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Trashin Palin…. by McCain aides…
Posted by Duncan on November 6th, 2008
Trashing her now so that she won’t be a viable candidate in 2012 perhaps? I wonder who these unnamed aides are. My wife and I watched Carl Cameron’s report and our jaw dropped at the pettiness being displayed at these “scandalous reports” about her. Sorry, but I seriously doubt that Sarah Palin didn’t realize the Africa was a continent and not a country of itself. Ofcourse, that fits into the “dumb Alaskan redneck hickjick who likes guns and is a former backwater beauty queen” narrative quite nicely.
To believe it, you have to believe she figured out a way to become governor of Alaska while somehow lacking the mental power to piece together which three nations might be involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement.
The McCain campaign’s classless cowards
By Michelle Malkin • November 5, 2008 10:29 PMThe anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin by blabbermouth McCain aides who are leaking to Fox News is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting.
Allah’s got the vid clip of a report citing unnamed McCain staffers accusing Palin of lacking, in Carl Cameron’s words, “knowledgeability.”
At least all the Hollywood and Manhattan Palin-haters were willing to sign their names and put their faces on their attacks.
Yep, anonymous staffers and aides spreading this, sounds like a MSM article full of “unnamed sources”. Fake but accurate anyone?
And Ace is pissed:
Now we’re really getting into the shit.
Here’s a story these staffers tell: Sent to collect Palin from a hotel, she greeted them, straight from the shower (running late, I guess ) dressed (scandal!) only in a bathrobe (presumably a very thick hotel bathrobe).
These staffers called that “uncommon” — Cameron delighted in the word to give it the sound of “whorish, unprofessional.”
Heh, assholes? She had to open the door and had just gotten out of the shower. Did you want her to use her magical powers of telekinesis to open the door for you?
This apparent scandalous reaction to a woman just out of the shower not making them wait outside but letting them into the suite wearing a bathrobe… well. Okay.
I want names.
Yeah. Carl Cameron must have had his sexual advances rebuffed by Palin or something, because the way he reported this was like a lover scorned, getting back, or like an excited teenager in gym class talking about “girls naughty parts” because he snuck into their locker room. It was really pathetic actually.
And Ace is not the only one wanting names. Red State is creating Operation Leper:
RedState is pleased to announce it is engaging in a special project: Operation Leper.
We’re tracking down all the people from the McCain campaign now whispering smears against Governor Palin to Carl Cameron and others. Michelle Malkin has the details.
We intend to constantly remind the base about these people, monitor who they are working for, and, when 2012 rolls around, see which candidates hire them. Naturally then, you’ll see us go to war against those candidates.
It is our expressed intention to make these few people political lepers.
They’ll just have to be stuck at CBS with Katie’s failed ratings.
This is a blatant attempt to smear Palin and make her look like some ignorant backwoods, slutty diva. These McCain aides don’t like Palin, that much is obvious. Whether they don’t like her because they didn’t want her on the ticket, or blame her for its failure, I dunno. But they sure as hell don’t want her on any ticket in 2012. Why else would they spread such stories, true OR false?
I hope they find out who these people are. Perhaps Palin herself could get wind of this and tell us who these “anonymous McCain aides” are, especially the ones who showed up while she was naked, writhing on the floor in orgasm in her bath-robe/towel.
November 6th, 2008 at 2:21 am
McCain needs someone to blame for his loss and Palin is a good scapegoat. Unfortunately the real reason why McCain lost is because Republicans are divided into two very distinct, almost opposing, groups. Social conservatives (like Palin) and fiscal conservatives (like Mitt Romney). Because McCain couldn’t appeal to social conservatives he chose Palin as a running mate. What resulted was a ticket no republican could get excited about. Social conservatives still don’t like McCain (he is too moderate) and fiscal conservatives don’t like Palin (she’s a “redneck”).
November 6th, 2008 at 6:30 am
Please. It’s very simple. These clowns are attempting to deflect the blame from themselves. They are worried their mishandling of the campaign, especially when it comes to Governor Palin, will cause their future employment to be problematic at best. The fact is, McCain shouldn’t have done nearly as well as he did and that is all because of Palin. They ought to be taking credit for that, and acknowledging her role in that relative success.
I also am appalled (once again, but not surprised) by the reporting of gossip, the complete lack of corroboration, the anonymous sources. I’m actually surprised by Cameron here. I thought he was a good reporter. Locker room, junior high school, teenage girl backbiting. Bah!
November 6th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Pretty much sums it up nicely..
November 6th, 2008 at 9:49 am
DJ, I partially agree. Trying to find a scapegoat after losing is very much part of human nature, and McCain and his supporters are no exception. That said, I think that McCain has mostly himself to blame. “Suspending” his campaign, going back to DC to vote on the bailout, and then voting for the resulting pork-laden bill (and going against his self-proclaimed image as being unfriendly to pork), pretty much threw the polls back into Obama’s favor. He actually missed a huge opportunity. Had he voted against the bailout, which Obama voted for, he could have painted Obama as being more like Bush than himself on this matter.
As for the two Republican camps, I don’t think that they’re almost opposing each other, but instead have different priorities. There are some who are socially conservative and fiscally liberal, like Huckabee, and vice versa, like Giuliani, but these two aspects of conservatism are not necessarily at odds.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
These idoits are trying to find a scapegoat tokeep ther jbs forthe next campaign. Pure and simple tactic of the typical Washington political hack.
If anyone thinks that she did not know that Africa is a continent, I got a bridge in Alaska to sell you. And coming to the door in a robe, my gosh burn the Witch.
This is a pathetic attempt bythe Bushies that McCain hired for his campaign. Which was wrong all the way around, McCain is totally different from Bush and they screwed the pooch with handling Sarah. They tried to rein her in, when they should have unleashed her.
November 7th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Just keep closing your eyes and pretending you’re in Kansas. It’s obvious to anyone who saw the Couric interview that it’s quite plausible that Plain didn’t know Africa was a continent, and that she had, as McCain aides claim, “… real problems with basic civics, government structures, municipal, state, and federal government responsibilities. She didn’t know the nations involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)… She wasn’t actually able to name all of the countries in North America…”
Yes, you could tell this from her interviews, and that is why they kept her under wraps and tried not to let her speak unscripted. Most of the country recognized it.
But you just keep on denying it.
November 7th, 2008 at 10:45 am
You’re kidding, right? I know this fits the narrative in your mind that Sarah Palin is an ignorant hick from Alaska, drinking moose blood and taking away abortion rights single-handily, but, RLY? You expect me to actually believe that Sarah Palin didn’t now the countries in North America??? I mean, it is easy to forget Canada and Mexico… oh… I know, she forgot the U.S. is a country in North America. Easily done, I suppose. You know what else, I heard she thought the WORLD WAS FLAT and the SUN REVOLVES AROUND THE EARTH!!
Yes, I’m making fun of you now. I could easily say that Obama can’t speak without a teleprompter, because he doesn’t have a long-term memory and his short-term memory is only 15 seconds long, which is why David Axelrod had a computer chip implanted in Obama’s brain that he can type responses in, but when it malfunctions, it goes into a fallback mode of “uhs” and “uhs”.
See. This can be fun…. :roll:
November 7th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
Ed. Please do nt makeafool of yourself. the Couric interview was cut and paste type journalism to make her look bad. And I would like to know anykid that had 2parents that were teachersthat dd noot know Africa was a continent. If you can find me one, please tell me where I can find them. that would be an amazing story.
And she hadto deal with Canada, you know a the NAFTA partner while governor of Alaska. And let me ask you which countries are in North America???? Is it only Canada, USA and Mexico, or do you puti n Belize, El Salvador, and a few others???? Because depending on who you are talking to, North America includes Central American countries also.
We need to purge these poltical hacks form the GOP. They are why we lost to the most liberal candidate ever for the Presidency. They have been infected with the DC disease of thinking only of themselves and not the country. And we need to purge all the corrupt Republicans, and there are many. Guess why they lost in 2006 and 2008???? They became drunken sailors just like the Democrats.
The GOP needs to get its act together, or we are going to have Left Wing Preisidents for the forseeable future.