Posted on 07/01/2009 5:51:41 PM PDT by Al B.
Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated then Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had become with the manner in which top McCain campaign aides were handling her candidacy. The e-mails, obtained exclusively, also highlight the power struggle and thinly veiled acrimony that pervaded the relationship between Palin and the campaign's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt.
The episode in question began when an investigative report published on the left-leaning Web site Salon.com raised questions about Palin's relationship with members of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) when she was mayor of Wasilla. The AIP's platform calls for a vote giving Alaskans the option to secede from the United States. It had already been widely known that Todd Palin was a registered member of the AIP from 1995 to 2002 and that Governor Palin had taped a recorded greeting at the party's 2008 convention.
On the morning of Oct. 15, Palin was aboard her campaign jet and en route to New Hampshire when she happened to catch a disparaging CNN segment that touted the Salon.com story, complete with a provocative graphic at the bottom of the screen reading, "THE PALINS AND THE FRINGE."
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ROTFL! Good one! I love it!
More PDS from the POS that is the “media”.
Er, if you're talking about the AIP stuff, it's spelled "secession".
McCain couldn’t even get even with Letterman himself; he had to let the woman do it for him.
I wouldn't vote for somebody tied to La Raza, either.
Steve did you really have to correct the spelling? Really? Was it an uncontrollable impulse? :P
Another day, another hit piece on Sarah.... one more then do we get the weekend off?
Well. the politics are “the race” are different. The Independence part really just wants Alaska to enjoy full status with the test of the state rather than remain a quasi-territory.
These letters just prove what we all expected, this election was rigged.
It is sometimes necessary to drop a matter because the battle will accomplish nothing and may cause much more damage than the original assertion. That is the central issue of the advice Palin was given. She was also informed that her explanation was disparate with public facts.
If you don't grasp these issues, particularly the first one, it would suggest you may not be capable of participating in a reasoned discussion of the topic.
From the top:
1. So acquiescing is "sound advice"? Just sucking it up and ignoring being misrepresented and/or smeared is "sound advice"?
2. Please expound on what "judgment problems" you believe she has. Sounds to me that she's a stickler for the truth. A fine trait I'd say.
490 states: "I like Palin, but I'm on the fence as far as a potus run and this article is not helping me out (yes, I know that's the point, thanks) but if the write up is accurate, that doesn't matter to me."
"I like Palin, but..."
This gets tiresome.
Agreed.
Now please explain how that invalidates my concern. It doesn't.
It casts doubt on the author's conclusions and suggests a slanted presentation. But my concerns are primarily with the emails themselves. Even Palin finally recognized that the matter needed to be dropped, but it took a surprising amount of push back to get her there.
As I said, if you don’t (or will not) grasp these issues, particularly the first one, it would suggest you may not be capable of participating in a reasoned discussion of the topic. You are right; it’s tiresome. So I will not discuss it with you.
That's what I would prefer to think, but even the bodys of the emails are problematic. It's difficult to say. With all of the garbage being shoveled toward her family I respect her wanting to fight back, but not at the expense of what is true (and easily found out). That's why I think the advice was an obvious fit.
Either answer the questions or piss off.
LMAO - reading comprehension is not a strong suit w/ you, is it?
It is when I'm reading a book by someone I admire, such as Dickens or von Mises.
Comments from abject cretins I tend to skim over and forget about quickly. :^)
Yeah, I bet the occasional drawings of miss Haversham are just etched right into your memory, and supply/demand graphs knock around in your empty head like she did in her house.
Because yor opinion about the emails is wrong.
LLS
the Dc Republicans are trying to destroy palin...and the conservative base. Make no mistake any money sent to the RNC, Senate or House re-election committees will be used AGAINST her. keep that in mind when they call for a donation.
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