According to these unnamed critics, Palin didn't know which countries are members of NAFTA or that Africa is a continent and not a country! They say that she was ignorant of basic civics. She threw temper tantrums over negative media coverage and refused prep help from campaign aides for the Gibson and Couric interviews. They claim that they wanted to help her prep for these interviews, but she ignored them.
He claims that the fired aide who was rehired was Randy Schuenenman. (But other accounts told us that he was her closest advisor and he was the one who prepped her for the vp debate).
Cameron notes that Palin denies all of these stories. I saw the video of her denying them. She seems like a class act in her behavior there. I just don't get these stories. I find them disturbing in the extreme. Is this just campaign people throwing her under the bus because they have received so much criticism for mishandling her? Is this a cover your ass maneuver or is Palin really that awful?
If she were that awful, you'd think that it would out itself in some small way, but she was in front of tens of thousands of people working rope lines at rallies and we saw no flicker of temper tantrums or even a suggestion of a nasty personality. She always looked like such a happy warrior.
I hope Laura Ingraham has Cameron on her show to get to the bottom of these stories.
She gave an informal press conference today of which they're showing clips. She looks totally relaxed. She has thrown off all the handlers and looks remarkably likeable in everyway. She's such a class act. Take a look at this.
She seems to deflect speculation about 2012 by saying "I couldn't imagine running for national office in 2012" but that won't be held against her if she should decide later.
Meanwhile, Newsweek has the post election hit piece out on her with unnamed campaign aides claiming that she personally went on a spending spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast". Read the rest here
Her aides deny this, and I don't know what to make of it. Leaks are now coming out that McCain didn't like her after all. It's all very perplexing. She is no doubt being blamed for a lot. And perhaps this unnamed source stuff is the final revenge of the Palin-haters. After seeing how shameless these people were in skewing her record in Alaska, I don't know why I should trust them now. She just doesn't strike me as someone who would be a profligate spender with RNC money. And if she did, it strikes me as an example of needing clothes asap. When you're thrust on the national stage, you need to look the part. The media obsessed about Clinton's clothes, and Palin must have known they would do the same to her. Who knows. I am always disappointed to hear something that seems so contrary to everything we already know about a person.
It sounds like someone is trying to frame the narrative with the most lurid soundbytes possible:
“She didn’t know Africa...”
Sounds like static to me, Gov Palin is a rising star in the GOP, nothing can change that fact of life.
I had a very bad feeling that the Noonan and Parker wing of the GOP were going to toss Sarah under the bus, and sure enough they are out in full force today. The simple fact is that Gov. Palin energized the base more than any other VP pick could have, and was probably the only thing that keep the popular vote reasonably close. The power-mad old guard of the GOP can kiss my ass (and a lot of others), because I’m done with them and their incompetence.
This was posted as an excuse to bash Romney, simple as that.
Who on earth will believe anything coming from Newsweek? Only the libtards.
The following paragraph should settle this nasty rumor!
A Palin aide said: “Governor Palin was not directing staffers to put anything on their personal credit cards, and anything that staffers put on their credit cards has been reimbursed, like an expense. Nasty and false accusations following a defeat say more about the person who made them than they do about Governor Palin.”
Then don't believe it, because it's not true. The media just twists people into whichever shape they want them, and everyone falls for it. Disturbing.