Posted on 11/05/2008 8:22:28 PM PST by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
The anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin by blabbermouth McCain aides who are leaking to Fox News is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
Allah’s got the vid clip of a report citing unnamed McCain staffers accusing Palin of lacking, in Carl Cameron’s words, “knowledgeability.”
At least all the Hollywood and Manhattan Palin-haters were willing to sign their names and put their faces on their attacks.
Let’s assume the rumor-mongers are telling the truth for a moment. Who does it damn more: Sarah Palin or McCain and his vetters who green-lighted her for the vice presidential nomination? Don’t need an Ivy League degree to figure that one out.
Sarah Palin worked her heart out. She energized tens of thousands to come out who would have otherwise stayed home. She touched countless families. I didn’t agree with everything she said on the campaign trail. But two fundamental conservative stands she took mattered greatly to me: She vigorously defended the Second Amendment and the sanctity of life more eloquently in practice than any of the educated conservative aristocracy.
And she did it all with a tirelessness and infectious optimism that defied the shameless, bottomless attempts by elites in both parties to bring her and her family down.
Shame on the smearers who don’t have the balls to show their faces.
Thank you, Sarah Palin. Thank you for stepping up the plate and serving your country.
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More: Ace of Spades is %^&* spitting mad:
Here’s a story these staffers tell: Sent to collect Palin from a hotel, she greeted them, straight from the shower (running late, I guess ) dressed (scandal!) only in a bathrobe (presumably a very thick hotel bathrobe).
These staffers called that “uncommon” — Cameron delighted in the word to give it the sound of “whorish, unprofessional.”
Heh, assholes? She had to open the door and had just gotten out of the shower. Did you want her to use her magical powers of telekinesis to open the door for you?
So is RedState, which announces an accountability project.
Hey, double-bacon genius burger, if an unnamed source says she doesn’t know that a bicycle has two wheels, or that she doesn’t know there are caribou in Alaska, are you going to believe that, too?
Thanks for your response.
Palin was a breath of fresh air. She certainly was one of us. I don’t think the media will ever allow her to get close to DC again unless she forces her way in as a US Senator.
Then all of a sudden they’ll discover gravitas.
a. Who is and was more unpopular than George Bush? The Dem controlled congress!!
b. Where are the worst states, in terms of high taxes and high deficits? The states with Dem majorities in state legislatures and sometimes with Dem governors.
c. In spite of the fact that the economy is doing less well across the nation, where is it doing worse? Again, the answer is: in states with Dem majorities in the state legislature and sometimes with Dem governors.
d. Who did Sarah Palin attract, beyond her own conservative base? Moderates and independents who understood a., and/or b. and/or c.
Who should John McCain have centered his campaign against:
a. Congress and b.the liberal policies in the failing liberal states as an example of the failed approach Obama wants to take to Washington.
It’s not Palin’s fault that that is not what McCain did.
McCain didn’t do it because, unlike Obama he does not have an underlying philosophical approach to economics, thus in states like Ohio, Indiana and Pennsylvania he had no approach to speaking directly to and identifying with what ails their own state - the Dems that are like Obama. THAT was not Palin’s fault!!!!!!!!
If McCain supporters think Palin lost him a few moderate votes, they are ignoring that she kept most of the conservative base for him, and prevented what would otherwise have been a landslide against him.
I think another big error/problem for McCain was some GOP states’ organization leadership, like in Florida, that simply failed their entire state party along with bringing timid support for McCain to the task. One friend in Florida who is an officer in a county GOP organization said they felt the governor and the McCain campaign were not coordinating at all. Again, from a state Bush and the GOP won in 2000 and 2004, that was not Palin’s fault.
You are probably right, but it was being talked all over including Fox News & Rush Limbaugh. A rumor is only a rumor until it is proven wrong. That is why rumors are so insidious.
the republican party doesn’t get it. they no longer represent conservatives and dems have the liberals. that leave no one to vote republican.
I think it is coming from the McCain campaign staff trying to find a scapegoat for the horrible loss on tuesday. Personally I don’t believe it. But like I said above, it was all over the news & talk radio today. More material for Tina fey on SNL.
Well, let’s not give it crecence, and let’s support Governor Palin. She is a conservative and a reformer, and that’s what we need now.
I’ve had it with these jerks. Its not enough they collaborate with our political enemies, they have infiltrated our side and are doing the lib’s work for them.
PALIN 2012!!!
Why is all of this blabbering not considered a breach of contract? Don’t these people sign some sort of confidentiality clause? If not, why not?
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Just had a tip from a max McCain donor who called their office to find out if McCain would defend Palin. He gave his name and explained he had donated the max, establishing he deserved some amount of customer service.
"That person," this idiot insisted, "has already been fired."
"You mean Randy Sheunemann? He wasn't the one smearing her, he was the one defending her."
"You don't understand," the guy "arrogantly" responds (characterization from source), "He's been fired. It's been handled."
"You don't seem to understand. Sheunemann is not the person smearing Palin," my guy says again.
"Look," the guy says, becoming irritated on top of being arrogant, "Senator McCain cannot step out and defend Palin every single time someone says something bad about her."
"Can he do it once?"
Hang up.
He called back to get the guy's name. He got hung up on again.
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... and that's how the John McCain campaign stands up for the one individual solely responsible for his not ending up electorally (and humiliatingly) routed, 49 states to 1.
No honor.
None what. so. EVER.
self bump
I've been thinking about this since our discussion the other night and I had decided that no, it is not really believable that she does not know Africa is a continent rather than a country.
But then she came out with this quote could leave people with the impression that while she knows Africa is a continent, she also thinks there is a country of "Africa":
"“So, no, I think that if there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about Nafta, and about the continent versus the country when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context,” Ms. Palin said. “And that’s cruel and it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, it’s unprofessional, and those guys are jerks, if they came away with it taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news. It is not fair and not right.”" - link
Maybe she was just being a little careless but you would think she would not want to add fuel to the fire at this point.
(Hopefully I'm not being a cruel, mean-spirited, immature, unprofessional jerk by pointing this out.)
No, but you're making it pretty clear that you don't have a solid grasp on what the phrase "taken out of context" means.
The folks at National Review have been demolishing these despicable attacks on the governor. See here and here. On the bright side, I don't buy the line that these rumors come from the Romney camp, because the only way that could be true is if Carl Cameron was so dumb he couldn't tell the difference between a Romney aide and a McCain aide. Plus, there's this.
Let's not be suckers. This is about a batch of RINO jerks trying to save their rep, and if the brain power they're using to make these stories palusible is any indication, we could have won this thing if they had brains bigger than a ping pong ball.
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