’)For the second time in as many days, Sarah Palin has publicly expressed disagreement with the McCain campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan (a decision the state party is lamenting in public as well). This gives McCain two options:
1) Stay the course: This makes his running mate look like more of a ninny and adds to the state party’s malaise
2) Flip flop: Wastes money in a state he’s going to lose anyway, and feeds into the erratic and desperate John McCain narrative
This discord also helps to show the public once again which campaign has its stuff together and which is just lurching from one minute to the next.
Excellent work, Agent Palin. Await further orders from HQ…
Why does the McCain campaign keep flip-flopping? Americans want steady leadership (or so I’ve read, since that flip-floppy John Kerry would’ve been such a mistake). McCain offers none of it.
More the the point, the McCain campaign is amateur hour. Message cohesion is rule number one of a modern-day political campaign, and McCain isn’t capable of it.
Sarah Palin is an agent of Sarah Palin. She really thinks she can win the Presidency in 2012, and her beef with the McCain campaign is a way of being able to say “I would have won in Michigan! I should have been at the top of the ticket in ‘08! I’m not a loser like that old man!”
The most over-inflated self-esteem ever.
More the the point, the McCain campaign is amateur hour. Message cohesion is rule number one of a modern-day political campaign, and McCain isn’t capable of it.
Well that’s just it. I can’t think of any way for this to look good for the GOP ticket. Insofar as it matters, the evidence points to Sen. McCain and Gov. Palin not having developed a close working relationship. Prezes and VPs have disagreed on policy issues in the past, pretty often – but I can’t remember any other examples of open griping about election strategy.
Are we sure that McCain really intends to shut down his campaign in Michigan? Is this another stunt like “suspending” his campaign to solve the bail out crisis or postpone the convention to deal with a hurricane? Is he trying to fire up his Michigan volunteers so that they can “turn it around” and persuade him to come back and prove the polls wrong?
We have miles to go before we sleep, let alone take our foot off the gas, but it just might be that the McCain-Palin Campaign is approaching its Michael Ray Richardson Moment (google that name and “ship be” if you don’t grasp the reference).
That’s awesome. She’s already second-guessing her boss.
calling all toasters: Sarah Palin is an agent of Sarah Palin. She really thinks she can win the Presidency in 2012
Palin/Quayle ‘12!