Stop Blaming Palin; McCain's Campaign Dropped the Ball

Grizzly Groundswell ^ | 11/07/08 | Winged Hussar 1683

[Winged Hussar]

Like the French generals who executed enlisted men for "cowardice" to cover up their own shortcomings during the First World War, John McCain's campaign staff is now looking for a convenient scapegoat in the person of Governor Sarah Palin.

First and foremost, the McCain campaign selected Palin to be John McCain's running mate. ...If the staff failed to [review her credentials] adequately, it set Palin and therefore McCain up for failure.

Second, we know of at least one dropped ball and blown opportunity. We called the McCain headquarters repeatedly to bring to its attention a letter from Hillary Clinton's campaign counsel, Lyn Utrecht, that accused Obama of harassing, intimidating, and suppressing voters during the Nevada caucuses. We faxed and E-mailed copies of this letter to McCain headquarters, and also to some state campaign offices. Had the campaign publicized this letter's conclusion in 30-second commercial slots, it would have utterly demolished Hillary Clinton's new-found support for her party's candidate while adding real flames (credible allegations of misconduct by Obama's own campaign) to the smoke (voter registration fraud) of the ACORN controversy.

There is no place in the American electoral process for the types of voter suppression, intimidation and harassment systematically engaged in by the Obama campaign, its allies and supporters.

Sincerely,

Lyn Utrecht

Counsel Hillary Clinton for President

While various Hillary Clinton support groups like PUMA did re-post this letter on their Web sites--the optical character transcription of the Adobe Acrobat original that we provided helped--McCain's people did not get back to us, and they did not act on this opportunity. Like a less than diligent maintenance crew that forgets to arm a Navy warplane with a full load of missiles, or doesn't bother to top off the fuel tanks, McCain's people let their "pilot" down.

[Winged Hussar]

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[silverleaf]

As Maverick comes under heavy “friendly fire”, the silence from Iceman John McCain speaks volumes

I’m taking a razor blade to my McCain Palin sticker and slicing off the McCain part

[VaRepublican]

McCain did not drop any ball. He sucked from day one, The ONLY reason he got my vote was because of Palin.

[Snurple]

McCain did not drop any ball. He sucked from day one

Yup.

[anniegetyourgun]

It doesn’t really matter who we ran on the R party ticket. This election was orchestrated for ‘the one’ to prevail.

[Don Corleone]

John McCain's campaign staff is now looking for a convenient scapegoat in the person of Governor Sarah Palin.

Fire the janitor! That's what they do in big corporations when management fouls up.

[mnehring]

Support Governor Palin against the attacks. Join Operation Freep Palin.

[dfwgator]

Further proof that McCain would have been an absolute disaster as POTUS.

[joesbucks]

Wouldn’t say it was orchestrated, but the odds were against a republican no matter who it was.

[dfwgator]

but the odds were against a republican no matter who it was.

And if there had to be a fall guy, McCain was the perfect one.

[AD from SpringBay]

The problem with the McCain campaign was McCain. A real leader takes responsibility. Establishment republicans point fingers. Imagine the route had he not chosen Palin the Conservative.

[tx_eggman]

McCain did not drop any ball. He sucked from day one, The ONLY reason he got my vote was because of Palin.

McCain lost because he got 6 million fewer votes than President Bush did in 2004 ... without Palin's energizing influence it would have been 8-10 million.

[o_zarkman44]

Same here. We voted McCain ONLY because of Palin. We need to make that point loud and proud!!

McCain alone was not even my 2nd choice. The early primaries that allowed unregistered as Republicans to vote eliminated the TRUE conservative choices. Primaries were a sham for Republican voters.

Tis ok. We needed to clean house and let the GOP know who is their boss.

[varmintman]

Could somebody refresh my memory as to how in the world we ended up John (the “Maverick(TM)”) McCain as a candidate for president this year? This was the worst candidate and the worst campaign on the part of pubbies which I have ever seen. Mortimer Snerd could have beaten Barack Oinkbama and any of the other pubbie candidates I was seeing in the primaries would have utterly trashed him in debates.

[goldstategop]

The PUMAs did deliver and so did a lot of people on our side. Who lost this election? McCain who wouldn't play tough and hard on Obama and expose him and his record because it wasn't "honorable." Whatever you might say about Sarah, she gave it her best and acquitted herself with grace in defeat. Too bad the same can't be said of the people in McCain's campaign, who, had they been true professionals, could have made their candidate the President-Elect this week.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

[Piquaboy]

McCain did not drop any ball because he does not have any. He should have thrown everything in the book at Barack. Especially his past assosiations with people like Wright and Ayers.

[Dawgreg]

Remember the “Don’t Blame Me, I voted for ........” I’m having a bumper sticker made for myself....”Don’t Blame Me, I Voted For Sarah Palin”.:)

[Terry Mross]

Amen! I know plenty of liberal and “moderate” relatives who voted for McCain just because of Sarah. And they all want to see her run in 2012.

As for McCain, he’s a turn coat. Just like he turned on his base with McCain/Feingold and McCain/Kennedy. Once again we voted for the lessor of two evils and got evil. Again, I’ll admit had it not been for Sarah I would have voted third party or stayed home.

[montag813]

McCain must be defeated in the next primary he faces.

[jonrick46]

This classic case of blame shifting shows that those involved reveal their own selfish ineptness. It is that ineptness that failed John McCain. They should have been cleaned out of the campaign the minute they showed any indication of working for their own self interest.