Posted on 10/04/2008 4:41:08 AM PDT by IbJensen
(GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin smiles at supporters as she steps off the campaign plane in Dalls on Friday - though she says she might've been happier to stump in another 'Big D:' Detroit.)
WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin is a little bit annoyed with John McCain, you betcha, and she isn't afraid to say so.
What set her off was the campaign's decision Thursday to wave the white flag of surrender in Michigan, and not bother to tell her. Palin said she found out Friday.
"I want to get back to Michigan and I want to try," Palin told Fox News. "I fired off a quick e-mail and said, 'Oh, come on, you know, do we have to? Do we have to call it there?'"
Palin said she and her husband, Todd, were willing to go back and work the state, where the GOP ticket trails by seven or eight points in most polls. The McCain campaign decided to pull down its advertising and move staff elsewhere.
I admire her spunk. McCain operatives need to let her go to Michigan. Sarah and Todd speak MY language. I was born and raised in Ohio. I live in Minnesota now. ........I love Minnesota, but I MISS Ohio.
I'd like to see Governor Palin do it. She should schedule quite a few speeches and visits in Michigan, not so many that she neglects the other swing states but enough that she stays in their news cycle and gives the Michigan voters a reason to vote thoughtfully.
Go, Sarah, Go!
A kangaroo is smarter than anyone in McCains camp. Unless they change their M.O. They..and we along with them. Are done for. Maybe if we call him and tell him we need a SURGE. He will get it. Or maybe he is incapable.
No doubt about it.
Whomever is running Sen. McCain’s campaign is wrong.
IF the decision was to “abandon” Michigan it is wrong
because it HURTS lower GOP races. Stupid.
And it would have been quite stupid to publicize it
since it shows weakness.
Still, the Democrats in Mihigan have got vote fraud down to a science ~ did you know they have more voters in Detroit than they've got people?
I love it...you gotta give the McCain camp some credit here...they are letting Sarah be Sarah and have let her go out there and campaign hard. The Bush handlers should be fired.
I heartilly agree with Gov. Palin! There should be NO SURRENDER of anything to the camp of the presumptuous one, Hussein (peace on him) and his minions.
Right. Votes from the dregs of the great society. Without a change in who can vote we are over the 50% threshold of democracy destroying itself with the progressive income tax.
Bonus: Also a good way to show that she DOES have a common-sense influence on McCain!
The Bush handlers are all burned out RINOs. Time to let them go.
Money could be playing a big part in the decision.
The McCain machine is running short of cash and they might have to pick their stops wisely.
Still - why visit a place you are strong in unless it is expected you would be cordial - but if you are running out of money - why not pick the places you need more votes in??
I don’t understand politics - I should shut up right now!
This is how you get bad appointees like Jim Webb ~ if they DIDN'T WORK THEIR WAY THROUGH.
That happened with RR came to office. The party machinery people were lax ~ didn't think he'd win ~ so it wouldn't be prudent to do all that work for nothing.
Then RR won in a landslide and there were turkeys in the pile and no turkey shooters ~ just standard party hacks.
Wonder what the McCain people have been doing in this regard? Probably nothing.
The ‘handlers’ aren’t this smart.
Very stupid action!
Note to JohnnyMac, go back to MI.
You can't win if you don't try.
Where are you getting this notion they are running out of cash?
That's what WE're here for...all kinds of good advice for free! ;-)
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