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Palin vs. McCain: Palin Insider Names Names
Regular Folks United ^ | November 6, 2008 | Kerri Houston Toloczko

Posted on 11/06/2008 10:45:00 AM PST by mbraynard

News has been circulating around GOP insiders for weeks that McCain campaign honchos Rick Davis and Steve Schmidt were planning to blame Sarah Palin for McCain’s loss. This was expected to be an effort to punt the blame for their own failures to the side of the ticket that was most popular with the base, attracted the largest rally crowds, and scared the living bejeepers out of the opposing party.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 11thcommandment; 2008; blame; mccain; palin; rickdavis; rinopurge; steveschmidt; waronsarah
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To: beagleone

If he feels this way about her, where is he? He should have spoken up as soon as it started and nipped it, the Fox crap, in the bud. He should demand to know who is doing it and tell them to get lost. His silence is deafening.


461 posted on 11/06/2008 6:22:52 PM PST by curth
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To: luvadavi

There is little doubt that Obama did many illegal things to get elected. It’s up to us to expose them, find the evidence that links him to them, and get his butt out of the White House before he gets to implement his “Final Solution” for America.


462 posted on 11/06/2008 6:24:25 PM PST by beagleone (Sarah Palin for President in 2012. Lets start fundraising ASAP.)
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To: ScottinVA
This is like tying your dog up to the far end of your house; he barks and bays loudly while burglars successfully ransack the contents. You ignored him while he tried to warn you, but you kick the dog anyway because your stuff was stolen.

Good analogy. The sad thing about it is that the dog doesn't try to get revenge, it just tries to please you better next time. It's the "where are they gonna go" syndrome. A dilemma.

463 posted on 11/06/2008 6:26:35 PM PST by TenthAmendmentChampion (Don't blame me, I voted for John McCain and Sarah Palin. Well, for Sarah Palin, anyway.)
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To: curth

How long has it been since this interview on Fox?
Has he been approached by a reporter and asked to comment on the Fox report?
Give the man a day or two to regroup. He may be sidelined with a personal issue, who knows?


464 posted on 11/06/2008 6:31:14 PM PST by beagleone (Sarah Palin for President in 2012. Lets start fundraising ASAP.)
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To: Zhang Fei

Zhang, did McPain’s McCain-Feingold Act work against him in the election campaign? Is it like he cut his own throat?


465 posted on 11/06/2008 6:35:14 PM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: curth
Another thing: Do we need to be more Catholic than the Pope? If you want to know if McCain has done wrong by Palin, look at how Palin is responding!

She is not jumping to conclusions before McCain has had a chance to respond and I think we should not either.

This whole controversy has been played up, stirred up and contrived by the MSM to make us look bad. I don't know why Freepers don't see that.
466 posted on 11/06/2008 6:36:29 PM PST by beagleone (Sarah Palin for President in 2012. Lets start fundraising ASAP.)
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To: TenthAmendmentChampion

Reagan did not remove old liberal holdovers. He hired James A. Baker, III, and Michael Deaver, who undercut him for years afterwards.


467 posted on 11/06/2008 6:36:56 PM PST by Theodore R. (Cowardice is forever!)
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To: calex59

Reminds me of when the original President Bush went along with the Dems in an apparent attempt to be a genuine statesman, in the sense of honorable compromise, to support a tax increase. (After having publicly and emphatically saying “Read my lips...”) Then when the next election came around, they gave him no credit for being a “cross the aisle” kind of guy, but bashed him about the head and shoulders with his broken “read my lips” promise. I’m confident that at the time he thought the result would be good and that the Dems would be nice because he was nice.


468 posted on 11/06/2008 6:50:45 PM PST by Resolute
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To: AnglePark

Does anyone else find it interesting that the first donation to the McCain-Palin compliance fund was made on March 1, 2008, months before Mrs. Palin was officially selected as John McCain’s running mate?

http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/Jerry_Bruckheimer.php

What is to be made of this?

I didn’t support McCain-Palin because I think that a McCain victory would have been disastrous for conservative movement in the long term.

Now, I’m convinced that McCain intentionally “mailed it in” to give the election to Obama. He may even have voted for Obama, like many others in the Republican establishment.


469 posted on 11/06/2008 6:54:09 PM PST by SecAmndmt (Arm yourselves!)
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To: mbraynard

You know, as much as I like and admire Palin—I don’t really know her, only from what I’ve seen here on the net and from what I’ve read. Tv has been disconnected for 20 mos now & will stay that way—but I was stunned that she could not answer simple questions about what newspapers, mags, etc she read, even if she just ignores print media she would at least know the names of AK papers, then there are Field&Stream, Am Rifleman, Time & newsweek—it is possible Kourik’s pals did some censoring to make Palin look really dumb, but then after seeing the results, she would have jumped on them with all 4 feet, no? She has a terrific personality and boundless energy but it’s really hard to see much ‘depth’ amongst all the fever of a pol. campaign.


470 posted on 11/06/2008 6:56:11 PM PST by luvadavi
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To: mbraynard

“...a hard-core intellect with a sharp understanding of policy and tactics...”

That would be Richard Nixon. He won by a landslide against McGovern, won a close one against Humphrey, and lost a close one against Kennedy.

As Prez he did not help out the cause as even National Review condemned him for betrayal of the Conservatives.


471 posted on 11/06/2008 6:59:22 PM PST by Monterrosa-24 (...even more American than a French bikini and a Russian AK-47.)
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To: luvadavi
Yes I do. I also realize he took the max. contribution from people who couldn't afford it. Like the girl saying the one was going to put gas in her car and pay her mortgage. A lot of these people just figured the govt won't let them lose their homes, so they jumped on the bail me out band wagon. I know this is the case from friends who had their adult children do that very thing.

I agree with you, on all the rich folks and how much they dumped into the one, as well as illegal overseas money.

The saddest most heartbreaking thing is that while all over the news we are hearing that folks looked beyond race and judged this election on character, just the opposite is true! This election lowered the level of respect for the office of the President drastically, by voting based only on color, and not even taking character into account. Not to mention judgment, which the man who would be, HAS Terrible judgment! And very little character, ethics, and yes I will say it, patriotism. Anybody can be President now only means if you have enough money. Nothing else matters. Heck the media (and the American people, not to mention the govt.) knows more about Joe the Plumber than we will ever know about Obama. We have not even been allowed to see his medical records, a common place disclosure for ANY and ALL previous candidates for the office. We know nothing, except that he raised a lot of money, a lot of which he has not even disclosed the sources of.

God Help America.

472 posted on 11/06/2008 6:59:40 PM PST by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: SecAmndmt

I followed that link a few days ago and was surprised—way back in March, yet it appeared at the convention that she was a recent choice—Mac just decided then to take her on. That is deceitful (shocked, just shocked I tell ya!)—it looked all along , the way Juan dragged his feet, played nice guy, then the bailout fiasco, that he was a willing fall guy in this. It fits in with the NWO, yes conspiracy and no I have no tinfoil hat.


473 posted on 11/06/2008 7:05:17 PM PST by luvadavi
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To: mbraynard

Palin is the reason that McCain ever had a chance in the first face. This is shameful. Just shameful.


474 posted on 11/06/2008 7:08:50 PM PST by robertvance
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To: Eagle Eye
I am under the impression that both candidates were going to take only public financing and that Obama suckered McCain by signing a pledge then not honoring it.

My dream commercial:

"On January 20th, (I don't want to mention his name) (will) promise(d) to preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States. During the campaign, he pledged to abide by public campaign finances...and then reneged. How many more pledges and promises will he...change?"

475 posted on 11/06/2008 7:11:10 PM PST by Christian4Bush (Only in a Democrat run Congress can a 9% approval rating get you an increased leadership role.)
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To: mbraynard
Every story in the news like this just gives the Left material to laugh about and simply diverts our efforts and attention away from the real task at hand - taking back our Country.

In a way, who cares what a McCain staffer says about anything? It just makes him look like a shmuck. We all know and love Sarah Palin and that is not going to change.

Whether you liked him or hated him, McCain is irrelevant, just another Senator now.

We have to focus on the here and now, not the past.

We have to start organizing for the mid-term elections and 2012. Today. Infighting helps none of us.
476 posted on 11/06/2008 7:18:01 PM PST by beagleone (Sarah Palin for President in 2012. Lets start fundraising ASAP.)
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To: AnglePark
I can take that heat all day

You will fit in well here then. :-)

477 posted on 11/06/2008 7:21:48 PM PST by TheDon
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To: robertvance
This story is a manufactured controversy by the MSM. Nobody in the Republican party truly believes that Palin was a "drag on the ticket"

THE MSM IS INSTIGATING THIS SO-CALLED STORY TO GET PALIN OFF THE NATIONAL STAGE PERMANENTLY. THEY ARE TERRIFIED SHE'LL BE BACK IN 2012 AND KICK OBAMA'S BUTT.

Ignore the MSM. And that includes Fox in this case.
478 posted on 11/06/2008 7:21:48 PM PST by beagleone (Sarah Palin for President in 2012. Lets start fundraising ASAP.)
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To: Pondo
Now that the election is over we can all say what has been bugging us, that McCain was just a Dole repeat. Stupid choice and we are all scratching our heads on how McCain got the nomination in the first place.

Interesting that in the last 40 years, the only two war veterans to be President, at least on the Republican side, were Ford and HW Bush...and of those two, only Bush was elected. And I don't recall his service being the reason he won - likely more the reason was eight years of Ronald Reagan. No Dole (WW2), no McCain, Gore, or Kerry (Vietnam).

479 posted on 11/06/2008 7:22:15 PM PST by Christian4Bush (Only in a Democrat run Congress can a 9% approval rating get you an increased leadership role.)
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To: AnglePark

You should have demanded it be taken out of the payroll fund for those losers, long as you wbere at it.


480 posted on 11/06/2008 7:24:27 PM PST by EDINVA
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