Posted on 10/27/2008 2:38:41 PM PDT by DBCJR
Some aides to Sen. John McCain say they weren't happy that running mate Sarah Palin went off script Sunday...Palin deviated from her prepared remarks to talk about her wardrobe controversy Sunday.
... A senior McCain adviser told CNN those comments "were not the remarks we sent to her plane." ...A Palin aide said that the governor clearly felt like she had to say something to defend herself, because "that's really not who she is."
... sources told CNN that long-brewing tensions between Palin and key aides to McCain were on the rise.
McCain advisers suggested that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue."
McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls -- used to attack a candidate's opponent -- "irritating" even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan.
A McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.
"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," this McCain adviser said. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party... ...But this Palin source acknowledged that Palin is trying to take more control of her message, pointing to an impromptu news conference on a Colorado tarmac last week.
CNN contributor and Republican strategist Ed Rollins said Palin was "mishandled" during the earlier part of the campaign, and as a result, "she's become a target of a lot of ridicule."
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The media keeps trying to stir the pot. They can go to hell to put it nicely.
Are these the same Romneybot handlers we are hearing about? I’m glad she is going “rogue.”
McCain told Brokaw last Sunday that Palin didn’t need defending. End of story.
CNN crapaganda....so what else is new ?
Can we please stop posting this story... it’s like the 10th time I’ve seen it since yesterday...
It’s BS!!!!
To the ones who complained
Tough titty said the kitty
2 words for CNN.
Blow me!!!
There was an article earlier today that indicated these “McCain campaing insiders” who keep feeding info to the MSM are actually Romney operatives working on their own.
“She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.”
So, she doesn’t trust her family? I find this statement to be highly dubious.
Any McCain “advisor” who leaks this kind of divisive, demoralizing crap to CNN should be fired.
Unless, of course, CNN is just making it up out of whole cloth. Wouldn’t put it past them.
Must be a slow news day, huh CNN? Why don't you run another Michael Moore clip? I hear those are really pulling in the votes for Obama.
“Aides,” “advisors,” “sources,” and not a one of them with an actual name.
More CNN BS.
Go Sarah, GO !
This is a putrescent load. Didn’t get any truer in the last 10 threads either.
Show Me State!!!
The Middle Digit!!!
The political world is absolutely full of faggot staffers like this source who think they’re right 100% of the time, even though they’ve never had a real job in their life and the average voter would find them nauseating after 2 minutes. Palin is a real person who has good instincts and should be given general guidance, not word-for-word scripts to follow. If McCain’s “people” don’t realize this, then they are just as incompetent as this campaign has shown them to be. The ONLY thing McCain has going for him is that Sarah Palin could kick every Democrat’s ass in America and is a great conservative. She is the only reason he’s even in the race at this point and if he wins it can be attributed to her.
Reagan went off script with “Mr. $orbachev, Tear Down This Wall!”
These aides have apparently forgotten that THEY aren’t running. Talk about egos! Why do they think she has rallied the base? Because she is REAL, not BS/aide packaged DC garbage. (Yes, I am calling these aides that.)
You go, Mrs. Palin!
Sheesh.
She needs to keep it up...she’s trying to drag John McCain across the finish line.
So I guess you could call her a maverick.
Memo to the aforementioned “aides”...
...whose names are on the campaign signs?
The only life period, as there was no life to his campaign before he brought her on board. If these are actual campaign personnel, they need to be fired. It’s just as likely though that they are phantoms, made up entirely by CNN to support Obama.
i dont believe a word of it. are they saying aides dont know their position? Who do they think they are?
Palin is running with someone?
Amen, brother. Without her they’d lose by 20 points. With her they have a chance. Felony Stupid: they let the Katie Couric stuff go on day after day after day instead of putting her on someplace else right away too.
To the ones who complained
Tough titty said the kitty
...when the milk went dry. OMG, that is racist cause the milk is white! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Shall we poll Sarah Palin's family on the matter?
Whomever this wretch is, he/she should be tarred and feathered dumped in the Arizona dessert.
This is a bogus story.
The CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/MSM’s are going after her with everything they’ve got, and its not because she is a drag on the McCain campaign, its because she is the one thing that has kept him in the game. Without her they’d have frozen him out and his presidency would be safely smothered in the crib.
As it is she has injected exactly the life into his campaign that he needed. They’ve got to take her down because 5 seconds after they do, McCain gives up the ghost. It isn’t going to happen, though. They just may win. They have to overcome the ACORN factor, the inmate factor, the dead voter factor, but they may just do it.
or, as I saw in another thread-
“They can kiss the fattest part of my arse!”
Note the CNN tag.
McCain should get all his ‘top aides’ on a conference call and demand those who were sources for this story to man up and admit it. Then he should fire them.
The McCain Camp needs to STFU. It’s because of Palin McCain has even half a chance in this election!
Sounds like the McCain camp needs a serious shake up in personnel again.
Those aides are not doing Team McCain any favors by complaining about Palin’s remarks.
One major case would be “woman-up”
I find this statement to be highly dubious.
I find it to be poor sentence structure.
CNN - Crappy News Network
they can report about “so-called” tensions in the McCain camp, but completely obliterate any divisions that the Hillary voters are experiencing and will NOT go for Obama because of his fraudulent, strong arm tactics during the primaries. CNN is BS!
If that comment was really made by a McCain staffer, that person needs to be fired immediately!
And I don’t care if the McCain bus is driving through the middle of the f**king desert. You just say to the aide, “You’re fired. But you’re lucky. We’re gonna drop your ass off at the next city/town/crossroads instead of dumping you at the side of the road. You can find your own way home”.
So, she’s being a “maverick”?
McCain should find out who’s talking to cnn and fire their butt. That’s what I call “going off script”.
If you didn’t believe the slimes over at CNN up to now about the ‘inevitability’ of Obama why should you believe Dana Bash reporting this crap who by the way is married to that slimeball John King who tried to suppress the Republican turnout last Monday in Colorado by ‘reporting’ the McCain campaign was moving its resources out of Colorado, which happened to be the same day as Sarah was holding 3 rallies there. At night over pillow talk they probably compare notes on how successful they were in screwing the McCain campaign (nil). Probably that’s what their sex life is as well.
Why? Who are you referring to?
‘Man up’ is an expression; ‘woman up’ isn’t.
I didn’t know that Sen. John McCain has aides.
Maybe he’ll get relief doing whatever Magic Johnson did.
I think they’re going after her because they genuinely fear her in 2012 even with an Obama win next week. They know four years of working as Gov in Alaska, and picking up a team of good advisers, and acquiring a breadth of knowledge and experience will make her a truly formidable candidate in 2012. Her campaigning skills and her ability to connect with the people over the heads of the media are Reaganesque.
So it is in Obama’s and the dems’ and their lackeys in the media’s interest to destroy her now.
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