John McCain's Campaign Staffers Unload on Sarah Palin -- Politics Daily »
Posted By Eagle_Eye 5 months ago in Political News"Diva", "whack job", a one-woman "Little Shop of Horrors" -- those are just a few of the choice descriptions that some of John McCain's former campaign staffers have used to describe Sarah Palin, McCain's ex-running mate. Vanity Fair's Todd S. Purdum spoke with several of the disgruntled McCain people (all of whom requested anonymity), and lays out a compelling chronology for the acrimony:
As Palin piled misstep on top of misstep, the senior members of McCain's campaign team have undergone a painful odyssey of their own. In recent rounds of long conversations, most made it clear that they suffer a kind of survivor's guilt: they can't quite believe that for two frantic months last fall, caught in a Bermuda Triangle of a campaign, they worked their tails off to try to elect as vice president of the United States someone who, by mid-October, they believed for certain was nowhere near ready for the job, and might never be.
Though McCain himself has had mostly nice things to say about Palin since the election, many of the people who worked to help elect him aren't feeling so beholden to maintaining the image of a match made in heaven. In fact, the portrait that emerges from Purdum's piece is that Palin's selection was a woefully rushed hail Mary. Palin was not prepared for the national stage, and according to Purdum's sources, she remains that way to this day:
In the aftermath of the November election, the conventional wisdom among Palin's supporters in the Republican establishment was that she should go home, keep her head down, show that she could govern effectively, and quietly educate herself about foreign and domestic policy with the help of a cadre of experienced advisers. She has done none of this.
Palin has yet to announce whether she intends to run for re-election in Alaska, or whether to attempt another go at higher office. To hear many McCain insiders tell it, they're seriously hoping for the former.
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b-happy5 months ago
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How is Alaska Doing these days? It always says more about the people who are making fun of Palin than it does about Palin. Arizona going to shiat. California going to shiat. Chicago always shiat and that's where Obama is from but let's just make fun of Sarah Palin cuz Alaska is the only state with a savings.
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Cuz you know us Liberals. Were all about womens rights and stuff. I mean jeez those neocons are so hate filled that we have to stop this Stupid Dumb Biatch skanky ***** Palin from ruining our country. SHe is just a white trash Dumbo. Oh ya and we love women and their rights don't forget that.
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Endoscopy5 months ago
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This sounds like a liberal group putting words into their mouths. If this is real it is sour grapes. Their man was fading until Palin joined the ticket. Then McCain went into the lead with her help.
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Liberals went ballistic creating 2 to 3 stories a day for weeks that appeared on this site that were absolute lies. The liberals just lapped them up and still tell some of those lies. Even that did not hurt the Republicans in the polls. What hurt McCain was the financial collapse. After that he was down in the polls from that point on. So this story is a lie. Palin helped bring life into the ticket.-
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dvtexan5 months ago
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What "lies" are you speaking of? Care to list them if they are real?
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I just hope that the GOP does not try to run this woman with any hope at taking back the white house. We need to have two serious candidates running so there is a choice. If this is the best they can come up with, maybe the green party or some other indep. will run to make things interesting.
I think Obama is doing well but this country needs the best possible people to run every election.
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