Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?

National Review ^ | 2009-07-01 | Mark Hemingway

[rabscuttle385]

The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign. At issue is a question that was never resolved following McCain’s loss in November: Who in the McCain campaign was secretly trashing Sarah Palin to the press?

[ejonesie22]

Well for God’s sake don’t use his “artist”, SOB like to never have gotten my glorious pecs right..

[Deb]

You must be getting paid to be this obnoxious. No one could keep up such over-the-top, irrational, insanity but a paid smash-mouth hack.

Go play with your anatomically correct Sarah doll.

[ejonesie22]

Would you like to show me the “irrationality”...

Seem hyperbole is your game, given your post to me...

[ejonesie22]

Could be...

[Question_Assumptions]

A “leak” implies that the rumors are true. I have serious doubts about many of these “leaks”.

[Deb]

I thought you'd slap right back. You're clearly unstable, but you know something, Romney is looking better and better to me. He was always just someone in the pack of candidates, but your unhinged, daily attacks on him has made me see him in a new light.

He really is both hunky and brilliant, with a perfect chin and sparkling eyes! And those TEETH!!! Oh, my God, he's GORGEOUS!!! I'll do everything in my power to get this man elected! He HAS to be president!! He's America's only chance to bring Reagan's vision to this great country. And he has a BUTT OF STEEL!!!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Forget Palin.

Elect someone with some moral fortitude and honor.

Get lost, Chewie.

[se_ohio_young_conservative]

Earth to Deb...

You are talking about a Rockefeller East Coast Republican. You are not on the winning team at the moment. We are going to bury these “Steve Schmidt” types. The corpse of their political careers will be burried under the floor of the Atlantic Ocean pretty soon.

this is a civil war within our party.

The way they are treating Sarah. this is war.

[ejonesie22]

You have officially qualified as a Mitten.

You can't back up what you say, hiding such under weak personal attacks and are fixated on Mitts physical attributes whilst sticking your finger in your ears on his policy and history.

Assuming you are Conservative (big leap) that should be an issue. That it isn't and seeing as how you have been driven in to Mitt's open arms by people pointing out the facts of his flaws and passionately defending conservative ideals... Well... Guess that makes an interesting case.

[mick]

That’s one fine photo, FRiend !!

This year ??

[Deb]

Sorry if you’re too far gone to know when someone is PUTTING YOU ON!! Freaking whack-job. Sober up, change your underpants and don’t take everything so seriously. What a boner.

[Victoria Delsoul]

Reached by phone, a McCain campaign staffer intimately familiar with the situation said he didn’t want to speculate on what he might have motivated Schmidt and possibly others to denigrate Palin to the media, but notes, “What people were talking about was how deeply flawed Palin was, rather than how deeply flawed the handling of Palin was, which was [the leakers'] strategic goal.”

In an interview with Hugh Hewitt only two months ago, Steve Schmidt was salivating over Romney and enthusiastically praising him.:

"...in that instance, in this instance, it would be Governor Romney. I thought he was a very scary opponent looking from the other side of the table in that he was almost like a learning organism at the end. He just kept getting better week by week by week, and kept becoming stronger.... I think Mitt Romney is a candidate, is a far stronger candidate, prospectively, for the ’12 race because of his experience in ’08 than he was heading into the ’08 race."

His list though didn't include Sarah Palin's name. So I'm not surprised he, and the other Romney supporters, are attacking Sarah in order to help promote their guy and prop him up. They obviously know that Sarah will be a strong contender if she chooses to run, and they need to destroy her sooner rather than later.

[ejonesie22]

Got busted didn’t you...

You’re adorable...

[Deb]

Another humorless twit heard from.

Earth to moron...

I WAS KIDDING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Deb]

Suck it, mental patient. I think we know who got "busted". Try reading from the top and see if you can figure out just when you started getting played.

Hint: You still won't know. Duh!

[ejonesie22]

Yup, dad busted you, that is what I thought.

The “I played you” bit is fun though, kind of an off shoot of the old Pee Wee Herman “No I didn’t, you did” routine...

Classic, and while over played still brings a smile...

[Deb]

Dad loves me. I'm his favorite and you can tattle to him all you want, but I'm the one who gets treats and kittens.

Figure out when the put on started? Thought not. What a humorless loooser.

[Servant of the Cross]

Cedric the lesser, you were made a complete fool of yesterday and here you come back again for more?! You are the desperate one continuing to have to change your story. Here's Cedric from yesterday, extolling the very same Scheunemann:

Ced #151.

Randy Scheunemann, director of foreign policy and national security for the McCain-Palin campaign: "The mean tone of this article is completely false, this is not the Sarah Palin I knew and spent two and a half months with." He also said he was tired of reporters using information about Mrs. Palin from people unwilling to go on the record. {That's a polite way of calling the whole thing BS!}

David Welch, deputy research director for the McCain-Palin ticket...complained "significant parts of the story are based on half truths and gossip from staffers who refused to go on the record."

Please note: These are quotes from REAL PEOPLE who can (and I'm sure will) be approached for verification.

That makes these statements wholly different and infinitely more reliable than the cowardly "anonymous" tripe most of you fell for.

[ejonesie22]

I never need to tattle, not my style.

He seems to find the way kiddies on his own without my help....

If it will make you good to bed I will tell you you got me...

Now run along, it is nighty night time for Sleepyhead Deb......

[Deb]

Haven’t you passed out in your own vomit yet?