative websites.
Go back to DU.
Obama’s spending will make that 700 billion look like chump change.
They are already planning another 300 billion in additional funding. then theres the 875 billion aid for africa.
You make a good point.
However, these are also being reported at many places, including American Spectator last week.
In my opinion, it’s not divide and conquer to defend Palin from the slurs of “unnamed aides and advisers”.
I wish that no such action was needed. The piece was originally about how well the McCain campaign ran, in spite of the many hills it had to climb. However, the Palin slams changed the main direction of the post.
Nobody is smearing Palin.
Palin did not win OK?
We got bigger fish to fry, like, an Obama president for instance?
Get a Grip.
But...our vote wasn’t supposed to matter. The moderates would unite and vote in McCain !
How’d that work out for ya?
Had McCain had some core values, and had remained true to himself, and the brand that he built, then yes. Not only he would have been a strong candidate, he could have won had he paired up with Romney and treated the debacle country is facing SERIOUSLY.
However, once he surrendered to Rovian wing of the party, slash and burn, divide and conqueor, his brand was gone, he was gone.
Instead of analysis and finding solutions, he relied on razzle dazzle moves, winning news cycles, trivializing big issues, tricks, robocalls etc.
America is too scared right now to fall for dirty tricks.
McCain’s failure TEMPORARILY surrendered the party to Sister Sarah.
Objective from that point onwards was to get your base (perhaps 40% of the electorate) out, and then SCARE THE HELL OUT OF 10% more.
If Obama wasn’t black, then GOP would be facing Goldwater-Proportions debacle.
Sarah Palin scared America. Fortunately for GOP, she made such a fool of herself during the interviews, that instead of fearing her, they started laughing at her. GOP was spared.
For that I thank her.
“How’d that work out for ya?”
I dunno, how’d Obama work out for you?
Romniacs trashing Palin in order to keep her out of his way in 2012 fractures the party. Every time the Dems do it, we win. When we do it, we lose. It’s a fact of politics. A house divided cannot stand. And if it’s not fixed, there will be no more wins on anything. Not in congress or in elections.
Five things the Republicans must due by 2010:
1) Make Mike Pence or Thaddeus McCotter the minority leader in the House.
2) Make Michael Steele the RNC chairman
3) Take out John McCain in the 2010 Arizona Republican Sentae Primary
4) Destroy Mitt Romney and his camp
5) Provide Sarah Palin the forum to allow the country to see who she really is.
I am not trashing Palin.
Show me where I did.
I siad, it should not be our focus.
Yes. They are. A fractured party that eats it's own will win nothing. Ever.
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