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."
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
LLS
LLS
“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...”
Hit piece and pimping future attack dog book. You are wrong.
LLS
Right now I think that Steve Schmidt is loser. A complete hack.
LLS
“Lib’s hate her thus she has some serious potential politically! : - D”
And RINOs hate her, which is even better!
“I don’t know if I’ll survive another three and a half YEARS of this cr@p.”
NOBODY will survive another 3.5 years. I believe it’s over for America. The first seemingly innocent politically correct act started it; the election of Hussein ended it. We will never have another free election — not that we really had one in ‘08 with ACORN, etc., in the mix.
I know I sound pessimistice, but I’m not giving up the ship! ;)
It would have taken less time and energy to squelch the issue as Sarah demanded, than for Schmidt to fight her about it.
Sarah was a winner in a loser campaign.
She’s President No. 45. The GOP better get on board or get out of the way.
I agree with you on this. I would love to wholeheartedly jump on the Sarah bandwagon, but, in this case it sounds like she was either shading the truth or she just didn’t remember correctly what the AIP was all about. Either way, Schmidt’s advice was sound. On the other hand, this whole article may have intentionally left out key facts.
“Persistence, strength of will and determination always wins in the end.”
She’s all that! :)
ROTFLMAO That's priceless.
This is much ado about nothing, as usual the MSM is trying to throw mud at Sarah Palin. I go back and forth trying to decide whether this is orchestrated by the dims or by the "moderate" republicans in charge of the GOP.
Seems to me that the fix was in for 2008 and Sarah Palin either didn't get the memo or ignored it so she fought to win. If you wanted to throw an electon you couldn't have picked a better canidate than McLame.
McCain was a liberal, his staffers are liberals, we shouldn’t be suprized that McAmnesty and his fellow losers are trashing her, they know she is going to take the party away and these closet liberals will be without a home, Sarah has my vote or I don’t vote period.
I seen the Lauer interview through a link here on FR....she kicked Lauer’s butt!!
Guess what the trigger was? The straw poll results. Once again, I would not be surprised if the ex Romney then McCain aides are behind this.
She did a fabulous job, esp. with Lauer.
Agreed. Sarah and her husband could have made a huge difference in Michigan. Her family has more in common with the working class than McCain or Obama. What a dumb decision by McCain to not let her campaign here. I saw her and John in Grand Rapids, and I’m telling you, that crowd was there for HER.
And the crowds are still there for Gov. Palin. What we are seeing is the real Sarah (interviews).
I think that was a major problem for those McCain weasels from day one....a big part of the reason for the resentment IMO.
Dennis Miller said she's in Obama's melon. She's in a lot of DC melons...LOL.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.