Posted on 07/01/2009 7:27:15 AM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner
A hard-hitting piece on Sarah Palin in the new Vanity Fair has touched off a blistering exchange of insults among high-profile Republicans over last year’s GOP ticket – tearing open fresh wounds about leaks surrounding Palin and revealing for the first time some of the internal wars that paralyzed the campaign in its final days.
Rival factions close to the McCain campaign have been feuding since last fall over Palin , usually waging the battle in the shadows with anonymous quotes. Now, however, some of the most well-known names in Republican politics are going on-the-record with personal attacks and blame-casting.
William Kristol, the editor of The Weekly Standard and at times an informal adviser to Sen. John McCain, touched off the latest back-and-forth Tuesday morning with a post on his magazine’s blog criticizing the Todd Purdum-authored Palin story and pointing a finger at Steve Schmidt, McCain’s campaign manager.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
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Imagine, moderate Repubs also fear an attractive woman who stands her ground.
I don’t really care what the feuding Republicans are saying about Sarah Palin.
Just dividing the wheat from the chaff...
She’s genuine, and can be genuine, because her core values are set on the rock.
Steve Schmidt should be drummed out of party. I’m sure he would
be an excellent democrat!
McCain's goons spend years smearing Pres Bush after their loss.
Sissified water-boys for the MSM.
Bottom line: McCain never wanted to win.
He almost messed up his plan by inviting SP on the ticket.
Have you seen this yet?
Politico is not a news organization. They are a propaganda outlet for Obama and his Democrat/Marxists. I don’t trust anything they say.
But when Obama crashes and burns, Politico will crash with him.
He admits to being the one. He just thinks that in doing so he wasn't trying to defame her.
Steve Schmidt is an authentic punk.
Palin story sparks GOP family feud (Has war broken out in the GOP?)
Kristol cited a passage in Purdum’s piece in which “some top aides” were said to worry about the Alaska governor’s “mental state” and the prospect that the Alaska governor may be suffering from post-partum depression following the birth of her son Trig. “In fact, one aide who raised this possibility in the course of trashing Palin’s mental state to others in the McCain-Palin campaign was Steve Schmidt,” Kristol wrote.
But Kristol’s charge was seconded by Randy Scheunemann, a longtime foreign policy adviser to McCain who is also close to the Standard editor and was thought to be a Palin ally within the campaign.
“Steve Schmidt has a congenital aversion to the truth,” Scheunemann said. “On two separate and distinct occasions, he speculated about about Governor Palin having post-partum depression, and on the second he threatened that if more negative publicity about the handling of Governor Palin emerged that he would leak his speculation [about post-partum depression] to the press. It was like meeting Tony Soprano.”
and Steve Schmidt's response:
Asked about the accusation, Schmidt fired back in an e-mail: “I'm sure John McCain would be president today if only Bill Kristol had been in charge of the campaign.”
Spoken like the liberal sissy he is.
Hmmm...did a title and keyword search using the article title and nothing came up.
Kristol’s a Republican ?
Another reason to never give money to the Republican party. Instead give it to individual candidates you believe in.
Yep.
They changed the title slightly. No prob.
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