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Palin E-mails Show Infighting With Staff
CBS News ^ | July 1, 2009 | Scott Conroy & Susshannah Walshe

Posted on 07/01/2009 5:51:41 PM PDT by Al B.

Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated then Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had become with the manner in which top McCain campaign aides were handling her candidacy. The e-mails, obtained exclusively, also highlight the power struggle and thinly veiled acrimony that pervaded the relationship between Palin and the campaign's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt.

The episode in question began when an investigative report published on the left-leaning Web site Salon.com raised questions about Palin's relationship with members of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) when she was mayor of Wasilla. The AIP's platform calls for a vote giving Alaskans the option to secede from the United States. It had already been widely known that Todd Palin was a registered member of the AIP from 1995 to 2002 and that Governor Palin had taped a recorded greeting at the party's 2008 convention.

On the morning of Oct. 15, Palin was aboard her campaign jet and en route to New Hampshire when she happened to catch a disparaging CNN segment that touted the Salon.com story, complete with a provocative graphic at the bottom of the screen reading, "THE PALINS AND THE FRINGE."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; gop; nicollewallace; palin; romneybot; romneybots; romneyhatespalin; steveschmidt; waronsarah
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To: carcraft

Gov. Palin just did two live unedited interviews about two weeks ago. One was with Matt Lauer of NBC and on the same day on CNN w/ Wolf Blitzer. Gov. Palin smoke Lauer and did a excellent job on the other one. The subjects were Her gas line and Letterman and O policies.


41 posted on 07/01/2009 7:05:43 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: "I told you so")
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To: rlmorel

And can you imagine how she’ll perform when she’s not suffering from post-partum depression?


42 posted on 07/01/2009 7:07:03 PM PDT by Oztrich Boy (Competent small-government conservative = close enough for government work)
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To: Al B.

They have really declared war on her. This is incredible.


43 posted on 07/01/2009 7:07:32 PM PDT by Deb (Beat him, strip him and bring him to my tent!)
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To: Oztrich Boy
This was a Photoshop I did of Palin talking with President Uribe of Columbia...:)


44 posted on 07/01/2009 7:11:38 PM PDT by rlmorel ("The Road to Serfdom" by F.A.Hayek - Read it...today.)
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To: Al B.; SolidWood; SoCalPol

Yet another hit on Governor Palin. Schmidt went and dug up all the old emails and is now releasing them to try and hurt her. He’s a scumbag of the lowest sort.


46 posted on 07/01/2009 7:20:55 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Al B.

I understand your concern about internal e-mails. I don’t know if you remember right after the election the interviews Gov. Palin gave but she eluded to most of the mishandling but would not name names. Well now we know.


47 posted on 07/01/2009 7:21:46 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: "I told you so")
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To: Al B.

Yep, they’re obviously escalating the campaign to knock Governor Palin down and Schmidt is involved up to his eyeballs.


48 posted on 07/01/2009 7:25:59 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin is a smart missile aimed at the heart of the left!)
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To: Al B.

What I saw in the e-mails was minor quibbling that I’m sure was pretty mild compared to what must go on in many campaigns.

If this is the best they’ve got - then they’ve got nuthin’


49 posted on 07/01/2009 7:26:17 PM PDT by Scotswife
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To: Al B.
Palin was right. The campaign didn't effectively handle it.

David Axelrod and his boy Ethan Winner were astroturfing the lie that Palin was a secessionist. They should have been taken to the woodshed.

Not that CBS News would do anything to enlighten the public.

50 posted on 07/01/2009 7:27:05 PM PDT by GVnana
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To: popdonnelly
McCain lost because the economy went in the tank. Simple as that. But having said that, his campaign was still in most respects bad.

I wish it was that simple. I firmly believe that if McCain, or at least someone he would listen to, had any clue on the economy they could have buried Obama. If McCain had come out and said the problems with the economy were all the governments fault he could have forced Obama to defend voting for Bush's 'stimulus package'.

Unfortunately, all McCain could manage was his weak and infuriating "Wall Street Greed" line.

51 posted on 07/01/2009 7:35:29 PM PDT by Pan_Yan (All gray areas are fabrications.)
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To: Scotswife

Spot-on. This is very mild stuff, really. It might have been news if Palin kept at it and circumvented Schmidt. She did not-—but quere why if was that a staffer could overrule the candidate?


52 posted on 07/01/2009 8:24:36 PM PDT by SallyH ( wit)
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To: carcraft

You need to see the DVD John Zigler has out Media Malpractice which exposes what Couric and Gibson really did and the editing of the interviews.
Also at that time she was under the directive during the interview of the McCain people


53 posted on 07/01/2009 8:26:23 PM PDT by SoCalPol (Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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To: Al B.
OK freepers, help me out here. I read the entire article. I disagree w/ Palin on the topic of discussion. I think Schmitd's advice on the matter was sound.

Is the low life media trying to attack her still? Yes. But in this instance, provided the key issues are correct, this exchange suggests that she has judgement problems.

I like Palin, but I'm on the fence as far as a potus run and this article is not helping me out (yes, I know that's the point, thanks) but if the write up is accurate, that doesn't matter to me.

54 posted on 07/01/2009 8:44:35 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: SouthWall

www.teamsarah.org


55 posted on 07/01/2009 9:02:34 PM PDT by CARepublicans (www.teamsarah.org)
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To: Al B.

They will never take her out. I actually believe she relishes the fight. Sarah Palin has no quit in her.


56 posted on 07/01/2009 9:08:46 PM PDT by jla
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To: rlmorel
Going to Michigan would have been a bold move, given how the Democrats disqualified Michigan from the election.

Whether it was a brilliant strategy or dumb luck, when the Democrats disqualified Michigan for moving their primary up, they avoided having to debate the reasons why the auto economy was failing, and what culpability the Democrat former rising-star governor Jennifer Granholm played in that. Remember, it was McCain who told Michigan voters to "get over it, the jobs aren't coming back," not the Democrats who created the situation.

If Palin had gone back there during the general campaign, she would have forced that debate that never happened during the primaries.

-PJ

57 posted on 07/01/2009 9:18:09 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (This just in... Voting Republican is a Terrorist act!)
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To: StarFan; Dutchy; alisasny; BobFromNJ; BUNNY2003; Cacique; Clemenza; Coleus; cyborg; DKNY; ...
Yet another hit on Gov. Palin...

Excerpt:

The tension between Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and top McCain campaign aides in the closing days of last fall's presidential campaign is elucidated in a profile in the new issue of Vanity Fair. CBS News' Scott Conroy and special contributor Shushannah Walshe, who are writing a book about Palin, reveal just one example of how the mutual frustrations went even further than what has been disclosed so far...

58 posted on 07/01/2009 9:23:16 PM PDT by nutmeg (Sarah and Todd Palin and the Deadliest Catch captains should run this country)
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To: nutmeg

Thanks for the ping!


59 posted on 07/01/2009 9:43:34 PM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Abbeville Conservative; sleepwalker; Roses0508; feedback doctor; LibLieSlayer; ...

Palin PING!

Anyone on or off the Palin ping, write me.

...

There can be no doubt that this POS (Piece of Schmidt) is stirring the schmidt... eh sh*t for some paymaster. Is it a certain RINO or for Obumbum?

60 posted on 07/01/2009 10:14:18 PM PDT by SolidWood (Down with the islamic regime! Freedom for Iran!)
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