McCain Insiders: Sarah Palin Acting Like A Diva and Going Rogue »
Posted By dmwhipp 1 year, 1 month ago in Political NewsAs the final days of the campaign wind down, insiders from the McCain camp appear less than enchanted with vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin.
Let the infighting and blame game begin...
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xmarxspot1 year, 1 month ago
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UnusualSuspect1 year, 1 month ago
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Not too surprising...
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She also sees McCain as not winning the election, and now has to make sure she's putting forth her own agenda...
I do think she'll be around in 2012, and possibly 2016, but she won't make anymore headway than she has in 2008.
As the saying goes: "You don't get a second chance to make a first impression"... -
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ETproductions1 year, 1 month ago
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Scary because if the New Republican Party of "trickle-down" Reaganomics doesn't reinvent itself as something progressive, she is just the sort of leader they will seek.
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Scarry also because the disarray in the McCain camp shows exactly how incompetent the Senator is as a chief executive. If this man can't effectively control the relatively small staff of a campaign, God help America if he gets his hands on the controls of the massive federal bureaucracy and a country of 300 million people. -
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hyperbola1 year, 1 month ago
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Perhaps McCain should have found out what Sarah Palin actually is before he chose her to be VP candidate.
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Palin's Connections with Domestic Terrorists
The most compelling hypocrisy of the "terrorism" issue is Palin's own contemporary associations with fringe groups committed to themes of antigovernment violence. A number of reports have noted, for instance, Palin's association with the Alaska Independence Party (AIP), a group that is trying to get Alaska to secede from the United States. Largely unreported is the deeper extremism of the AIP and its national party organization, the Constitution Party. The Ayers story is a distraction from the real and ongoing relationships that Sarah Palin has with armed rightists, a story she invites with her vacuous allegations on "terrorism."
... The Constitution Party, formerly known as the U.S. Taxpayers Party (USTP), was founded in 1992 as an electoral vehicle for the growing vigilante movements that called themselves militias, as well as racists and violent antiabortion militants.
The origins of the national party go back to the American Independent Party of 1968, which was a joint effort of the John Birch Society and the Ku Klux Klan to run George Wallace for president. Various carryover elements, including the Birchers, led to the creation of the Constitution Party.
After the party was formed, a 1994 research report by Planned Parenthood, which was tracking antiabortion violence, characterized the group as "the new political home to a growing and unusual convergence of militant antiabortion leaders, elements of the violent and racist right, members of the John Birch Society and Far Right politicians."
...Sarah Palin maintained friendly relations with the Alaska branch of the Constitution Party for many years, according to many news reports. She attended their convention again in 2000 and in 2006 sought their support for her run for governor. In June 2008 she sent them a video wishing them "good luck on a successful and inspiring convention, keep up the good work and God bless you."..
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orndorffter1 year, 1 month ago
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I can't see someone acting this way, I realzed she couldn't understand the of what a Vice President repersened, she's going just a little to far and also costing McCain the eliction, and now she and McCain disagree on almost everything,and arugig thats not good for him at all, just maybe she might have problem thats been overlooked and needs medical care.
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Teech1 year, 1 month ago
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Lies on top of stupid on top of ignorant on top of ditzy on top of hubris.
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Potentially the most dangerous person in America. Sarah Palin.
Send her back to Wasilla where she can wreak havoc on the wolf population and not the world. At least she got a $150,000 wardrobe out of the whole deal. Plus she'll be the butt of jokes worldwide for years to come! -
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vor1 year, 1 month ago
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Don't kid yourself..get out and vote. This race isn't finished yet. She is still just a few million votes away from the VP's office with the oldest President elect in our history...and there are somehow apparently quite a few undecideds out there. Hard to believe with the clear division but by the polls true. A dangerous game.
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shawraider1 year, 1 month ago
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Get real. The constant onslaught of negative commentary against Sarah Palin is a shameful corruption of what should have been an honest and forthright report. Because she is not a
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Washington insider, a graduate of an Ivy League school and beause she is new to the scene, she has been castigated, her reputation smeared and her family defiled. Shameful! Legitimate news organiazaions, should reexamine their mission.-
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Natureboy1 year, 1 month ago
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" beause she is new to the scene, she has been castigated, her reputation smeared and her family defiled. Shameful! Legitimate news organiazaions, should reexamine their mission."
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Well, no, it actually has more to do with her being a religious fanatic, a flat-earther and an all-around tard. -
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hamy1 year, 1 month ago
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Really? Um...the press just reports. She actually said those things. No really, she did. So instead of attacking the people who are letting you know that the person you thought was the "Hockey mom who sitteth at the right hand of god" you should be thanking them.
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The media may be starved for stories right now so they act a little bit like sharks in a feeding frenzy, but they might have saved us from McCain/Palin.
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Poulenc1 year, 1 month ago
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Tee-hee!
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Saw this in the Times yesterday, and my first thought was, whatever else Palin is--or, more to the point, ISN'T--she sure is AMBITIOUS.
Got her eye out for number one.
The guy who plucked her from Pilktownville? He's history! Thrown under the bus, to use that nauseating phrase the right so loves.
But she's gonna live forever! She's gonna--I mean, goin'--to be a star!
Rude! Pathetic! Fabulous!
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chevydog1 year, 1 month ago
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I guess I've said it several times before , but..
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One of the best chances for Sen. Obama to become Prez is to paint McC as another Bush. This is what his campaign is trying madly to do. McC is running as the un-Bush; and Palin is out there sounding like Bush-femme. I'm surprised that someone from the McC campaign hasn't grabbed her politely around the neck, shaken a bit, and told her to get with the program.
I realize that it's hard to separate standard partisan nastiness from sexism, but one has to wonder how much of the latter is involved in this. When Joe Biden does stuff akin to this, it's put out as not being a yes-man.
It seems to me that there are some people out there who must be very scared of Palin. If she were an absolute non-factor, nobody would pay any attention to her--they'd just let her stew in her own juices. That that's not being done--she obviously gets a lot of attention-- means that she must be a very significant factor. -
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thaw1 year, 1 month ago
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imo.
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the mccain campaign's largest problem is its "snap decisions"
there dosen't seem to be anybody with enough gonads to say "hey, let's think about this decision, and what the consequences could be".
so, either mccain can't be reasoned with. or his handlers don't have a stick of brains, between the lot of them.
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Tangent0011 year, 1 month ago
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That's one of the things that troubles me about McCain--his propensity to 'shoot from the hip', even more so than Bush. McCain doesn't seem to trust anyone's opinion more than is own. During the economic crisis, McCain decided he was gonna ride in on his white horse and fix everything, even though he wasn't on any of the relevant committees. I think that speaks to a certain amount of hubris on his part and I don't think that is an appropriate temperament for a president.
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bonaroo1 year, 1 month ago
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Palin was chosen simply because she could deliver the Evangelical Christian vote which McCain desperately needed to solidify. In doing so he has sacrificed a large percentage of Independent votes and a large portion of Jewish Urban Votes in some battleground states like Florida. By doing so he has boosted his support in western states like Colorado which will give him a better shot at the electoral college votes. The other big faction that must not be ignored is the Military and Military industrialists which are closely allied with the Evangelical Christians.
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I am confident that Obama will win, however I am also aware that Rove is famous for his 50%+1 philosophy which means it really only takes 1 vote to win. It would be disastrous for the country if that were to happen, but if we've learned anything over the last eight years is that not only do they not care, but they relish the feeling of sticking it to Democrats.
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