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How Her Mind Works (Mark McKinnon on Sarah Palin)
TheDailyBeast.com ^ | 7/6/2009 | Mark McKinnon

Posted on 07/06/2009 4:26:11 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies

A few words about Sarah Palin: She is one of the most fascinating women I have ever met. She crackles with energy like a live electrical wire and on first meeting gets about three inches from your face. Her instant subliminal message is: “I don’t know you very well, but I’m very clear about who I am.” She reeks of moxie and self confidence. And she’s fearless.

Well, she was mostly fearless when I intersected with her. But, she was also a week out from a nationally televised debate with Joe Biden, and she knew she was in trouble. She knew she wasn’t prepared. And she knew it would be difficult, maybe impossible to be ready. And the brief session I witnessed, verified as much and I was convinced the debate would be a disaster. But, despite the crushingly stressful situation in which she found herself, and despite the aching vulnerability, she squared up in her uniquely Palin way and made it clear to all of us in the room that she was going to bear down, get ready, and was not, under any circumstances, going to let John McCain down. But, I frankly thought she would.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: markmckinnon; mckinnon; palin; waronsarah
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1 posted on 07/06/2009 4:26:12 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
Mark McKinnon is a DEMOCRAT! Why ANY Republican eould use him, Steve Schmidt or Nichole Wallace is beyond me!!

P>Half the articles talk about LEAKS.....wonder if McKinnon, the DEMOCRAT, is the LEAKER!

The people that McCain surrounded himself with are LOSERS!!!!!!! Palin is the ONLY WINNER in that circle, and they HATE her for it!

2 posted on 07/06/2009 4:33:39 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy

Didn’t McKinnon say that he would not work for any republican if O was the nominee.

Guess he planted himself as a spy in order to help O and biden.


3 posted on 07/06/2009 4:35:20 AM PDT by Carley (OBAMA IS A MALEVOLENT FORCE IN THE WORLD)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

SARAH PALIN IS THE NEXT MAGGIE THATCHER!!!!


4 posted on 07/06/2009 4:50:53 AM PDT by kenmcg (aS WACKY AS IT MAY)
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To: Carley
Didn’t McKinnon say that he would not work for any republican if O was the nominee.

IIRC, McKinnon said he "would not attack Obama" if he were the candidate. Still a ridiculous position for him to take.

5 posted on 07/06/2009 4:51:20 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies (Obama: "Enough about me, let's talk about you...what do you think of me?")
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
Mark McKinnon says:

"That Mrs. Palin seems quite attractive...for a lady."

/sarc>

Cheers!

6 posted on 07/06/2009 4:53:33 AM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

LOL! Shave him up a little bit and he looks like Karl Rove!

Someone morph those two photos, LOL!


7 posted on 07/06/2009 5:00:27 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: kenmcg

Maggie Thatcher and I sit squarely on top of one another on ‘The Political Compass.’ No wonder I love Sarah so much!

http://www.politicalcompass.org/test


8 posted on 07/06/2009 5:01:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Carley
Yesw he did....he is DISGUSTING, his employee took Bush's PLAYBOOK and gave it to Gore or Kerry...can't remember which.

He ADMITTED he was a DEMOCRAT!!! He was Bush's COMMUNICATIONS guy?? HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH Look how WELL he did.

9 posted on 07/06/2009 5:03:31 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Political Compass is crap. They put Palin in the far authoritarian corner, while Obama is an non-authoritarian centrist! LOL. What a load of!

Also reading their ridiculous analysis of the election they reveal their bias.

10 posted on 07/06/2009 5:07:46 AM PDT by SolidWood (Palin isn't retreating, but taking the fight in another direction.)
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To: grey_whiskers

What’s the name of that movie? I recall that character & his partner were assassins - the name is on the tip of my tongue...and driving me crazy! Eventually both get knocked off. A James Bond movie?


11 posted on 07/06/2009 5:09:47 AM PDT by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: SolidWood

Mckinnon is a panzy. What a big crybaby. I can’t attack Obama. Wimp.


12 posted on 07/06/2009 5:09:54 AM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
Why even post crap like this from traitors?

Mark McKinnon, true to vow, exits McCain team rather than fight Obama

But he's sticking by his vow that if the Democratic candidate was Obama, he would step off the McCain ad team because Obama's election "would send a great message to the country and the world."

13 posted on 07/06/2009 5:15:41 AM PDT by McGruff (Don't explain; your friends don't need it, and your enemies won't believe you anyway)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

I thought it was a picture of ‘Meathead’ from All in the Family!


14 posted on 07/06/2009 5:29:30 AM PDT by madameguinot (Our Father's God to Thee, Author of Liberty)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

By reading the article, McKinnon mentioned Schmidt and Nicole Wallace. He defended Schmidt but not Wallace. Seems like Wallace is the one with the big mouth back during the campaign. Color me surprised.


15 posted on 07/06/2009 5:40:08 AM PDT by GQuagmire
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

“But, cognizant of my pledge not to campaign against Obama because I didn’t want to be the tip of the spear attacking him, which led to my departure from the campaign in June, I was worried that this exercise would inevitably drag me into uncomfortable territory.”

I am now finally convinced that the entire McCain campaign was a mole. And to be frank, either one of two things occurred. Either John McCain is a traitor and ran a “Mole” campaign, or an imbecile who hired nothing but Democrats to run his campaign.

Now I think it’s clearly evident that this man was so concerned about being seen as bi-partisan that he hired a bunch of dems to infiltrate his campaign with the idiocy that all his niceness was going to make them actually do a good job.

Either way, he’s stupid as hell.


16 posted on 07/06/2009 5:42:43 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies

You can tell a lot about someone by the company they keep. McCain is a loser.


17 posted on 07/06/2009 5:43:30 AM PDT by pallis
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To: Carley

Well the fact that he SAID that and McCain hired him to prepare Palin for the debate (and coincedentally who was around her hotel room enough to state “She didn’t even know Africa was a continent”? Hmmm, seems this jacka&& is the one) he probably thought “if they dumb enough to hire me...”


18 posted on 07/06/2009 5:44:51 AM PDT by autumnraine (You can't fix stupid, but you can vote it out)
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To: SonOfDarkSkies
The difference in the person I’d seen just five days earlier and the woman I saw step onto the stage with Joe Biden was a complete transformation.

And other people said she doesn't like to study.

19 posted on 07/06/2009 5:48:38 AM PDT by Right Wing Assault ( Obama, you're off the island!)
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To: SolidWood

Well, of course. It just shows that I’m even MORE Conservative than they want me to be, in spite of their contrived questions. :)


20 posted on 07/06/2009 5:54:03 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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