Posted on 11/06/2008 9:00:13 PM PST by Gondring
Gov. Sarah Palin returned home in defeat to Wasilla, Alaska, today - leaving behind eyebrow-raising tales about towel-clad appearances and internal campaign feuds. [...]
Among the stories reported by Fox News and Newsweek magazine:
-- She showed up in front of John McCain campaign aides "wearing nothing but a towel";
-- She sent campaign staff on a shopping spree for her family that insiders described as the "Wasilla hillbillies looting Nieman Marcus from coast-to-coast";
-- She was so shockingly ignorant of basic civics that aides prepping her for her single debate realized she didn't know that Africa is a continent and not a country, nor could she identify the countries that comprise North America. [...]
On election night, the New York Times reported, Palin showed up at McCain's election-night gathering in Phoenix ready to read a concession speech. It goes against campaign protocol for a vice presidential candidate to speak on election night, and the move was vetoed by McCain strategist Steve Schmidt. [...]
"She didn't know the nations involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement," NAFTA - a key agreement between the United States, Mexico and Canada," he said GOP insiders told him. She also "didn't understand that Africa was a continent and not a country" and asked for explanation about the difference between South Africa and Africa, he reported. [...]
And the lingering matter of her wardrobe spending continues - a Republican party attorney has been assigned to look into Palin's designer clothing purchases and, reportedly, to retrieve the expensive items. [...]
"An angry aide ... said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books," according to the magazine.
Still, conservative leaders downplayed those reports, insisting that base voters were deeply impressed by Palin and her contributions to the ticket.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
If you call him a douchebag you’re going to be labeled a homophobe.
So if this is all true, then I admit poor judgment, as I had been pushing for Gov. Palin for VP for a long time. And I think that perhaps she’d do well spending the next few years in prepping for the big time.
Let’s see, is it more important for a VP to know the difference between a continent and a country? or to be able to know the difference between “3” and “4”, as when Biden spoke about “that magic 3-letter word: JOBS - J-O-B-S.”
Personally, I don’t buy the Africa story. Sounds like hogwash to me. I would like to believe the towel story only because I tend to live vicariously through lucky men who travel to hotels with hot women. I have a feeling, though, the towel story is either exaggerated or false.
For me, the important thing is this: the pro-liberty policies she encouraged in her state worked and made it a better, more prosperous place to live. Those same policies could be used to make all other states better, more prosperous places to live, too.
She’s lucky she went to small unimpressive schools. Had she gone to some Ivy League college, she would have been corrupted and graduated as a Marxist.
Look what Columbia and Harvard did to Barry Soetoro: he started out as an honest thug and emerged as a dishonest socialist.
Education kills.
LOL! Or BOTH!
The Africa story is hogwash. It is recycled from Bushes early days when he referred to Africa as a country.
It's rather disheartening to think that you have so little confidence in your own opinions/impressions.
I thought Carl Gossip Cameron, said, "bathrobe."
better be careful or you may have just written MSNBC’s lead story tomorrow..ROFL
You are such a tool....
What a despicable post.
Yep or any of the male candidates. All this movement to destroy Sarah has got me to wondering what exactly McCain really had in mind for her by chance he did win. Because right now I am beginning to consider the possibility he was not all that motivated to win. And his hand picked political maiden was expendable no matter what the outcome.
bingo...good post..
we also need to realise a few personality issues
suppose palin ran in 2012 and won?
now i know all of us here would be bordering on a religious like experience, but mccains advisors would not. why? if she wins, it then forces everyone to look at the old campaign and the advisors of mccain and how they got it so wrong.
this is their ego speaking out. what is truly sad is their egos are more important then the country. it shows you how far down the rabbit hole they are...
IIRC McCain's mortgage deal was Hillary's idea that he somehow got fed as demonstrating his disgust with wicked evil 'wall street'. Problem was he never did quite get around to naming names, most likely he would not have been able to go to that Smith dinner with his friends. Speaking of which that dinner was the most comfortable I saw McCain through out this whole campaign. He was totally within his natural surroundings.
As for Sarah Palin supposedly not knowing about Africa being a continent, Obama did not even know Illinois was next door to Kentucky. In his own words he said Kentucky was going for HIllary about its closeness to Arkansas, lol. Yeah, but the media didn’t make anything of that gaffe.
Based upon what I have read thus far regarding that accusation it is not clear that what she said had anything to do with ignorance of country/continent. And for these supposed informants to be taking their own notes on her knowledge tells me that something else was actually taking place.
hehehe...those who know me would find that quite a laughable statement. Perhaps you should read my posts more carefully and not mistake open-mindedness with being swayed.
And actually, if this article is true, it will be in line with my own thoughts and impressions already gained through the late campaign--but as I pointed out above, the audit will give more information.
Heck, look at my post #42, above, where I point out that even if there was some issue with American Exceptionalism, it might just have been a difference of opinion. (Not exactly like I'm drinking whatever flavor of Kool-Aid is passed out!) And in fact, I think that Wilsonian doctrine is a large part of what has gotten us in this mess we're in, so I'd probably be dinged by McCain's flunkies, too!
Remember, facing challenges (negative press reports, for example) and managing responses to them isn't giving in to them. It's better than pretending they don't exist.
</sarc>
Sorry, but some of us want conservatism to succeed, even if it's painful. Some of us find it useful to learn and discuss what others might be reading. Some of us believe in looking at reality itself, not just through rose-colored filters.
Whether true or not, this is a published story and has accusations that may or may not be true. As I said above, it's a hit piece, but perhaps there are bits of truth.
But rather than give any constructive suggestions on how best to address these considerations (blindly fight back; wait and see what the audits say; try to let them die quietly; slam McCain's aides; determine if people are framing the Romney camp or if it's really his stuff; etc.), you just try to tear down a fellow FReeper. Real nice.
You sound like McCains pathetic campaign advisors. Here’s a newsflash for you - I know dozens of people personally who only voted for MCCain because Palin was on the ticket.
McCain was WAAAAAAY down the list of candidates that the GOP base wanted.
THere was a collective “ohhhh......” when McCain won out in the primaries.
There was a reason that Palin out-drew Mccain by thousands at campaign events. SHE was the one that excited the base, not McCain.
Here’s another newsflash for you - The “Moderate Mafia” in the GOP can keep this up and guarantee the destruction of the party. THere are 25,000,000 to 30,000,000 conservatives who will NOT compromise their principles to please the moderates who want to keep reaching across the isle to make the liberals happy.
I hate to sound like a loon charismatic Christian, but someone I know in the UK church had a vision about a “black haired man” fighting over the sick and possibly dying corpse of John McCain with a woman for power.
This was back in Sept/August. This preacher does not know US politics.
I immediately said the black haired man is Mitt Romney...
This preacher has also had alarming visions about nuke attack on the US.
Sorry to scare up Biblical stuff but I do believe Romney is after Palin for 2012 power. They’d like to “Katherine Harris” her now.
She's a bigger threat to RINOs than to Dems. Indeed, the way to tell a moderate from a RINO is observe the reaction to Ms. Palin. A moderate won't be willing to go out on a limb for the conservative positions Ms. Palin puts forth, but he'll quietly applaud her for doing so. A RINO, by contrast, would rather attack Ms. Palin than the Democrats.
So basically some people decided to come up with every implausible rumor they could.
What.
Ever.
A co-worker of mine believed quite strongly that Sen. McCain was intentionally throwing the race to get back at the RNC because they forced Gov. Palin on him.
While I don't agree with his entire argument, I do believe that Sen. McCain held back to protect his Senate and other relationships, while never really knowing what Palin's role would be.
And even if nobody forced Gov. Palin on him, I'm sure he felt that circumstances forced her upon him when he'd rather have had someone like Joe Lieberman, Lindsay Graham, et al.
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