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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Ditto.
I didn’t think it was possible for McCain to get any of my hard earned money. He did only because of Palin.
“Many explanations ... in numerous freeper threads.”
Can you provide any links? Would like to look.
I suspect this is where they got the idea for the first Palin/robe story, then changed it to a towel later.
One example: Chris Ingram, Harris' former campaign communications director has this photo on his Testimonials page.
Chris Ingram & Al Franken
If the Chris Ingram photo doesn't ruffle your feathers, perhaps the pattern of backstabbing GOP women by former Harris campaign staffer Glen Hodas will shine the light on a pervasive problem.
I know what she said. I always feel anxious every time she talks. And she has this ‘I am a politician’ feel. Dodging questions, adding extra words to her answers, etc.
I don’t get this feeling when I listen to someone like laura ingraham. She is very straight and to the point.
You obviously don’t care for Palin and that is your right.
You think that the Couric interview is genuine. Okay.. good for you. But you just might want to hold a degree of skepticism for what you watch in the media... just sayin’.
I do care for Palin. She’s a very wonderful person with a good heart and accomplished a lot. She is a tough fighter and made tough decisions.
But we also need someone who can cut through the media and I don’t think she can do that yet.
It’s not just the Couric interview but even the Hannity interview.
Get it through your head, Bush gave the election to Obama 5 weeks before it concluded!
My apologies nralife....I misunderstood your point. I should have said that Rush believed someone was spreading rumors. Thanks for the correction.
You’re right redk. I misunderstood nralife.
“think mccain would’ve fought to keep the bush tax cuts from automatically expiring when he voted against them in the first place?”
He *never* got close to making the obvious point of a tax increase when the cuts expire - Which leaves me to believe he was going to let the expire *just like Obama*.
He had no intention of winning this election. The way it is now, our elections are a farce. George H.W. Bush’s pet project, the New World Order. That’s how it seems to me.
Maybe they are trying to preserve John McCain’s reputation just in case he decides to run again in 2012. LOL.
Nicolle Wallace was apparently the person who kept Palin from doing more media interviews. This reminds me of my fustration at Bush refusing to fight back and let the media tear Bush apart with no response. Bush for years were likea punching bag. Maybe Nicolle Wallace is the reason?
http://minx.cc/?blog=86&post=277539
McCain and the GOP lost for several reasons, but NONE of them was due to Sarah Palin. She injected life into his lukewarm campaign.
They made a good point on Fox&Friends just a minute ago - blaming the republican party for trashing Sarah who is trying to decide who they are - Sarah, McCain or Powell - Although it was a democrap that said it - I think it about sums it up. I think we all agree on the answer - if not, then we need to start a Conservative party with all the conservative values and a theme of “Personal Responsibility” - when Sarah said personal responsibility, the Luntz meter hit record levels - but, of course, you never heard it again.
Anyone can do anything they want to as long as they can afford to pay for it.
35 years ago when working 20/7 trying to start a small business I saw the union workers picketing for more money than EEs made. I said when the minority becomes the majority, we’ll all be in trouble - and here we are. (This is due to the fact that responsible tax-paying citizens generally have 1 to 2 childred because that’s all they can afford - while the welfare case have the number that the welfare system will pay for. When I graduated from college and got a great job in 1959, I discovered that had I spent the previous 4 years having illegitimate kids, I’d have been making 50% more.
The “Country First” should have been “McCain First” - had it been country first, he would have swallowed his pride and gone after Rev Wright, changed his public financing, etc..
Cock-uh-roaches.
Romney is our version of the rebel Catholic Democrats. Pro choice Mormon. How does that work?
No more liberal republicans. Purge them and rename the party Conservative.
Did you happen to catch Greta last night positively livid with the treatment Sarah is receiving? She was on fire.
If Alaska taxes remain low, and if wages and prices remain flexible and free, and if private property continues to be respected, there’s no doubt that Alaska will continue to prosper during the next five years. Depressions are governmentally induced from recessions when meddlesome controls are put in place. The vindication will be if Sarah believes enough in her own principles and policies to stick with them as the rest of the country goes down the toilet.
Not sure why Katie Couric should be the deciding factor. She’s a lefty viper, out to make anyone on the right look bad. She’s also still responsible for low ratings of her own news show (to which legitimate charge she cried “that’s sexism!”). I think the next viable conservative candidate should b**ch-slap her by simply avoiding her entirely. Sarah would have been much better off avoiding these sorts of interviews and reaching out to the press and the urban demographic through many small press conferences in which she could control the discourse and also be herself. When she’s herself, urbans respond positively to her (everyone does).
I believe her poor performance with Gibson and Couric were mainly the result of receiving mixed directives from Team McCain, putting her in the position of having to mentally run through the sorts of responses that were “legal” and making her look on camera as if she were slow and indecisive. Her leadership history in Alaska prove otherwise.
I don’t think the New Conservative Movement can dispense with alternative media, nor can it appease the old media. Part of pushing the agenda of freedom is that we must expose the MSM for what it is — an entrenched institution of propaganda for the left.
Palin/Thune 2012!
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