Posted on 11/14/2008 4:54:07 AM PST by RobinMasters
It’s still odd that someone would see a battle of wits between Katie Couric and Sarah Palin as a fight Couric would win. Jeff Bercovici of Portfolio.com reported in a brief item that Couric revealed in a panel discussion that she boned up with anti-Palin foreign-policy advisors before interviewing the Alaska governor. Peter Kafka of All Things Digital featured this piece of the Bercovici report:
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But she only did it in the interest of objectivity, right?????
So Katie had anti-Palin advisers beyond just Nicolle Wallace!
Sorry, but the mistake was allowing Couric an opportunity to interview Palin in the first place.
Couric didn’t deserve the privilege.
My heart falls with every one of these articles.
WHAT was McCain thinking to let her go on with this harpie?
Mccain wasn’t thinking about Gov. Palin. His EGO doesn’t allow him to think about anyone but himself. Mccain isn’t the brightest bulb either.
Not surprising in the least. About the only thing she had to do to bone up for interviewing Zero was put on a pair of knee pads.
The handlers mishandled and we should put them all out to pasture
"I'm an anti-Palin foreign-policy adviser."
Your mother must be so proud...
IMHO McCain was thinking.."folks are starting say they wish the ticket was flipped??? Well, I'll fix that".
Sorry but most people outside our circle saw her screw up in the interview, and it was Mccain’s fault not hers. We have to admit when our side does stuff that cant sell or 2010 will be like 2006+2008.
Oh, I’m sure Katie studied with some pro-Palin people too. Didn’t she? No?
McCain’s people totally mismanaged Palin’s early days. They should have quickly put her on a lot of friendly talk radio shows in cities around the country and also national shows like Rush, Prager, Hanitty, etc. Then friendly TV. THEN, AND ONLY THEN, throw her into the lion pit. But no, they have to start at the end of the cycle after keeping her in hiding for a while.
For some time now, I’ve been considering the concept that Republicans looked hard at all of the indicators that suggested a nation on the cusp of complete failure, financially, socially, and every which way. They concluded at some point that it would be better for them to not be in charge when the failure happened.
So, they decided to throw the election to the Dims.
I’m not so sure that’s a tin hat theory, but I’m not 100% convinced of it either.
Anyone in politics or any competitive field has to be able to survive the worst, fair or not.
The Couric interview isn’t the reason for antipathy towards Sarah. She is Christian, conservative and unapologetic. The base loves her. Therefore, the establishment on all sides hate her. She came out of nowhere and her enemies had to scramble for ammunition against her. She has years to change things. She did fine at the Governor’s conference, but she has rivals there, as well. I saw a few snarky comments from other GOP governors. It is probably worse behind the scenes.
If there isn’t an organized base and contributors and something to offset the 3,000 zerOids online, it won’t matter if she even runs. We will not win unless we do the same things they do, and do them better.
LLS
I totally agree. I have some massive schadenfreude waiting for Couric. The more that is leaked from former campaign "people" supports the hit job on by Couric and some McCain staffers theory.
While it's certainly possible that McCain is simply a horrible campaigner, I think McCain's mission was to lose and, if possible, take Palin down with him. It's that or he wanted to lose and was very successful.
I’m not a big Michael Savage person but at 10pm it’s him or Dr. Laura on the radio.
Savage said the same about McCain.
I heard this morning that Karl Rove commented that Sarah Palin needed “seasoning” before 2012...
I may be wrong, but I feel Sarah Palin should be left alone and NOT turned into the same old Washington “insider” that runs for office year after year...Let Sarah be Sarah...
I don’t want someone who is changed into what some beaurocrat wants.......
The interview was negotiated by McCain staffer Nicole Wallace, who used to work for Ms. Couric. The terms of that negotiation which were absurdly unfavorable to Palin & indeed would have been unfair to any candidate (allowing CBS free reign on editing & letting them dribble out their hatchet job over three nights, etc.), were negotiated' by Katie's friend & former employee.
No other campaign staffer worth their salt ANYWHERE would have have even dreamed of letting their candidate go anywhere near CBS under such a ridiculously lop-sided & disadvantageous arrangement.
It was widely reported that Ms. Wallace was not happy with McCain's Veep choice, and evidently she decided she'd rather sabotage her current boss's chances of winning the White House completely rather than risk Palin ever getting the opportunity to sleep at Blair House.
Despite her tepid denial, Wallace also happens to be the primary suspect behind all the anonymous dirt being spread on Palin. So, from all available evidence, we can deduce that Ms. Wallace is most definitely not a team player.
But ultimately, you are completely correct: it was John McCain who entrusted someone who was clearly not worthy of his or Palin's faith with the power to sink his own ticket, so he has to take the blame for the truly raw deal Palin got from his own hand-picked staffers.
Maybe not the exact words... but close enough.
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