Should McCain’s Campaign Have Muzzled Palin on Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Racism? (Video)

The Examiner ^ | July 28, 2013 | Kevin Fobbs

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When truth is prevented from ever reaching the ears of the American public during a presidential campaign the consequences can often be tragic. Consider the case of the 2008 mainstream media cover up and strict avoidance of Obama’s long time connection to Black Nationalist minister Jeremiah Wright and his firebrand racist comments. The media shackled the truth and allowed then U.S. Senator Obama to skate all the way to his election as president.

What is even worse was former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin’s recent revelation that the John McCain presidential campaign actually banned her from talking about Rev. Jeremiah Wright or anarchist Bill Ayers. Think about the repercussions of how an informed American public could have at least had the opportunity to discuss as well as evaluate this information with the fullness a vice presidential candidate’s focus would have offered.

Why did McCain Presidential Campaign Silence Palin discussion on Rev. Wright and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers . Why did McCain Presidential Campaign Silence Palin discussion on Rev. Wright and domestic terrorist Bill Ayers

Typically it is the vice presidential candidate who is given the task to reveal the underbelly of the opposition’s campaign and bring attention to issues that a presidential candidate seeks to avoid discussing.

But instead of engaging in a fully spirited public campaign discussion that would have given Sarah Palin the ability to point out these glaring inconsistencies she was silenced. She is right to be appalled......

[Truth2012]

I agree with you, and it worked. The reason I do not talk Sarah seriously, and never really have, is because of her support of that stupid idiot McCain AFTER the election.

She played politics- so she showed me she is a politician. Not a Patriot.

If she made a mistake, she should admit and ask for forgiveness.

[353FMG]

>I believe that McCain was oblivious to what was going on in his campaign.<

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You’re telling me that McCain was a Trojan horse’s ass?

He hasn’t changed much since that time, hasn’t he?

[Cicero]

I’m not even sure how much McCain had to do with it. McCain had his mysterious “handlers,” and he did whatever they told him to do.

The two guys who were given the job of handling Sarah were lent to the McCain campaign by Mitt Romney. So, their purpose may have been to ensure that McCain lost, to prepare the way for Romney’s next try.

In any case, there’s not much doubt about the fact that when McCain chose Sarah Palin to be his VP, it gave his numbers a big bounce. The high point of his campaign was the nomination celebration, when Sarah was allowed to give her one and only speech to a national audience, without a muzzle on and two handlers handcuffed to her ankles.

[Cicero]

Nonsense. Sarah owed McCain some loyalty for choosing her, and she paid the debt. She gave him about two days on the campaign trail. And she said very, very little in his support the rest of the time. She simply refrained from criticizing him, and I can’t blame her for that. Not her job, in the circumstances.

[andy58-in-nh]

Either loser Steve Schmidt is the stupidest strategist ever or he’s a demmunist party plant.

Glad you brought up his name. Schmidt is a Progressive, liberal Republican who somehow continues to wield influence over the party in spite of his impressive streak of losing campaigns. He is not the only one of his ilk, either. It is well-known in GOP circles that he absolutely, positively loathes Sarah Palin and opposed her as the choice for McCain's VP.

I am convinced that virtually the entire class of Republican strategists in Washington would be quite content to lose the next two or three election cycles if they could only rid the GOP of its conservative Tea Party base.

The plan would be to replace them with a new "base" of largely secular, socially liberal, and economically moderate voters largely composed of former Democrats who now consider themselves "independent".

People who believe in (and live off of) Big Government, and who see no role for Judeo-Christian values in public life have no use for real conservatives.

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Should McCain’s Campaign Have Muzzled Palin on Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Racism?

Seeing as how it resulted in a loss, I would say "no!"

[Jane Long]

You may not take Sarah seriously, but I think THEY take her seriously. For the exact reason you stated...even mcShame realized the value of a Sarah Palin endorsement.