These people are poison. The same thing happened to Miller in Alaska---he brought in some of Huck's people and they promptly pushed him to put distance between himself and the Palins in order to appear more moderate. He did and has regretted it ever since, especially after those same operatives released private emails between him and Todd, who felt betrayed by Miller's refusal to strongly back Sarah in the MSM.
“On the other was a small handful of professional Republican operatives who were hired to help run the general election effort.
These people are poison. The same thing happened to Miller in Alaska-—he brought in some of Huck’s people and they promptly pushed him to put distance between himself and the Palins in order to appear more moderate.”
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Watching Angle’s and Miller’s demise ought to give us great hope. Both were basically good people who were naive and lacked self confidence. The lack of self confidence in a leader, whether politician, general or quarterback, is a grave flaw. If the leader is matched against long odds, the flaw is fatal. Angle and Miller both had winnable races, but their lack of self confidence (and its first cousin, experience) was just enough to push the damaged opponent over the top.
Back to hope, though. In Sarah Palin, we have the most self confident candidate I have ever seen. She does not need the political pros, because she herself is the quintessential pro. Her tactics and judgment are light years ahead of theirs, and she has had the 2008 experience in a national campaign to confirm for her that she does not need the Roves and Steve Schmidt’s.
In Rendezvous with Destiny, I was struck by what old Reagan hand Lyn Nofziger called their “Sacramento inferiority complex”. Reagan thought he needed a marquee national consultant and his choice of John Sears arguably cost him the 1976 nomination and nearly cost him the 1980 one as well. Palin has no such disability. She is supremely confident, and she has confirmed by experience that her self confidence is justified.
Did the RNC operatives do that as a stab at the Palins?
Seems like just about everything else they do, revolves around that impulse, that political need.
Somebody needs to start making lists of RNC operatives' names. A long, long, long list ...... for later.