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Nicolle Wallace Mocks Palin Over Iowa Speech: She's Shed Those 'Annoying Handlers'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/26/2015 6:03:56 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

It's official: Nicolle Wallace really doesn't like Sarah Palin. On today's Morning Joe, Wallace—who was Palin's chief handler during the 2008 campaign—took the occasion of Palin's speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit on Saturday to jab at the former veep candidate.

Wallace had been asked to comment on conservative columnist Byron York's panning of Palin's speech as "long, rambling, and at times barely coherent." York's column also passed along criticism of the speech by a number of Iowa Republicans. Wallace said that it was interesting to see York come "full circle," since back in 2008 he had been a staunch Palin defender, blaming the campaign for the way she was packaged. Wallace then doubled down with this dig: "This is who she is. This to me is evidence that she has finally shed last one of those annoying handlers." Reeoorw!

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1 posted on 01/26/2015 6:03:56 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Alive and well and living rent free in their heads.


2 posted on 01/26/2015 6:06:11 AM PST by Don Corleone ("Oil the gun..eat the cannoli. Take it to the Mattress.")
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Reeoorw! Nicolle Wallace swipes at Sarah Palin over Iowa speech. Ping to Today show list.


3 posted on 01/26/2015 6:06:52 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

To be fair, Palin’s speech was a mess. She is officially in Donald Trump territory, making news to hype a TV show.


4 posted on 01/26/2015 6:08:01 AM PST by mcjordansc
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

It was an excellent speech which attacked media hacks like Wallace and Joe.

Pray America wakes


5 posted on 01/26/2015 6:09:29 AM PST by bray (Palin/Cruz to the WH)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I listened to and watched a recording of her Iowa speech. It was perfect Palin. If she went rogue and disobeyed her current “handlers”, then that is wonderful!

What else does Nicole have as a claim to fame except how she and Schmidt destroyed Palin’s VP run.

The press/media is schizophrenic and doesn’t know whether they want SP to run or not. Idiots.


6 posted on 01/26/2015 6:09:33 AM PST by Resettozero
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It WAS "long, rambling, and at times barely coherent." Boring, actually. I came away with no message or theme. Just a bunch of one-liners thrown out to see a reaction. Little applause or real laughter.

Compare her "speech" to Gingrich's and you'll see what a statesmen should sound like.

7 posted on 01/26/2015 6:09:36 AM PST by raybbr (Obamacare needs a death panel.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Nicolle Wallace & Steve Schmidt

GOPe Palin Haters

8 posted on 01/26/2015 6:10:01 AM PST by TexasCajun
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; onyx; FlingWingFlyer; NonValueAdded; Paladin2; Diogenesis; SharpRightTurn; LUV W; ..

As 2016 race begins, GOP faces its Palin problem (Byron York)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/gop/3250631/posts


9 posted on 01/26/2015 6:10:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Nicole was not on John McCain’s side in 2008.


10 posted on 01/26/2015 6:11:21 AM PST by jimfree (In November 2016 my 14 y/o granddaughter will have more quality exec experience than Barack Obama)
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To: jimfree

She’s probably the one who told her to go pick out a wardrobe and charge it to the campaign.


11 posted on 01/26/2015 6:13:23 AM PST by bray (Palin/Cruz to the WH)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
sniff-sniff-—smells like jealousy.
12 posted on 01/26/2015 6:15:13 AM PST by JPG (The GOPe will always find a way to surrender)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; SunkenCiv; TexasCajun; onyx; JPG; bray; Abbeville Conservative; ...
Thank You fro the Ping SunkenCiv!

Ping to Sarah's Awesome List!

And Lets see how many on the "Right" Share Nichole Wallace's.... Concerns...

And Steve Schmidt can go shove a Spear up is Ass >:(


13 posted on 01/26/2015 6:17:19 AM PST by KC_Lion (Build the America you want to live in at your address, and keep looking up.- Sarah Palin)
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To: Resettozero
What else does Nicole have as a claim to fame except how she and Schmidt destroyed Palin’s VP run.

They were trying to package her into standard beltway. They should have just let her be herself, an American original.

14 posted on 01/26/2015 6:20:21 AM PST by oldbrowser (We have a rogue government in Washington)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
On today's Morning Joe, Wallace...

Pretty much says it all. Nicolle you are so over.

15 posted on 01/26/2015 6:20:22 AM PST by McGruff (We have met the enemy and they are our own party.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The more personal the attack, the more worried they are.

And for the record, Wallace is a jealous bitch, but remember she also earns a good living by saying stuff like this. If she had nothing but praise for Palin, who’d hire her?


16 posted on 01/26/2015 6:22:35 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Nicolle Wallace was part of the team that led a losing, nay disasterous, presidential campaign.

Why should she be accorded any credibility?


17 posted on 01/26/2015 6:26:04 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
I understood her speech very well. It's they who are incoherent.

Just like a liberal. What specific aspects didn't she understand?

18 posted on 01/26/2015 6:27:26 AM PST by onedoug
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To: governsleastgovernsbest; netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; ...

I’d like to take a moment and point out how unprofessional Nichole Wallace is behaving.

She was a former ‘handler’ for Sarah Palin, in the 2008 campaign. Therefore, she was privvy to a lot of private and confidential information.

Yet, in 2014, she expresses she does not like Palin, and mocks her.

This is unprofessional. It was unprofessional when Gary Aldrich did it to Clinton; it is unprofessional when Nicholle Wallace does it to Palin.

A mark of a true professional is to refrain from comment for the ONE PERSON you worked for. There are 7,999,999,999 people you can still comment about and mock. Just leave YOUR charge out of it.

I would run, not walk, if she was ever presented to me as MY handler.


19 posted on 01/26/2015 6:34:05 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: Arm_Bears
More disgusting smears from Team 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."


"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?"



20 posted on 01/26/2015 6:35:18 AM PST by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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