Posted on 11/07/2008 6:14:51 AM PST by mathwhizz
Stapleton said some campaign staff members controlled Palin too tightly, keeping her from the press and admonishing her when she made calls to radio hosts Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and others.
"Instead of just letting her be who she wanted to be they still felt this need to control. ...There were a few times where she actually did sneak in phone calls and was reprimanded for picking up the phone and placing a few calls on her own," Stapleton said.
"She felt that she really did want to go out and speak and get out there more. One of them was to (the Daily News). There were a number of times where she reached out and really wanted to speak and she was told she needed to follow the script and she needed to follow what they wanted her to do and that wasn't in the plan."
Stapleton said Palin called the staff of Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly. But the campaign got wind of it and told her O'Reilly had canceled the interview, which wasn't true.
Randy Scheunemann, McCain's foreign policy aide, contacted the Daily News at Stapleton's request Thursday and defended the governor. He praised Palin and said anonymous attacks from other staffers are "disappointing and dishonorable."
"It's really amazing, I think it's unprecedented in terms of presidential politics to have this level of vindictiveness and pettiness. It's like these people fell out of favor with a middle school 14-year-old girls' clique. It's really unbelievable," Scheunemann said.
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I knew it.
First, it’s, “Why won’t they deny it” now it’s, “I don’t believe their denials”.
Whose side are you on?
How on earth can mere aides reprimand the Governor of a state and Vice Presidential nominee of the Republican Party? McBush's people truly must have treated her like a stupid child. No wonder she was pissed at them.
Rush did talk about the call Sarah placed with him, so we know she wanted to talk. McCain was probably just afraid she was taking over the campaign, too bad she didn’t huh?
It's all unsourced rumors!
But, ask yourself: If they could find out in 24 hours how many pimples Joe the Plumber has on his butt, why can't they find who allegedly made these statements after 4 days?!?!
How ‘bout ‘cause no one did?!?!?!
Who? What?
Please refresh my memory, I don’t recall asking why don’t they deny it. I believe I have been supportive of Governor Palin. If you have a post of me asking why they don’t deny it, please refresh my memory.
In the meantime, I’ll go back through my posts and check myself.
Nicholle Wallace is mud.
Now it’s down to being salacious!
“At the GOP convention, Palin was so “completely unfazed by the boys’ club fraternity she had just joined” that she greeted McCain advisers Schmidt and Mark Salter in her hotel room “wearing nothing but a towel, with another on her wet hair.”
I am on Sarah's side. Why would anyone stick up for the McCain staff when they ran one of the worst campaigns in history? They wouldn't dare hit Obama on so many issues, yet they feel free to dump on Palin.
Three days removed from the election and I already feel better about it. Losing sucks, but at least we don't have McCain and staff as our standard bearers.
There was even a senior McCain aide that said we could win using Wright, but we dont want to. There were only 2 major differences in policy anyway between Obama and McCain, taxes and healthcare.
Genius! Sarah calls into the shows of the top conservative talkers in America,does great, and she’s the one in trouble.
Both Mr and Mrs Wallace are a joke. Anyone hiring them will get what they deserve.
Same difference, sexist sexist.
I think we now know how the two radio jocks in Montreal got to Palin. The high placed aides probably even told her to expect the call.
Sarah knows, and I can’t wait to see the corpse....... She will get her!
Sarah knows, and I can’t wait to see the corpse....... She will get her!
Anchorage Daily News is COMMIE-LIBERAL-SOCIALISTIC mouthpiece.
Here are some of their healines on Joe Biden:
Biden looks like a yacht owner, acts like a man of the people
Son of working-class Catholics, Biden may bolster Obama’s weak spots
Biden overcame tragedy and became an expert on world affairs
Joe Biden’s long career has many highs and notable lows
Biden tax returns prove he’s not wealthy by Senate standards
I went through my postings re: Governor Palin rumors and there is not 1 asking why won’t they deny it. You must have me confused with someone else.
I have had enough of this. These lame sources need to shut it. Palin did not lose the campaign for them; they easily did that on their own. If anything, she probably kept McCain from an enormously embarrassing loss.
When will McCain come out and insist that these “sources” shut up? When will he step up and defend her once and for all? Any takers here?
Jealousy is an ugly monster and it’s pretty clear to me that there is some major envy of Palin.
As I trained new callers in the Fairfax Va phonebank I told them to get the essential points of the script but to talk like and be themselves. Authenticity sells.
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