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McCain official responds to Palin charge (McCain calls Palin a liar, blames campaign finance rules)
MSNBC ^ | 2009-11-12

Posted on 11/12/2009 5:26:20 PM PST by rabscuttle385

Edited on 11/12/2009 5:39:54 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]

In her new book, according to the Associated Press, Sarah Palin alleges that the McCain campaign gave her a $500,000 bill to pay for the campaign vetting her for the VP nod. She also makes the charge that the McCain camp said they would have paid all the bills had they won, but since they lost, the bills were her responsibility.


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1 posted on 11/12/2009 5:26:23 PM PST by rabscuttle385
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To: lulu16; lmarie373; Abundy; missanne; Victoria Delsoul; 50mm; stockpirate; Eaker; ducdriver; ...

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2 posted on 11/12/2009 5:28:14 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Purge the RINOs! * http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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To: rabscuttle385

It wasn’t 500,000..it was one tenth of 500,000 which is 50,000 and that has already been proven fact. Again, these idiots in the media take exerts from a book and report it as fact. That is NOT what the book says, she specifically writes one tenth of 500,000..good Lord, again with the senior McCain people..hey McCain people, instead of hiding, why dont you come out and SHOW YOURSELVES instead of hiding with this anonymous BS. Your big boys and girls, you can come out of hiding, no one is gonna bite ya


3 posted on 11/12/2009 5:29:09 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: rabscuttle385

Wow, that was a quick response!


4 posted on 11/12/2009 5:29:39 PM PST by NoGrayZone (Where's The Birth Certificate)
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Ummmm, I read it was $50,000.


5 posted on 11/12/2009 5:30:00 PM PST by roses of sharon (A warrior assumes that he is already dead, so he might as well fight.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Where’s the “Aww, geez ...” graphic?


6 posted on 11/12/2009 5:32:38 PM PST by Sister_T (Stealing from the rich to give to the poor is still stealing ... Exodus 20:15)
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To: rabscuttle385

McCain isn’t even a gentleman.


7 posted on 11/12/2009 5:32:44 PM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: rabscuttle385
Ah... those peskyt finance rules, hoisted by your petard there Senator...
8 posted on 11/12/2009 5:33:32 PM PST by taildragger (Palin/Mulally 2012)
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To: rabscuttle385

STOP THE PRESSES! Here’s the new state media template:

McCain - The good guy being wronged by this bitch of a wild woman.

Palin: She just can’t seem to get anything straight, and is clearly not smart enough to succeed in politics.

This one disagreement will have the media whores trying to completely drown out the rest of her book


9 posted on 11/12/2009 5:33:36 PM PST by demkicker (Helping Democrats Become Extinct)
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To: rabscuttle385
The biggest mistake the RINOs ever made was allowing Sarah to be the vice Presidential nominee.

She is going to make them pay, with a vengeance.

I can't wait for blood letting to begin in earnest.

Go Sarah!

10 posted on 11/12/2009 5:33:42 PM PST by Radix (Obama represents CHAINS for posterity.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Sounds to me like Juan McCain and his assorted group of backstabbers can’t get their story straight.


11 posted on 11/12/2009 5:33:45 PM PST by chris37
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To: SolidWood; Sarah Barracuda; DoughtyOne; exit82; mkjessup; stephenjohnbanker; TigersEye; ...
McCain official: Palin claim 'one hundred percent untrue'

"That is one hundred percent untrue," said the McCain official, who would only speak on the condition of anonymity in deference to McCain. "All those bills are from her personal attorney Thomas Van Flein, mostly relating to the Troopergate investigation and other ethics investigations. It is not legal to pay for those investigations out of general election funds, even if the campaign was so inclined."

Anonymous McCain official? LOL. I bet McCain himself was the source of the quote!

12 posted on 11/12/2009 5:34:12 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Purge the RINOs! * http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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Conservative and honorable Palin lies vs Back stabbing RINO McCain lies.

Boy oh boy, that’s a tough one.


13 posted on 11/12/2009 5:35:50 PM PST by Gator113 (Obamba, Reid, Pelosi, the socialist triad.)
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To: rabscuttle385

Let’s not jump to conclusions: the report cites a “senior McCain campaign official”...not McCain.

I gotta believe most of the McCain idjits were Palin haters—but not Juan himself.


14 posted on 11/12/2009 5:36:02 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: rabscuttle385

It clearly said 10% of the 500,000 dollars. Looks like C4P started a bad wrap.
But this dude stepped in it. Would I believe Sarah or a McCain ally?
Absolutely Sarah.


15 posted on 11/12/2009 5:36:08 PM PST by libbylu ( Palin begins from Wasilla not only a campaign, an Iditarod of a crusade ....YEAH!)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Thank you.

More and more it’s becoming obvious that McCain ran one of the most inept campaigns in recent memory.


16 posted on 11/12/2009 5:38:56 PM PST by bigbob
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To: Recovering_Democrat

"Attacking Gov. Palin worked out real well for us. Let's do it again."

"A political party cannot be all things to all people.
It must represent certain fundamental beliefs
 which must not be compromised to political expediency
or simply to swell its numbers."

--  President Ronald Reagan


"We don't intend to turn the Republican Party
 over to the traitors in the battle just ended.
We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged
 to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support.
Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates
wouldn’t make any sense at all.""

--  President Ronald Reagan

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers…
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide…
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
"Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."


The Palmetto Scoop reported: "One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was
the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
… aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw
that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.


Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"These staffers are now out trying to finish her off ….hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."


"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."


Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney


"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

17 posted on 11/12/2009 5:40:09 PM PST by Diogenesis ("Those who go below the surface do so at their peril" - Oscar Wilde)
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To: rabscuttle385

McCain has no honor.


18 posted on 11/12/2009 5:40:33 PM PST by bmwcyle (When do they collect and jail the homeless when they don't buy their health care?)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

One... Hundred... BILLION DOLLARS!

19 posted on 11/12/2009 5:41:02 PM PST by Rome2000 (OBAMA IS A COMMUNIST CRYPTO-MUSLIM)
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Sarah Barracuda: The original website had it right, I followed the link and it was “about 10% of the $500,000. It looks like C4P picked it up wrong.
I do remember from last year some talk about Sarah wanting the campaign to help with some of the legal bills.
All that said, I trust Sarah more than any other pol until proven otherwise.


20 posted on 11/12/2009 5:41:22 PM PST by libbylu ( Palin begins from Wasilla not only a campaign, an Iditarod of a crusade ....YEAH!)
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