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McCain Admits Campaign Tensions Between Palin, Aides
Washington Post ^
| 10/11/2009
| Garance Franke-Ruta
Posted on 10/11/2009 8:23:33 AM PDT by Saije
Former presidential candidate John McCain (R-Ariz.) acknowledged on CNN's State of the Union Sunday that tensions flared during his campaign between senior strategist Steve Schmidt and those allied with his running mate, then-Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
"With a high-pressure situation, there's always tensions that develop within campaigns," McCain said in a video excerpt posted online. "And there were clearly tensions between Steve Schmidt and people in the Palin camp."
Schmidt has recently become a vocal public critic of Palin, predicting that a presidential run by her in 2012 would prove "catastrophic" for the Republican Party. McCain did not criticize Palin and called her an overall asset to his campaign for whom he still has affection.
"There are fundamental facts ... that cannot be denied," McCain said. "When we selected or asked Sarah Palin to be my running mate, it energized our party. We were ahead in the polls, until the stock market crashed. And she still is a formidable force in the Republican Party."
"And I have great affection for her," he continued. "Did we always agree on everything in the past? Will we in the future? No."
(Excerpt) Read more at voices.washingtonpost.com ...
TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008veep; election; mccain; palin; tension
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To: Cedric
101
posted on
10/11/2009 10:15:18 AM PDT
by
chiefqc
To: Cedric; rabscuttle385
“There is no way Sarah Palin will rip McCain or anyone on his campaign staff in her forthcoming book. “
Mark this down as the only time I may agree with you, Cedric. Sarah contributing recently to McCain and Graham’s campaigns makes one wonder if she will ever trash their policies. She’s so much better than that and it was a bad mistake.
102
posted on
10/11/2009 10:16:22 AM PDT
by
AuntB
(If the TALIBAN grew drugs & burned our land instead of armed Mexican Cartels would anyone notice?)
To: bray
"Steve Schmidt is the Walter Mundale Bob Shrum of the Repub Party."
There. Fixed that for you.
- JP
103
posted on
10/11/2009 10:32:06 AM PDT
by
Josh Painter
("Government cannot make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise." - Sarah Heath Palin)
To: Saije
104
posted on
10/11/2009 10:42:27 AM PDT
by
Clyde5445
(Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
To: SolidWood
McCain is such a tool of the media. Go Sarah!
105
posted on
10/11/2009 10:44:20 AM PDT
by
prairiebreeze
(Barack Obama: Worst. President. Ever.)
To: chiefqc
Then you shouldn't have made your vacuous statement in the first place.
106
posted on
10/11/2009 10:46:52 AM PDT
by
Cedric
To: Cringing Negativism Network
Sounds like he did stand up for her.
107
posted on
10/11/2009 10:49:21 AM PDT
by
Tribune7
(I am Joe Wilson!)
To: Tijeras_Slim
We were ahead in the polls, until
I cravenly voted for the bailout.Fixed a little more ;-)
(good job T_S!)
108
posted on
10/11/2009 10:57:21 AM PDT
by
NordP
(Democrats: Break the Law (like Bill) ... Not The Rules (like Joe) !!!)
To: Cringing Negativism Network
I’m just glad he did something!
109
posted on
10/11/2009 10:57:58 AM PDT
by
NordP
(Democrats: Break the Law (like Bill) ... Not The Rules (like Joe) !!!)
To: Will88
Ronald Reagan’s short list of prospective running mates included Howard Baker, William Simon, Jack Kemp, Richard Lugar, Paul Laxalt, and George Bush. There was also a cockamamie prospect deal to choose Ford, but it fell apart. Kemp would have been the perfect running mate for the Gipper. He had legislative and executive experience, was from New York (west-east balance) and was a conservative (at least more conservative than Bush or Ford!)that the moderate wing of the GOP would not have opposed. Kemp was a pro football quarterback that everyone liked. Like Reagan, Kemp was an optimist, and Kemp shared Reagan's vision for the nation. GHW Bush didn't even know what a vision was. - JP
110
posted on
10/11/2009 10:58:53 AM PDT
by
Josh Painter
("Government cannot make you happy or healthy or wealthy or wise." - Sarah Heath Palin)
To: AuntB
One also wonders why one would call into further question ones already suspect legitimacy by tagging one, pathetic, Appalachian dweeb.
111
posted on
10/11/2009 11:00:03 AM PDT
by
Cedric
To: Cedric
Juan need to go. Fast, and Far. He has never done a thing for the Pubbies, and very little for the Senate. John begone.
112
posted on
10/11/2009 11:03:59 AM PDT
by
BooBoo1000
(Some times I wake up grumpy, other times I let her sleep/)
To: Cedric
113
posted on
10/11/2009 11:07:42 AM PDT
by
chiefqc
To: Lancey Howard
Thats what I thought... Get therapy. Lol, you continue your unbroken string of posts which show no knowledge of the subject, and no ability to contribute anything but inane one-liners, conspiracy kookiness, and personal insults.
114
posted on
10/11/2009 11:25:07 AM PDT
by
Will88
To: chiefqc
Oh, my goodness, all caps.
115
posted on
10/11/2009 11:46:26 AM PDT
by
Cedric
To: Cringing Negativism Network
Bush was great as C I C and his support for the military. After that he stunk......but he never said he was conservative, just a compassionate conservative...I never could figure out what that was then I had a Eureka moment...It meant social liberal......D- on domestic policy. A as commander in chief...F in freedom of speech, F in balls when it came to what the democrats wanted...
But in being a decent human being a A- I don't think he likes conservatives nor does his lovely wife Laura...but she was a great first lady...
I really didn't have much respect for him in defending himself against the lies told about him, so I quit defending him also. If he didn't care, I didn't either...
To: Cedric
Wow, I’m impressed nothing gets by you.
117
posted on
10/11/2009 12:06:20 PM PDT
by
chiefqc
To: Will88
Regardless of all your masturbating about "real legal and technical requirements (reserve requirements to support loans by banks and investments by investment firms) that were said to have reached crisis points because of the toxic assets represented by blah blah blah", it was
six weeks before the freaking election - - not two years, or one year, or even three months earlier (or later) - - but,
six.. weeks... before... the presidential election, when Henry Paulson burst out of the White House and announced that Congress needed to give him a blank check for a trillion dollars "
by Monday" or the entire world economy would go into a catastrophic meltdown the likes of which has never before been seen.
Washington DC was in complete panic mode... McCain suspended his campaign and even asked out of the debate... bleary-eyed politicians were emerging from hastily called meetings, looking grim... Congress went into emergency session.
Bunky, if you think the timing of this announcement by Paulson six weeks before the presidential election! was no big surprise, and everybody knew there was trouble brewing, and "real legal and technical requirements (reserve requirements to support loans by banks and investments by investment firms) that were said to have reached crisis points because of the toxic assets represented by blah blah blah", was sheer coincidence, then you're a buffoon.
Have a nice life.
To: Cedric
Oh I bet she'll address her disagreements with his staff, as as she already has. The media will make it out as a 'rip'. She will leave McCain alone.
But she will address it. Bet.
119
posted on
10/11/2009 12:20:30 PM PDT
by
rintense
(Senior Marketing / IT / UX architect unemployed and looking for work. Freepmail me if you have leads)
To: SolidWood
Thanks for the ping.
I see by some of the comments on this thread, some of the
Marxist Obama supporters and those who hope we lose the war
are showing their stupidity as usual.
There are many areas of disagreement with McCain but at least he doesn’t hate America as Obama does, and would not have had dozens of outright Marxists around him as advisors.
McCain has a son in the Marines who has served in Iraq and another, a grad of the Naval Academy and at flight school
now.
Those on FR who are so thankful that Obama won are either themselves Marxist trolls or children who still live in fantasy land.
120
posted on
10/11/2009 12:22:20 PM PDT
by
SoCalPol
(Reagan Republican for Palin 2012)
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