More top McCain-Palin aides come out supporting her.

Politico ^ | 11/7/08 | Jonathon Martin

[Paul R.]

... The Republicans who worked most closely with Palin — the ones who were with her from when she first walked into that swooning Ohio basketball arena in August until she walked off the stage after McCain’s concession speech in Phoenix Tuesday — are now having their say in that conversation.

And they want it known that they’re sick of Sarah Palin being dragged through the mud.

[Miss Marple]

Oh, sorry, I missed it.

About 6 years ago there was a “leak” quoted in the New York Times about a position that the Bush administration was supposedly going to take.

Fred Barnes on Fox said that he went to everyone he could find in the White House, and not one person thought that was the position, and was dumbfounded that he would even think it.
That was when I became convinced that the media just makes stuff up and uses “unnamed sources” to cover it up.

[TXBlair]

...that puke Carl Cameron who gleefully leaped into the ‘Trashing Palin Festival’...

Wasn't Carl Cameron also the one who "gleefully" broke/brought up the DWI story about GWB in 2000? He's always been on my poop list.

[TheLawyerFormerlyKnownAsAl]

Personally, I don't think Cameron made up what he reported but screwed up when he rushed to report what he surely knew was made up by somebody in the campaign. Cameron appears to be trying out for a job with Newsweek. Check out the following blog from Weekly Standard: Saturday, November 08, 2008 Most Implausible Palin Story of the Week? Via Isaac Chotiner, Newsweek reports: The day of the third debate, Palin refused to go onstage with New Hampshire GOP Sen. John Sununu and Jeb Bradley, a New Hampshire congressman running for the Senate, because they were pro-choice and because Bradley opposed drilling in Alaska. The McCain campaign ordered her onstage at the next campaign stop, but she refused to acknowledge the two Republican candidates standing behind her. So according to the hatchet man/woman who talked to Newsweek, Palin is such an ideologue about drilling in ANWR that she won't stand next to Bradley, even though John McCain has the exact same position? And Palin is such an ideologue that she won't appear with pro-choice politicians, even though she attended events with pro-choice Clinton donor Lady Lynn Forester de Rothschild? And we're really supposed to believe that Palin is so dumb she doesn't know Africa is a continent, but she knew about the voting records of John Sununu and Jeb Bradley in the first place? Hmmm. I guess that might be remotely possible if it weren't for the fact that John Sununu has a 100 percent pro-life rating from the National Right to Life Committee. Glad to see that whoever leaked this story is too dumb to come up with a plausible smear. And kudos to Newsweek for dumping this whopper without bothering to check if Sununu is in fact pro-abortion. Oh, and by the way, Jeb Bradley isn't running for U.S. Senate, as Newsweek reports. Perhaps they might want to check out Wikipedia before publishing the next batch of Palin smears. Posted by John McCormack at 01:48 AM

[oswegodeee]

I think you have it exactly right, McCain is lame and unstable, again I am also glad he is not president although I am not at all happy about the Marxist idiot we have been stuck with.

We are so screwed for the next four years, I just hope we survive it both in mental health and in financial health. We just started a business some 2 months ago, I pray it does well through the next four years.

[jude24]

Man, he really just dropped right off the face of the earth, didn't he?

It's almost as though he took a vacation....

[Lancey Howard]

It's almost as though he took a vacation....

Yeah, and just left his former running mate to twist in the wind. Nice guy.

[mdmathis6]

I thought “cowards” and “jerks” were perfectly appropriate
responses to the criticism. Choice comments regarding their reproductive prowess might even be in order, though it wouldn’t surprise me if it was women making the comments.
The comments are catty sorts of things that women and male homo’s would say about other women!

[Salvation]

‘Bout time!

[igoramus08]

Nope, you can look at the calendar when McCain lost. When Lehman Bros. went down, so did McCain.

He never recovered and in fact his going to Wasington dance routine and then merely signing on board with the $700 corporate giveaway merely stamped it.

He has a chance to push an alternative that was being propsosed/worked on in Congress. He choose not to and paid for it.

For some reason folks keep running away from the obvious.

While it is true that McCain showed no leadership in the Economic Crisis and failed to name names, he still could have won by making Obama unelectable using Wright/Black Liberation Theology. There were multiple options for McCain to win and that is why this campaign was incompetent.

[Paul R.]

“Did anyone catch THIS part of the article...?”

I did! :-)

[Paul R.]

I wish someone (Biegun?) would ALSO POINT OUT that Palin never went around making up recent history, such as Biden did when he said in the VP debate that we should have made sure the power vacuum in Lebanon was filled after we and the French had kicked Hezbollah out of Lebanon... which “kicking out” is a complete fantasy.

[papersonusa]

Maybe Steve Biegun can identify the various staffers who were drifting in and out of the room during the briefing sessions. Narrow the list of suspects. Or maybe Gov Palin can provide that list.