Agreed.
We know there were plants undermining Palin in 2008—and could Romney’s incompetence in 2012 all really just be attributed to that either?
The practice of pulling in rival GOPe staff from other campaigns as the nominee emerges is IMO fraught with danger.
Yes it is. And you can go all the way back, at the least, to that supposedly incriminating memo from a politician coming out during the controversy over Terri Schiavo being dehydrated to death. The one that, I believe, discussed Republican strategy on the issue. As if politicians on both sides of any public tragedy don’t have papers that go into their strategies on how to deal with the tragic situation. “Talking points” are part of their leadership.