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
But I’m not doing that.
I’m saying we must deal with reality.
Right now, it makes no difference, right now, we have work to do.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2127085/posts
Nicole's Knifework (David Frum Identifies the anti-Palin Leaker)
—2) Make Michael Steele the RNC chairman—
No way. Even Steele was wobbly for obama earlier this year. NO WAY. I’m afraid you are exactly what Savage spoke about tonight...looking to put any minority face on the republican party.
Palin yes. Steele=PR role to hold that 5% of the black vote.
Yes it does make a difference. If these people are ignored, it will continue. They purposely torpedoed Palin during the campaign. That was incredibly stupid. The crap they told the press hurt McCain. If they get away with it this time, they’ll do it again. You want to lose 2012? You want to lose in 2010? I don’t. These people should be exposed so they cannot be hired and harm anyone elses campaign. This is not professional behaviour.
Read the article posted.
The question is whether he has honor.
No, I don't think that's right either. His service showed he had a sense of honor. I think the word we are looking for is integrity. He has no integrity. Any way the wind blows, doesn't really matter.
MCCAIN USED SARAH TO RAISE MONEY.
Just fine now that the party is on a rino hunt :)
Besides, I voted for Palin despite McCain. I played along with the neocons. It didn’t work. Time to throw all of you McCain trolls out.
I agree with 1,3,4, and 5.
Agreed.
Yeah, he was on television, in early October when the banks started failing. He was on lamenting that with his economic experience that he should have been McCain's Veep.
I understand that. We all do.
And we are smart enough to deal with it. They think they got away with it this time, and they did in a way.
I’m trying to find out how to deflect that next time.
I just don’t want to focus on “wallowing on the wrongs that have been done” We know what has been done.
Wallowing does not help. Action does. What is that action? I don’t know.
Sarah is the future. McCain is an example of how to be a bad candidate.
Nice try but there is no cure for the Romney Derangement Syndrome that is spreading like wildfire on all these Palin threads. I’m convinced their disdain for Romney is rooted in anti Mormon bigotry.
Read the article in the link. The National Review is a tad more credible than that blog.
“No way. Even Steele was wobbly for obama earlier this year. NO WAY. I’m afraid you are exactly what Savage spoke about tonight...looking to put any minority face on the republican party.”
I was actually basing on thegrounds I always found Steele to be a solid conservative and eloquent, pleasant speaker. I never once saw him get “wobly” for Obama. If I saw that, I would definently oppose any spot for him in the party.
All day long I kept going back to the fact that we got suckered by a RINO! Never again will I let that happen to me.
Who’s wallowing?! It’s TWO DAYS after the election! There’s a difference between “wallowing” and exposing. If someone wants to stop the infighting, the way to do it is expose it.
The disdain is rooted in the fact that he is a flip flopping poser.
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