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I swear, the McCain campaign now has more in common with a supermarket tabloid or Laguna Beach than a presidential campaign
However, there is a significant rift inside the McCain campaign.
Those loyal to McCain believe they have been unfairly blamed for over-handling Palin. They say they did the best they could with what they got.
They point to the bounce in the polls McCain got when he announced Palin as his running mate, her Republican convention speech, and her first interview with ABC’s Charles Gibson.
What didn’t work were the limited, subsequent media interviews, most notably between Palin and CBS anchor Katie Couric.
But some McCain camp insiders tell ABC News they simply couldn’t put Palin out in front of the media any more than they did because she wasn’t ready.
The Palin camp is fighting back, arguing that if the McCain campaign had just let Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin, she would have done just fine on her own.
And now Team Palin is fighting against Team McCain member Nicole Wallace by getting puppet Fred Barnes to say she was the one behind the $150,000 shopping spree.
Tune in next time, as the McCain campaign turns…
Sarah’s running the Brian Pillman loose cannon angle
Apparently the three big GOP names for 2012 are Romney, Huckabee, and Palin. I can’t imagine any of those being able to save the party.
Romney: “I’m rich, Bitch!” Try arguing you are there to support the middle class when you are worth $200 million. Plus, he’s Mormon and I don’t think the GOP base trust him.
Huckabee: One of the ‘nice’ religious conservatives who believes you should help the poor, not just bash the gays. But He’s too extreme right-wing on a couple of social issues for the independents, and too left wing on economic issues for the base.
Palin: She’s an idiot. AND, she’s a terrible candidate. If she wins, it will be 1984 in reverse and could hurt the party for decades to come.
Personally, I think it will be someone from we haven’t heard of coming to the front. But I can’t imagine who.
That said, we haven’t won this yet and we have to remember one thing…
A Always
B Be
C Closing.
Always be closing.
This excuse is put forward every time a campaign goes south and I have just never gotten this argument. Don’t understand why anyone would fall for it.
So, you want to help run the country and stare down Putin when he looks over the horizon, but you can’t even stand up for yourself in your own campaign?
So she’s going rogue now? Isn’t that somewhat of a synomyn for maverick? I wish these people would make up their minds what they are and what they want. Maybe they’ll get it together by December.
So she’s going rogue now?
Is that anything like Commando?
I guess when you got two Mavericks together, this is bound to happen.
Going rogue?
No, sorry for the confusion. She’s going rouge. Rouge cou!
Rouge cul!
Sarah’s running the Brian Pillman loose cannon angle
Careful, jr. Remember what happened to Pillman while he was playing that angle…don’t want the rightards to infer something evil from that remark.
Closest wrestling analogy I can think up this moment is Palin playing Stephanie McMahon to McCain’s Mister McMahon. And of course, the entire McMahon family sucks ass – in real life as well as in the ring.
Jindal 2012. The social conservatives love him, yet he doesn’t sound mentally deficient. He’ll bring the less-racist Palin fans together with the intellectuals. The former can swoon over his desire to castrate sex offenders and ban abortion even in cases of rape and incest; the latter can swoon over his Ivy League, Rhodes Scholar credentials. After he lost his first race, he learned how to politick among the bubbas and won his next two races. So long as enough of the hardcore racists in the party commit suicide over having a black president, Jindal is the clear choice.
However, I keep hearing people refer to it as Palin/ Jindal 2012, which is about as much testimony as we need for Republicans’ discomfort with having a person of color at the top. Never mind that he’s probably got twice the IQ and has a great track record of actual reform of Louisiana’s bureaucracy, particularly in health care. Somehow, Jindal gets assigned the VP position.
But Jindal is a Muslim exorcist, isn’t he? That’s what I heard.
Maybe he can get that damn ghost out of the Lincoln bedroom.
But Jindal is a Muslim exorcist, isn’t he?
Silly Duros. He’s a Republican Muslim exorcist. (Muslim. Hindu. Never mind. You’re on a roll.)
As we learned with adulterers, flip-floppers, bank socialists, rich guys, and draft dodgers, all those things are bad. If you’re a Democrat.
speaking o Adulterers……
how in the hell did the republicans become the party of morality?