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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Sure, we’ll just discount all her accomplishments to date.
Her successful tenure as Alaska’s governor. Her successful trimming of the oil company power in Alaska.
We’re remake her in Couric’s image, right???????????
It’s been noted that Romney’s people may be involved in this nastiness. I wonder if Huckabee might be as well. He’s got a smooth, controlled persona, but you don’t know what’s going on underneath. (He’s a preacher, and this isn’t uncommon for them.)
Ok, I know some of you are going to not like what I’m about to say.
But there is conventional wisdom that says that how one runs a campaign is a pretty good indicator of how one will run their administration.
And if the way McCain ran his campaign is any indication of how he would have governed as President, then we just may have dodged a bullet by having Obama win. Had McCain won, the Republican brand probably would have been damaged beyond repair. At least now, we get to live to fight another day.
McCain’s campaign was infested with traitors and former clinton hacks.
McCain was SO relieved when he lost. And obama campaigned as if he knew he’d win.
We are the ones that count regarding Palin. She knows we are behind her. I hope she stays with us; because I would like to see her run the country.
Ok so this must be part of what Bill Kristol was talking about on Fox and Friends this morning when he called Wallace and Schmidt paranoid and delusional or something to that effect. He mentioned something like this. He says they took the stuff because they wanted to know what he was saying about them. He was defending Palin.
Hmmm...you raise a good point. Guilty.
Joan of Arc
Sarah of AK
Sarah Palin will write an autobiography that will include this campaign. It won’t be good for McLiberal and his RINO campaign staff.
When Michael Jordan entered the NBA, he already had some pretty impressive accomplishments. It still took him seven years to win a championship.
Just because Palin has enormous talent doesn't mean she is ready for a national campaign. Even Obama had two years campaigning under his belt. Sarah was thrown into the spotlight day #1. She did great. She will do better when she has proper preparation and practice.
During the campaign, when i watched the rally’s, i actually found myself hoping that Sarah was doing it alone and hoping Mccain was not there....and when they did do joint rally’s, i turned it off as soon as she was finished. I honor and respect his service in Vietnam, but im sorry...he was just too old and it really showed at times. I talked to friends in California and they all told me he “creeped” them out....sorry..he was just an all around terrible choice.
guaranteed the only way they will become famous. Start in the US Senate.
It needed to be larger.....
Maybe he got a hold of the democrat play book....
If I had any artistic ability I’d like to make an editorial cartoon of Sarah trying to drag McCain over a finish line, with an anvil tied to his leg, while he points a gun up at the person dragging him. The only reason I voted for McCain was Sarah.
From everything I have read, Randy Scheunemann was exposing campaign aides that were trying to sabotage Sarah Palin.
Apparently, he was fired and McCain rehired him. At least, that is what I am getting from the reports. Either way, there was some real back biting going on and I am sure McCain’s campaign suffered for it.
It would also explain the swift and unrelenting attacks that hit Palin from the start. Apparently, these aides did not like her from the onset and acted accordingly. May the truth prevail.
Another story lays out that McCain’s camp is protecting N. Wallace, who really was trashing Palin, set up Palin with the Couric interviews, and basically was a back-stabbing RINO b###h.
Gee, McLame backing the RINO over the conservative, the truth be damned? I was willing to vote for McCain/PALIN over the Obamanation, but now that he’s botched the campaign, is trashing Palin, and is protecting those RINOs on his staff who set Palin up, I can happily say the following: GO TO H### McLAME!!!
Makes you wonder if McCain really wanted to win.
McCain is a dedicated Republican. He’s also a Conservative in name only. McCain has made a career of tossing conservative values under the bus when he determined it suited his needs. I voted for him on Nov. 4th, but not with alot of glee.
He should be honored for his service to our nation based upon his time in the US Navy, and what he endured as a POW. He should be respected for his service to Arizona as a US Senator. However, I cringe when he speaks about being a foot soldier in the Reagan Revolution. Yes, he may be a foot soldier, but he never got promoted above E-3 if his record is reviewd objectively. He is certainly unworthy of any accolade that promotes him as any kind of true leader of conservatism - he simply is not.
McCain’s lack of true belief and faith in conservative values is what cost him this election, not Gov. Palin. REAL conservative would not have ever supported the bail out bill. True conservatives would never suggest that man-made global warming is a real thing, thus the whole cap and trade issue would also be unworthy of consideration. True conservatives would never agree to the limits on free speech that McCain-Feingold imposed. True conservatives would never have been forced into protecting our borders, such a thing should be as natural as breathing. Mccain has opposed tax cuts, he’s even propsed taxing health care benefits at work...how in heaven is that conservative?
McCain almost seemed happy to have lost, not an attitude I like to see in those I am looking to vote into positions of leadership.
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