Posted on 11/14/2009 1:44:53 PM PST by rabscuttle385
A former top adviser and spokeswoman to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign is pushing back against comments reportedly made by Sarah Palin in her new book.
Nicolle Wallace tells CNN that Palin's account of an ill-fated interview with CBS's Katie Couric during the 2008 presidential campaign is not true.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Palin may or may not be Presidential material.
But if her book exposes the corrupt RINOs and starts a house cleaning of the party, then she would have done Conservatism a big favor.
Nicolle Wallace and Steve Schmidt started covering their asses long before the election ended. Knowing how the media hates Sarah, they decided that if they lost, they would make her the scapegoat. Typical tactic, not a shock, I could have seen it coming a mile away
Of course Nicolle lies... like she did (anonymous source... cough cough) about the “wardrobegate”.
Indeed. She and Wallace don’t like each other, and my guess it is because Wallace double-crossed Palin, and Palin is no one to cross.
Schmidt and Wallace are vampires living off the blood of candidates. They had to scapegoat her in order to keep selling their wares to other pols. No one is altogether clean, but my guess is that Palin;s main fault was trusting people who 1) did not want her to be the candidate, 2) were shocked by the way she overshadowed the presidential candidate and 3) want to conceal the way they failed to respond to the situation after September 15. Probably they had written off McCain already and were just looking for an exit to the next job. Wonder when Schmidt first made contact with Romney?
Most of the comments on the CNN blog are from Libs. Have you ever noticed how much funnier and clever we are? They are the most, boring, vitriolic bunch of whiners I’ve ever seen. I left a comment too and told them that if the number and length of the responses are an indicator, Sarah has “gotcha’d’ them again. It really doesn’t matter who said what and when in the exchange between her and Wallace. What’s worth noting is that Sarah drives the left stark raving mad. A former lib friend of mine frothed at the mouth whenever I brought up her name. Same with Rush! Too funny. GO CUDA!
CNN CYA. Zero credibility.
I’m waiting to see if she takes responsiblilty for anything-— so far all the excerpts focus on her putting blame on others. She was clearly in over her head and I don’t see that as a bad thing, as long as she acknowledges it and demonstrates she learned some valuable lessons. Not being a polished politician is refreshing, but being a dense one isn’t.
I agree! I keep waiting for Nicolle Wallace and the rest of McLaims campaign staff to take responsibility for the disasterous way they treated Sarah!
Hey Nicole, have those clothes you ordered to be bought for Sarah and her family, and were never worn by them, been returned to the stores yet? If not, you sure wasted a lot of campaign dollars!
If her every waking moment was being choreographed by the McCain campaign, what responsibility did she have? She’d never run in a national campaign before; maybe she thought at first, that this was how it was done. When she decided to start doing things the way she wanted to do them, the staffers started trashing her, anonymously, in the media. She had no control over what they were saying, and obviously McCain didn’t either.
Indeed. This may be her sole mission all along. Write a tell-all book. Make a bunch of money. Raise a bunch of money. Get a bunch of RINO's kicked out of the party. Go back to AK and live happily ever after.
What would one expect coming from Wallace, the Saboteur?
AMEN!
AMEN!
AMEN!
I can't help but notice all these "deniers", whether it be Nicolle Wallace, Steve Schmidt or somebody else, don't bother setting the record straight. They just simply say Sarah's wrong.
Why not tell us who did set up the Couric interview and why? Why not tell us who did set up the clothes purchase and why? Why not tell us who did keep Sarah from going to Michigan and from speaking to the press on the plane and why?
Ohhhhhhhh....I know why.
Because then they would have to admit everything Palin said is true!
We can't have that.
From you response, you must agree with me that she was clearly in over her head.
I guess she can start by taking responsibility for NOT taking responsibility for how she was used, if that was the case. What, is the next hero of the GOP going to be a victim of circumstance? No, thank you.
Wallace’s gripes, and Schmidt’s noted in a FR post a few minutes later than this one, obviously have a potential rival candidate’s mitts all over them. This type of weasely undercutting of potential rivals, a favorite sport of both Romney and the Huckster, will frankly make it difficult to support either of them if they wind up being the ultimate GOP nominee. Maybe it’ll finally be time to throw away my vote and vote Libertarian.
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