[counterpunch]

Accompanying Mrs. Palin to Hong Kong was Randy Scheunemann, the former foreign policy adviser to John McCain, who lost the 2008 election to President Obama.

Just look for it. Every time Palin goes anywhere, she goes with McCain advisors, every time she gives a speech, it's written by McCain speech writers. I started noticing this trend a while back. Palin has never seperated herself from McCain and his people. She is a John McCain-style 'maverick'. She's never claimed to be anything different. She does not, and never has seen McCain and his people as the enemy within. She is firmly rooted in the McCain camp, and the McCain world view. Many people want to see her as something else, just as people wanted to see 0bama as something other than the Rev. Wright, Bill Ayers type he really is.

Go back and follow Palin's journeys since after the election. You will find a McCain link just about everywhere you look.
 

[HiTech RedNeck]

You have the memory retention of a housefly, don’t you.

[April Lexington]

The reality is that the GOP regular hack brigade does this stuff for a living. This is it for them and they show up in droves whenever someone starts looking like a front runner. This is a good sign. Nobody left from the Reagan Administration and Bush is too hot for Palin right now (hot like in political liability). SO, the only available GOP hacks are, unfortunately, McWhatshisname's leftovers. Some are actually quite talented, however. Sarah just needs Rove and a good bottle of Scotch to win this thing. Mitt can eat sh*tt...

[Nextrush]

As has been noted before Randy Scheunemann stood up for Palin when other McCain staff were stabbing her in the back, especially transplanted Romneyites.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

counterpunch:

I told you all about Scheunemann and what he did for Sarah during the campaign, but you completely ignored it. Instead, you chose to throw out the blatant lie that she has surrounded herself with McCain people when she has not. Do you see Steve Schmidt anywhere? Rick Davis? Mark Salter? Nichole Wallace? Anyone else from the campaign besides Scheunemann?

No, she's obviously hired some top professional Conservative guns to help her burnish her credentials for whatever she is going to do in the future.

Sarah Palin begins to build her network of advisors

Scheunemann advising Palin for 'wide-ranging' Hong Kong talk (Politico)

Sources: McCain aide fired for 'trashing' staff

How Internal Battles Divided the McCain and Palin Camps

Palin allies report rising camp tension

Republicans Get on Board (Nicolle Wallace Barf Alert)

You do know that Rush keeps this poster up on his website don't you? He does it for a reason. So, KNOCK IT OFF, TROLL!

Rush Limbaugh: "Sarah Palin could build the Party"