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.

[anniegetyourgun]

If one only thinks in the temporal, I’d have to agree with both of you.

[wgb]

All these attacks on Palin from the McCain staffers sicken me. It shows me that they were never really behind Palin and were just using her to fool us into voting McCain.

I was going to vote third party until the saddlebrook event and Palin nomination. But I have learned my lesson. I am NEVER voting for another moderate rebublican again - I don’t care who the VP pick is. That’s right, I said NEVER. I don’t care if James Dobson is the VP running mate.

From now on, either the guy on top is going to be a bona fide conservative or I’m voting for the constituation party candiate.

[pallis]

I voted for Sarah. McCain is a leftwing surrogate who never stood a chance against a real Democrat.

[Logical me]

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 is not the only reason, but the Republicans we busy shooting down all the candidates with past lies and distortions. Some negative reports were right but no candidate was a pure conservative. Without the adult realization that a candidate could change, they butcher them but were lighter on McCain. They were concentrating so hard that the only one left was McCain. We got McCain by default. The only one that looked young Presidential like, expert on economy and most important could speak with the tone of a President was Romney. Don't forget Romney was right up there with McCain and damn near won. (OK, now lets hear from you Romney haters, let it go)

[varmintman]

Independents and dems voting in pubbie primaries didn’t have anything to do with it?

[dfwgator]

On the other hand, it wasn’t as if any of the other GOP candidates were any good.

[o_zarkman44]

Ron Paul wasn’t necessarly my choice. But the man understands economics and tried to tell Americans. Unfortunately his presentation methods scared people.
I chose Fred Thompson. Unfortunately, like my early post, the open, early primaries killed the real conservatives like Hunter and Thompson, who split votes with Paul.

The election was called before even 5% of Americans had voted in their primaries. We have to close open primaries to only Republicans to avoid future sabotage of our choices.

[AmericanInTokyo]

Screw McCain.

Freeper Rabscuttle385 had it right all along.

[AmericanInTokyo]

What this shows is what the ENTRENCHED RNC RINO INSIDERS would have done to her in D.C. as VICE PRESIDENT PALIN. And as Conservatives, there would not have been a damned thing we could do about it.

They would have had her shut up in a dungeon with little to no power over their bi-partisan, RINOfest run rampant in Washington for four to eight years. And yet we would still be coopted, with nonsense "Day in the Life of President McCain" threads here on FR slobbering all over a MODERATE's destruction of the USA.

A silver lining in that McCain did not win was that we can now go on to reclaiming the GOP from these imposters and low lifes.

[Dawgreg]

LOL! So true.......but mine was a vote for Sarah.:)