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Nicolle Wallace Mocks Palin Over Iowa Speech: She's Shed Those 'Annoying Handlers'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 01/26/2015 6:03:56 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest

It's official: Nicolle Wallace really doesn't like Sarah Palin. On today's Morning Joe, Wallace—who was Palin's chief handler during the 2008 campaign—took the occasion of Palin's speech at the Iowa Freedom Summit on Saturday to jab at the former veep candidate.

Wallace had been asked to comment on conservative columnist Byron York's panning of Palin's speech as "long, rambling, and at times barely coherent." York's column also passed along criticism of the speech by a number of Iowa Republicans. Wallace said that it was interesting to see York come "full circle," since back in 2008 he had been a staunch Palin defender, blaming the campaign for the way she was packaged. Wallace then doubled down with this dig: "This is who she is. This to me is evidence that she has finally shed last one of those annoying handlers." Reeoorw!

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: 2008campaign; 2016campaign; 2016election; demagogicparty; election2016; freedomsummit; getpalin; hatersgonnahate; iowa; iowafreedomsummit; markfinkelstein; memebuilding; morningjoe; nicollewallace; palin; palinhate; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; pds; romneydirtytrick; romneypalinization; sarahpalin; teamromney; uniparty
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Palin's chief handler

There's the rub, she couldn't 'handle' her.

21 posted on 01/26/2015 6:35:21 AM PST by AU72
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To: Arm_Bears

For her to go on MSNBC tells me everything about her and her ilk.


22 posted on 01/26/2015 6:36:53 AM PST by manc (Marriage =1 man + 1 woman,when they say marriage equality then they should support polygamy)
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To: raybbr
It WAS "long, rambling, and at times barely coherent." Boring, actually. I came away with no message or theme. Just a bunch of one-liners thrown out to see a reaction. Little applause or real laughter.

You're probably right.

My point is that Wallace acted extremely unprofessionally. This is not her place.

I would avoid Wallace like the plague if she was sent to work with me.

23 posted on 01/26/2015 6:37:04 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The left destroys anyone who they see as a threat to their stranglehold on power.


24 posted on 01/26/2015 6:37:34 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: manc
For her to go on MSNBC tells me everything about her and her ilk.


HER


HER ILK

25 posted on 01/26/2015 6:40:37 AM PST by Lazamataz (With friends like Boehner, we don't need Democrats. -- Laz A. Mataz, 2015)
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To: TexasCajun

Nicole is looking kinda . . . old. She hasn’t aged nearly as well as the woman who (in her mind only) is her rival. Purity of heart is what keeps one young, unfortunately for Nicole.


26 posted on 01/26/2015 6:41:57 AM PST by SamuraiScot
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To: TexasCajun

And now Perry Campaign staffers.


27 posted on 01/26/2015 6:44:36 AM PST by txhurl (They claim conservatives aren't electable yet they disguise themselves as conservatives to win.)
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To: mcjordansc

Her speech may “have been a mess” but she is head and shoulders above most if not all of the GOP loyalists field. She and Scott Walker are the only two with a track record worthy of my vote. The rest of the field is either GOPe or all sounds and fury, with no track record.


28 posted on 01/26/2015 6:44:46 AM PST by Tupelo (I feel more like Philip Nolan by the day)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yo, Nicolle, get lost.


29 posted on 01/26/2015 6:45:05 AM PST by Amagi (Lenin: "Socialized Medicine is the Keystone to the Arch of the Socialist State.")
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To: KC_Lion
Thank You fro the Ping SunkenCiv!

<;)

30 posted on 01/26/2015 6:46:40 AM PST by mabarker1 (congress, The Opposite of Progress.)
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To: KC_Lion

LMAO.


31 posted on 01/26/2015 6:53:29 AM PST by TADSLOS (The Event Horizon has come and gone. Buckle up and hang on.)
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To: Diogenesis

THIS SHOULD BE A RULE:

IF THE MEDIA HATE A CANDIDATE HE/SHE IS PROBABLY THE ONE WE WANT MOST


32 posted on 01/26/2015 6:53:56 AM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016 (for 16 years of conservative bliss))
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To: TexasCajun

The GOP infiltrators.
I am sure they are passing secrets to the RATS.


33 posted on 01/26/2015 6:54:45 AM PST by Zathras
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To: txhurl

Anyone who is fool enough to hire these two is not ready to be President.
They only serve McCain and he doesn’t share power.


34 posted on 01/26/2015 6:56:54 AM PST by Zathras
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Nicole’s roots were showing this morning. Can’t afford foils? Is she not getting her paycheck from The View?


35 posted on 01/26/2015 7:02:39 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard the Third: Loyalty Binds Me)
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To: Don Corleone

Yes... And I wonder how Byron York feels now that he’s solidly aligned with Wallace? I just listened to the Palin speech in question by the way... WTF? She rocked it Byron, again.


36 posted on 01/26/2015 7:05:07 AM PST by HMS Surprise (Chris Christie can STILL go straight to hell.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/as-2016-race-begins-gop-faces-its-palin-problem/article/2559245

From York’s essay, it appears Palin came on like Jimmy Fallon, a talk show host, when the junket was supposed to be about defining the candidates’ vision for the next 4 years. Reagan wrote a lot of his speeches, and he was message-oriented to the point that journos called him senile. But Americans understood that he was charming, but a serious man who talked about serious things. Palin’s talk show persona might (or might not) resonate with conservative voters, but it’s a big gamble.


37 posted on 01/26/2015 7:21:20 AM PST by Zhang Fei (Let us pray that peace be now restored to the world and that God will preserve it always.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Since we're so close to Groundhogs Day, I'll make this analogy -- about once a year, Palin --

1) sticks her head up out of the snow
2) teases that she is interested in running for president
3) gets her fan club worked up
4) sells a bunch more reality shows, books, speeches, etc because of the bump in coverage
5) and then, of course, never runs for president (or any other elected office)

38 posted on 01/26/2015 7:27:32 AM PST by gdani (Ebola exposed the U.S. as fearful, easy-to-manipulate weaklings)
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To: mcjordansc

Why do you think it was a mess?


39 posted on 01/26/2015 7:32:33 AM PST by ifinnegan
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To: mcjordansc

a mess?

I’d say it was 30 minutes of not saying little of substance, but she exhibited personality and made it a little entertaining. The other candidates said little and were boring.

No one at this stage is prepared to put forth a specific platform. All they will do now is get up and blab generalities. That’s not bad if the sum of it all is to make voters more inclined to vote conservative.

However, I’d like Palin to get more serious.


40 posted on 01/26/2015 7:39:56 AM PST by cymbeline
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