Posted on 11/06/2008 8:31:01 AM PST by Reaganesque
(CNN) — Randy Scheunemann, a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain, was fired from the Arizona senator's campaign last week for what one aide called "trashing" the campaign staff, three senior McCain advisers tell CNN.
One of the aides tells CNN that campaign manager Rick Davis fired Scheunemann after determining that he had been in direct contact with journalists spreading "disinformation" about campaign aides, including Nicolle Wallace and other officials....
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She now has experienced a trial by fire and should be a lot stronger and more wise for it. Now she has a few years to work on her negatives and build upon the loyalty she earned the hard way by taking some of the lowest shots I've ever seen. I hope she uses the time wisely.
I honor McCain for his sacrifice during the Vietnam War. I believe he honors, above all, loyalty and thus he would react harshly to what he considered disloyalty. I have no problem with someone controlling their own staff but my problem with McCain is that I question to what he is loyal. He says he loves the country and I don’t doubt that. But I think he actually might have a higher loyalty to the U.S. Senate than to any other entity and he believes that peace in the Senate is the best way to be loyal to the country at large. But when the Senate is being run by Dem partisans at the expense of the nation, that is a false loyalty. He has run an honorable campaign and will return to accolades in the Senate but he does so at the expense of conservative principles and bedrock American values.
This guy is a Palin supporter, being fired for being a Palin supporter. The guys who are Carl's friends are McCain aides who weren't fired and whom McCain hasn't disavowed to date.
Making RINO Hall of Fame member’s famous appeals to me.
In Florida, I’ll suggest Martinez who voted against drilling and for the bail out.
Senior campaign officials blame Schuenemann specifically for stories about the way Wallace and chief campaign strategist Steve Schmidt mishandled Palin's rollout — stories that the campaign says threw them off message in the critical final weeks of the campaign.
What does this mean?
Making RINO Hall of Fame member’s famous appeals to me.
In Florida, I’ll suggest Martinez who voted against drilling and for the bail out.
Trust me, being fired one week before the end of the campaign is not the real toll exacted here. This Randy guy will neverwork in a GOP campaign again. His reputation (highly valued in hiring campaign staff) is now shot. After enduring months of a grueling national campaign in hopes of a cushy fed job or in hopes of signing on to another campaign using his national experience as a calling card is basically over.
The story is that he defended her by telling to the media about the infighting she was facing in the campaign. He was initially fired, but then was unfired by McCain almost immediately when he found out about it.
Cleared up now, everybody?
I did. And the reporting is vague. See my Post # 27.
But thanks for caring about where I place my head.
Next time she won't have to drag some old white RINO across the finish line. She'll be the one topping the ticket. Watch out all you other contenders. Ya know they call her Sarah Barracuda in Alaska.
John Mccain is not much of a leader,
if he hired these clowns who violate
Reagan's eleventh commandment.
There were stories about Palin being reigned in and not allowed to talk as she wanted to. I’m assuming this was part of that leak.
The leak concerning Palin’s apparent “stupidity” were only released last night by Carl Cameron. These weren’t known leaks until one day ago, and weren’t for being “pro-Palin” in nature, right?
McCain hasn’t fired these people or disavowed their comments, whoever they are. Carl called them, “unnamed McCain sources.”
Well it’s true.
They were going to continue to leak stories about her all important wardrobe and continue to claim she was going ‘rogue’.
So if he was defending her and leaking stories about the way they mishandled her I guess he did throw them off message.
Read the damn story. The person in the story was fired for HELPING PALIN.
This morning Fox News leaked stories from McCain’s staff saying that Palin was “stupid” and giving examples, such as not knowing Africa was a continent, not a country, and not knowing what countries were in North America. I discount these stories as back-biting by RINOs who became her enemies during the campaign. They know that if she is the candidate in 2012 they are out.
And, I recall another President, our 40th, the media liked to label as “stupid.” What I would give to have another 8 years of that brand of stupidity.
LOL!
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