[rabscuttle385]

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[wardaddy]

Vanity Fair writers and their fop editor Graydon Carter should all be writing for Mother Jones or The Advocate

[Westbrook]

They can’t help themselves.

She’s a pro-life conservative, she’s an unashamed Christian, she’s smart, she’s beautiful, she’s lived the pioneer life, she’s worked her way to the governorship of her very significant state with her charisma and intelligence.

Basically, she’s everything that the urban, effete Lefitst and RINO shills AREN’T. And they hate her for it.

More power too her.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Is this the same bunch of losers who couldn’t get an American Vietnam veteran the win over a bunch of punk, Marxist “community organizers” from Chicago? I’m surprised that they’d even show their faces in public let alone do a magazine interview for a leftist rag.

[rabscuttle385]

fyi

[ABQHispConservative]

Who are these guys, the campaign workers? Just to update the list.

[marron]

I have watched this guy backstab everyone who came near him for as long as I can remember. Its way past time McCain retired to live out his days doing whatever a faithless old backstabbing crank does for entertainment. But let him do it on his own dime, and not on the public payroll.

[americanophile]

"Palin refused to comment for Vanity Fair."Probably wise. I can think of no reason why this woman should subject herself to another national campaign. Would you?

[anymouse]

Todd S. Purdum that they suffer a kind of survivor's guilt following the 2008 presidential election.

They should be feeling guilty. Guess they are grousing that they can't get hired by any conservative campaigns or get invited to any of the "cool" Washington parties. What a bunch of whiners.

[kcvl]

a slew of senior members of McCain's campaign team

I bet not one of them had the guts to put their name behind the remarks they gave to Todd Purdum (Dee Dee Myers husband) either!!!

[OldDeckHand]

No one should forget that Todd S. Purdum is married to Dee Dee Meyers. So, everything he writes is crap to me.

Second, McCain's advisers also hold the distinction of running one of the worst presidential campaigns in the last 50 years, and certainly since Dukakis. They were beyond inept, incapable and horrible. None of them will work on a national campaign in a paid capacity again.(except perhaps for Democrats).

They know that they're toast. As they say, it's a poor craftsman that blames their tools. And to political operatives and hired guns like these buffoons, the candidate is their tool. Their mismanagement and under utilization of Palin, as well as McCain bailout break will be the stuff of political science books in the years to come - it will be the stuff of things to avoid repeating.

[saint]

Alaska's lipstick-wearing pit-bull is a "Little Shop of Horrors."

Yeah, but she's our little shop of horrors, and she's putting a lot of fear into the heads of those who hate America. It's a good thing.

[matthew fuller]

Please, please, Lord, let this senile old fool go away to the Happy Valley Ranch, or whatever they call it there. Or, at least, STFU!

[dirtbiker]

From reading the article, I get the sense that Palin felt all along that the McCain people were nothing more than a bunch of liars and incompetents.

She won 2 elections in Alaska, and from what I saw on the campaign trail, had more “balls” than the entire McCain staff, and more brains than both campaigns combined.

[Berlin_Freeper]

These people go running to Vanity Fair to flap their gums and we are supposed to have respect for them?

McCain deep-sixed his whole campaign staff at least twice and ended up with this bunch of losers.

One more attempt would have put him with the muppets.

[kcvl]

Tucker Eskew

2005 - Tucker Eskew joins US Newswire advisory board

Eskew was brought on board the McCain campaign to "help Palin prepare for her Wednesday night acceptance speech at the GOP convention and for her stump speech as she hits the road, brief her on policy matters, and help her handle the media scrutiny a lifetime in Alaska does not necessarily prepare one for."

[Tublecane]

You lost because John McCain is a weak candidate and almost indiscernable from Obama.

Palin was the only thing that excited conservatives—you know, your BASE. The people that actually vote for you, instead of just calling you wise and great because you are more liberal than other Republicans.

[HapaxLegamenon]

Isn't this the same magazine that had to photo-shop Al Gore in order to “man him up” for their cover?

[jeffc]

You know . . .I have to wonder how the *bleep* did McCain ever win the Repub nomination. He certainly was not my choice, and he doesn't seem to be the choice of most Freepers.

Who's in charge of the Repub party, us normal people, or some big-wigs in a backroom somewhere? I myself was initially for Fred Thompson, and I still think he'd make a good Prez (better than either candidate the Repubs or the Demos selected!). A Thompson/Palin ticket sounds good to me. I may be in the minority, but be that as it may, Reagan lost the nomination in 1976 because most Repubs can't see very far into the future (something they share with the Demos, unfortunately).

Ah, well. Sometimes the nation needs an idiot (like Carter or BO) to show us how stupid we can be sometimes.

[HHFi]

My brother was very active for years in the RNC, working in the very top levels of local and national campaigns. When the first "anonymous" stories came out post-election slamming Palin, he told me he knew exactly where they had to have come from. He said McCain had some people running his campaign whom he had worked with before and knew them to be arrogant idiots. He said he expected them to screw up and then try to find someone else to blame it on, and that was exactly what they did with Sarah Palin. After completely botching her introduction to America, they were now using the bad image they'd let the media concoct of her as ammo for smearing her and blaming her for their own proven incompetence.

So here we go again. If they didn't blame Palin for their screw-ups, who'd be dumb enough to hire them to run another campaign? Other than McCain, that is?