I think he’s trying to push the blame for a failed campaign away from him so it doesn’t affect his income. McCain ran a horrible campaign and they did a terrible job with Palin (example her many different colleges and took longer to graduate. No answer from the McCain camp which is his fault. Reason her parents couldn’t afford to pay for all of college costs so she had to work to pay her own way and had to take breaks to earn money. First college was in Hawaii which they thought was cool but it’s expensive and the weather etc was nothing like they were used to. If they’d explained that it would have appealed to the majority of working Americans, but not the elite who already looked down their noses at her.) The guy is probably also getting some interesting consulting contracts for big bucks. It would be interesting to know who has hired him now and who he has consulting contracts with. The Doctor that the media trotted out to talk about medical reform turned out to have a 300k contract with HHS to do essentially the same thing. While it wouldn’t be the Obama admin there are lots of people out there on the left and on the elite end of the Republican Party who really want her to fail and will do anything to accomplish this just like they tried to do with Clarence Thomas.
Speaking of colleges, it is amazing that the GOP never tried to make hay with Obama’s refusal to discuss his college record. They should have gone after this the way the Dims went after Bush’s air national guard records. Or, to take another tact, McCain could have played off his less than distinguished career at the Naval Academy against Obama’s obvious nerdiness. During the debates when Obama talked about foreign policy, he sounded like some graduate student rattling off talking points he had memorized the night before. McCain sounded much stronger on this but he never put the screws on Obama. So many instances where the GOP used the kid gloves when they could have pointed out his callowness, where the cool mask didn’t cover his ignorance. Furthermore, this demeanor is obviously fake. As Limbaugh told us a year ago, this is not a nice guy: he is cold and he is angry, and he hates to be shone up.