Posted on 11/07/2008 3:32:58 AM PST by NCDragon
There was more war than there was peace on the McCain-Palin ticket, American voters are starting to learn, especially in the last few weeks of the presidential election as top lieutenants serving the senator from Arizona became increasingly appalled by the freelancing ways of the very well-dressed governor from Alaska.
McCain barely knew Palin when he chose her. And aside from those few rallies when they appeared together, for instance in Hershey, Penn., one week before polling day, they barely spoke to each on the trail, especially towards the end.
The recriminations will be flowing both ways. Palin, who has returned to Alaska after commenting briefly on the tensions in Arizona on Wednesday, has more reason to manage the post-poll gossip trading to her advantage than does McCain. He is returning to his Senate job and his ambitions beyond are of the golfing variety. Not so Palin, whom some see as a future leader of her party.
"There is absolutely no diva in me," she told reporters in Phoenix. If she meant it to be good-humored, the context was much more brittle. Diva was the pejorative term applied to Palin in the dying days of the campaign by an unidentified source in the McCain circle. On the day she and McCain appeared together in Hershey, a writer for the Politico website reported a McCain aide calling her a "whack job."
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McCain needs to strongly rebuke these vermin.
And we need their names on list, and remember the names going forward.
They should never get work again for a Rep candidate.
The problem is, she became much more popular than McCain.
RINOs cannot have a true Conservative out front again. Especially one who threatens their gravy train and cushy political careers.
Three days and counting...silence...tick, tick, tick...
Why do we constantly pounce on that rubber mouse the MSM throws at us. Seems we would learn that it is phony and shouldn’t be eaten.
But, I bet they're sitting at their monitors, right now, laughing at how easy it is to fool you people.
Go suck your McCain.com pacifier, little boy.
As bad as the McCain team was, they are the ones who need to be drummed out of politics forever.
I swore one year ago that I would vote the bottom of our ballot, local and state issues, and none of the above for president.
Because of Sara Palin, I ended up donating $1,000 and beating everyone I know over the head to vote for her.
You just don't get it do you?????? I could care less what she looks like, or if she is a woman, black, white, Asian, etc. To suggest that people support her because she is “attractive”; is condescending and ignorant.
She represents a vision that many of us have for the future.
We see America as a can do nation, where individual spirit and initiative is prized and looked up to. We don't look to a large central government as a solution to our problems, we look at a large central government as a cancer that will destroy us.
We don't dislike someone who has a degree from Harvard, in fact most of us realize that type of training is very valuable in the correct context. We just give more credence to life experience and common sense.
In short we believe in the greatness of America. We see our nation as a special place; as beacon for freedom and individual liberties.
And we see Sarah Palin as someone who really understands that.
I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt: I’ll assume you’re just too dense to realize that you’re an unwitting tool of the true enemy.
But, nonetheless, you’re an embarrassment.
I would like to see her in the U.S. Senate in 2009!
Oohh, are you gonna put me on your list now, you little brownshirt? Piss off.
Why does your last comment not surprise me?
Huckabee & his supporters here & elsewhere were behind the smearing of Romney aides by insisting that they were spreading the Palin slanders. (Those smears turned out to be completely false; the people responsible were NOT Romney people.)
And Huck's people got a handy 2-fer by doing so, didn't they? They helped undermine Palin by getting the Wallace/Davis/Schmidt garbage against her out there to go wider & simultaneously discredited Romney to boost their guy's 2012 chances.
Despicable. Unfortunately, it's also classic Huck.
Palin will have plenty of time to prove her mettle for 2012 just like all the other qualified candidates currently out there: Cantor, Jindal et al. Four years is a long time, and who knows what kind of leader the nation will need that far down the road?
The best person to head the party's ticket then may well be someone we haven't even heard of yet.
But Huck is an ignorant underhanded buffoon & a religious bigot to boot. I sure as hell want no part of any party that would even consider elevating such petty little fraud to serve as its standard bearer.
If we think Palin was savaged by the MSM, Huckabee would be crucified, and not without justification.
When I read your inane comments the phrase, “Hook, line and sinker” comes to mind.
Stay away from sharp objects, please.
Sarah Palin is the only reason I bothered to vote at all. McCain and his ilk better sit down and shut up before they alienate real conservatives such as my self for good.
Mike
“This is exactly what the Obama people, who started this, wanted.”
Check out the facts next time before you post. There have been names named already; of the staffers who have been saying this.
Don’t post foolish things to start false arguments. I’m sure the Obama people have a bit important things to worry about right now.
This is a fight for who’s ideas control the Republican party in the future.
That's what they did and are doing. This damnable mess did not emanate from the McCain camp or even from Republicans.
This is classic Saul Alinsky: Rules 12 and 5.
No doubt about it.
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