Are you suggesting that ALL FIVE of the aides quoted in the story are suspect of sandbagging her? That seems to me like quite a stretch - esp. with Steve Biegun specifically countering the Africa & Nafta stuff.
I certainly don’t get “stupid and ignorant diva” from any of the quoted remarks. What I hear is the opposite.
No, I wasn’t. What I said is I didn’t the aides I named denying the validity of gossip claims—or that they were the whisperers. And, apparently they weren’t asked.
I think John McCain likes having Palin being a scapegoat. Takes the onus off of him. Notice all the talk has been about Palin’s failures, not his. So he keeps his mouth shut. This fits right in with his basic philosophy of trashing his own kind while not trashing the opposition. Now it’s Sarah’s turn to be trashed. He’s already zinged most of his fellow Pubs except for the RINO’s like Lindsey Graham, so now it’s Palin. Also, John McCain has always secretly harbored a semi-hatred for the religious right, of which Sarah is one. He blames then for attacking him the last time he ran, and therefore he trashed Pat Robertson and Jerry Fawell. He considers Bush one of them (although he really isn’t) and he trashed Bush. He is now most likely blaming (behind her back) Palin for his loss; once again it’s those lousy religious fundamentalists that have done him in. McCain’s got mental issues and frankly I’m glad he’s not President. The only problem is that we’ve now got a President who has a different set of mental issues, equally bad. It was like a choice between the devil and the deep blue sea. We lose either way.
Maybe Steve Biegun can identify the various staffers who were drifting in and out of the room during the briefing sessions. Narrow the list of suspects. Or maybe Gov Palin can provide that list.