Posted on 11/06/2008 12:30:02 PM PST by An American!
There have been "anonymous sources" within the McCain campaign who have been for weeks "badmouthing" Sarah Palin. Please find below the compiled list based off FreeRepublic posting of some of those most responsible for the ghastly behavior.
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Arlen Spector | Proof? |
Carl Cameron | the mouthpiece of these people |
Charles Fried | a Harvard professor who served in the Reagan administration. Fried said chief among the reasons "is the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis." |
Chris DePino | a Republican consultant based in New Haven, Conn. |
Colin Powell | "Palin not qualified" |
Condeleeza Rice | In an interview with CNNs Zain Verjee this weekend, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered a less-than-hearty endorsement of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palins foreign policy experience. |
David Brooks | |
David Frum | (National Review) |
George Will | |
Joel Goldstein | a law professor at St. Louis University |
Kathleen Parker | Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker thinks Palin should quit. |
Kevin Madden | |
Lindsey Graham | |
Nicole Wallace | Nicolle Wallace -- a former Bush White House official and McCain campaign aide who helped orchestrate the roll out of GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin -- has defended herself in a lengthy interview with The Daily Beast, saying she is the victim of "an organized campaign" to discredit her. |
Paul Mirengoff | (Powerline Blog) |
Peggy Noonan | |
Steve Schmidt | Proof? |
Tom Ridge | Former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge: "I think the dynamics would have been different in Pennsylvania" if he and not Sarah Palin had been the vice presidential nominee. "I think we'd be foolish not to admit it publicly." |
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Get a grip.
Must everyone march in lockstep and only utter words in praise, else be relegated to an enemies list? What happened to the party of freedom? Can we no longer have differing opinions on things? Sheesh!
It was hardly even mentioned in the campaign in 2000 if at all
Was the muslim threat to this country not mentioned because they didn't consider it a threat or because it would have been spun as 'racist'?
RR also gave numerous speeches, and studied extensively, foreign policy. He was planning for something for many years. Palin has plenty of time to decide what to do to ensure her future within the party. She is a natural, just needs some work on foreign policy.
The Republicans had better learn to work with her from this year forward. She's not going away. She's not going to stay in Alaska, serve her state and then fade away.
The Republicans disregard her at their own peril.
Unfortunately, I think Palin’s political career potential may have been smashed on the rocks by this very ill-advised decision (not hers, really) to shove her into an extremely high profile role which she was not even remotely prepared for. The giddy adulation that a certain segment of the conservative population continues to pour on her is hardly a firm foundation for a climb up the political ladder. It also seems to have to gone to Palin’s head a bid, causing her to behave in ways that have made top Republican movers and shakers want to put her out with the trash. In the final analysis, just like Alan Keyes, she distracted a fawning subset of conservatives from the task at hand, enabling Obama to cruise to an easy victory.
Would a FR RomneyBOT share with FReeRepublic a picture of that chair your Master sent his minion?
Oooh, you've got Romney now. He sent Schmidt a chair! That proves that it is Romney behind these Palin attacks. What does it matter that Schmidt was actually in the employ of McCain? Romney tried to hire Schmidt a year ago, you see, so Schmidt has been a secret Romney minion.
From your link, it looks like Romney is one of the few that Schmidt is not associated with, but it was Romney that sent him the chair!
Congrats, among the Romney-haters at FR, you are bidding for the tin foil crown.
Personally, I think it's way too soon to be talking of this. Sarah needs to rest up and decide if she wants to take this one.
You ARE the graphic guy, but this little chair graphic for the minion might be your best ever. Very funny.
They could have called it the TERRORIST threat as they did when they struck
Maybe, but others have reached and missed, and then later come back. Obama himself ran against that Ex-Black Panther Bobby Whats-His-Name and lost, only to later win.
Lawrence Eagleberger was on TV the next day with a major appology and gave his support to gov. Palin
Martin Eisenstadt outs himself as Carl Cameron’s source for some recent Palin-mocker http://blogs.tnr.com/tnr/blogs/the_stump/archive/2008/11/10/even-more-palin-cluelessness.aspx
Whoops...that is a Hoax...Martin is not a real person. http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=M._Thomas_Eisenstadt
so instead we get Joe Biden with 32 years of erroneous judgment in international relations. just perfect!
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