Posted on 11/07/2008 3:32:58 AM PST by NCDragon
There was more war than there was peace on the McCain-Palin ticket, American voters are starting to learn, especially in the last few weeks of the presidential election as top lieutenants serving the senator from Arizona became increasingly appalled by the freelancing ways of the very well-dressed governor from Alaska.
McCain barely knew Palin when he chose her. And aside from those few rallies when they appeared together, for instance in Hershey, Penn., one week before polling day, they barely spoke to each on the trail, especially towards the end.
The recriminations will be flowing both ways. Palin, who has returned to Alaska after commenting briefly on the tensions in Arizona on Wednesday, has more reason to manage the post-poll gossip trading to her advantage than does McCain. He is returning to his Senate job and his ambitions beyond are of the golfing variety. Not so Palin, whom some see as a future leader of her party.
"There is absolutely no diva in me," she told reporters in Phoenix. If she meant it to be good-humored, the context was much more brittle. Diva was the pejorative term applied to Palin in the dying days of the campaign by an unidentified source in the McCain circle. On the day she and McCain appeared together in Hershey, a writer for the Politico website reported a McCain aide calling her a "whack job."
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No they were not. They are meant to get you, personally, on the record as to how you will categorize a specific individual. You have asserted certain facts with utmost certainty, and you should not be afraid to assert that Nicolle Wallace is both a Republican, and in the McCain camp.
If you won't say it yourself, then I'll say it for you. Cedric holds that Nicolle Wallace is both a Republican, and a member of the McCain camp. You can either accept that, or reject it. If you don't reject it, then you are on record as accepting it.
Palin is a bible believing fundamentalist. She actually believes what the Bible say’s and accepts it as truth. This doesn’t go over well with the “elite” who consider such people ignorant.
Palin is one of the unwashed masses, someone to be used (as McCain did) then tossed when their usefulness is over. She isnt wealthy, she is not a blue blood, she hails from an ordinary family.
Politicians love to extol the virtues of folks like Sarah because the country is full of people like Sarah and they need their vote. In the end you can see what they really think of us by their treatment of Ms Palin now.
I say we need to look past the “warts”, like the dems do, and hang on to this charming, classy lady.
All politicians are “opportunists.” If, as everyone insists, Palin’s looks aren’t important, then why are there pictures of her on practically every McCain and/or Palin thread?
Your comment, the one that puts you in the "not worth talking to" camp, was in the nature of some conservatives would not support a candidate who looked like Helen Thomas, and would not support a candidate who was fat.
GFY.
Right back at you.
“What McC might not have realized is the depth of enmity the base feels for him after having been dissed by him and the other RINOs for so many years.”
I a bit skeptical of him not realizing that the base distrusted him. I think that he thought he could fool the bumpkins again, use Palin, and then go his usual RINO way. He didn’t fool her very long did he?
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