Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?

National Review ^ | 2009-07-01 | Mark Hemingway

[rabscuttle385]

The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign. At issue is a question that was never resolved following McCain’s loss in November: Who in the McCain campaign was secretly trashing Sarah Palin to the press?

[NormsRevenge]

uhhh.. trash rolls downhill, this came from the top of the campaign is my guess.

[San Jacinto]

It’s McQueeg his own self who is the leaker — either directly or indirectly.

[Donald Rumsfeld Fan]

RULES

[Cyber Liberty]

This is worth knowing....

[rabscuttle385]

[housedeep]

Who cares really?
It is old news and Sarah has already begun a nice image repair cycle.

[napscoordinator]

What is she doing with that American Flag...I wish that was not in the picture.

[henkster]

“Who in the McCain campaign was secretly trashing Sarah Palin to the press?”

Considering that the incompetent boobs that ran that miserable excuse of a campaign should never again be hired to run so much as an election campaign for high school senior class secretary, the answer should be “why should we care?”

But because somebody will recycle this trash, I guess we have to.

[Zathras]

I suspect Steve Schmidt.
Lots of connections between him and the "log Cabin repubucrats"

[winner3000]

I hope these two “advisors” are never hired by any Republican running for office, not if they want conservative votes.

[campaignPete R-CT]

What follows is the email exchange with Bill Kristol that Schmidt rooted out, where Scheunemann speculates that the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband. Read from the bottom up:

——- Original Message ——- From: Randy Scheunemann To: William Kristol

Sent: Sat Oct 25 19:44:44 2008 Subject: Re: who is this?

He is beyond pretentious - and knows something about divas, being married to one Mw is arrogant, incompetent, annoying

(Mw is Mark Wallace)

“Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, aired his Texas statewide finance committee members ... Mark Wallace (Houston) - Wallace is president and CEO of Texas Children’s Hospital, the nation’s largest children’s hospital.”
1 posted on Wednesday July 01 16:16:47 2009 by campaignPete R-CT
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To: campaignPete R-CT

http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/legislature/entries/2007/03/27/romney_declares_texas_finance_committee.html

there’s the link on our friend, Mark Wallace. Husband of Nicolle and Romney insider.

[Jewbacca]

Romney is all over it.

They trashed everyone.

Romney needs to go to Hell.

[PGR88]

While the country is in a battle for its life to not elect the metro-sexual marxist Obama, all these idiots at campaign HQ can do is come up with this high-school cr@p so they have the chance to see themselves quoted on CNN.

Such disloyalty is disgusting.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Puh-Leeze!

[Cheetahcat]

“I suspect Steve Schmidt.
Lots of connections between him and the “log Cabin repubucrats”

Yes and I would bet money those crap bags voted for the Commie anyway.

[raptor29]

Oh, and I forgot one thing: Screw you, Romney, and screw all of your subordinates who are also out there spreading this crap. You big puss, you had a chance to stand up during that campaign and you pussed out, like the weak phony you are.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Ping to #12---Mark Wallace served on Romney's Texas Finance Committee.

NAILED!

[Diogenesis]

Late in October, The American Spectator's The Prowler revealed:
"Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin's bid for the White House,
have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election.
'Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won't be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,'
says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin.
'The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney.
He's in charge on November 5th.'"
The Prowler added: "Some former Romney aides were behind the recent leaks to media, including CNN, that Governor Sarah Palin was a 'diva' and was going off message intentionally."
The Romney supporters in the McCain campaign had access to internal polling which indicated well in advance of the November 4 election that McCain had no chance to win.
So they began working to position their man Mitt for a run in 2012. Just two days after the election,The Palmetto Scoop reported:
"One of the first stories to hit the national airwaves was the claim of a major internal strife between close McCain aides and the folks handling his running mate Sarah Palin."
"I’m told by very good sources that this was indeed the case and that a rift had developed, but it was between Palin’s people and the staffers brought on from the failed presidential campaign of former Gov. Mitt Romney, not McCain aides."
"The sources said nearly 80 percent of Romney’s former staff was absorbed by McCain and these individuals were responsible for what amounts to a premeditated, last-minute sabotage of Palin."
These aides loyal to Romney inside the McCain campaign, said The Scoop, reportedly saw that Palin would be a serious contender for the Republican nomination in 2012 or 2016, which made her a threat to another presidential quest by Romney.
Erick Erickson, who organized Operation Leper, said:
"Here’s what I think: I think there are some staffers on the McCain campaign who seriously screwed up the roll out of Sarah Palin, to which Governor Palin herself objected.
These staffers are now out trying to finish her off thinking, as typical D.C. types do, that if they don’t do it to her, she’ll do it to them. They just never understood who Palin is or what she is about."
"Likewise, I do think there are some staffers and others who expect Mitt Romney to run again in 2012,
they decided McCain could not win, and decided to undermine Sarah Palin and her chances hoping it would ingratiate themselves with Mitt Romney."

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"Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign? (Mark Wallace, Romney pimp)
National Review Online The publication of a Vanity Fair profile of Sarah Palin
appears to have opened old wounds in the McCain campaign.
... the source of the “Diva” leak was Nicolle Wallace’s husband."

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"Schmidt was importuned by several of the Republican aspirants for president earlier this year.
Mitt Romney sent him an antique chair to symbolize a seat at the table."

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"Romney would not say whether he’d been vetted,
but did insist that the vice presidency was a subject he had never even so much discussed with McCain,
with whom he often tangled bitterly in the primary campaign.
So I tried another tack, recalling that I had been in a car with McCain and his then aide John Weaver,
reporting a piece for V.F. in the fall of 2006,
just after McCain delivered an address at Boston College’s opening convocation.
Weaver’s phone rang, and it was someone at B.C.,
informing him that Romney’s office had just called to ask when he would be invited to speak."

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"Texan helped McCain secure Romney endorsement
AUSTIN – The decision by Mitt Romney to endorse John McCain didn't just happen, of course. It took a Texan who knows something about uniting fierce political rivals.
John Weaver, Mr. McCain's former political guru, was the intermediary who initiated talks between the two sides that led to Mr. Romney's announcement of support.
...Here's how the two came to make a joint appearance Thursday in Boston: Last week, Mr. Weaver got a call from McCain aides Charlie Black and Steve Schmidt, who asked if he would help broker an endorsement.
Mr. Weaver, who had left the McCain campaign in last year's shakeup, is a longtime friend of Beth Myers, Mr. Romney's campaign manager.."

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Who benefits most from Sanford meltdown? Californian (that's right) Mitt Romney

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"Peeking Out From the McCain Wreckage: Mitt Romney"

"Someone's got to say it: IS MITT ROMNEY RESPONSIBLE FOR OBAMA'S VICTORY?"

"Vanity: Team Romney Sabotaged Palin and Continuing to Do So?"

"Romney Supporters Trashing Palin"

"Romney advisors sniping at Palin?"

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Poor sport spoiler Romney doing what he does best:

Novak: "Fred Thompson drop-out rumors traced to Romney campaign"

Said Novak: "The rumors were traced in part to Mitt Romney's campaign,
trying to stir up strife between McCain and Thompson."

"Despite outspending his rivals by huge margins throughout the primaries,
(Mitt Romney, Carpetbagger UT,CA,MA,NH,Mexico) lost Iowa, South Carolina, Florida and California.
The only primaries he won were in Michigan, where Dad was governor; LDS states;
and a few states on Super Tuesday in which his California-obsessed rivals
couldn't spare the cash to advertise.
Only John Connolly in 1968 had a worse cash-to-delegates ratio.
And John McCain rightly did not like Romney's tactics during the primaries.
(W)hen (Romney's early leads) started slipping away, he resorted to unfair,
distorted, scorched-earth negative ads, betting that his opponents couldn't
afford to spend enough for the truth to catch up to his charges."
[Romney: A Mistake for McCain, 7/23/2008, Dick Morris]

[Dan Middleton]

Photos like that do nothing to make her seem like a legitimate 2012 contender.

[pfflier]

Last time it was all fictitious. The part where she is supposed to have said “Africa is a country” was attributed to a McCain staffer but, in fact, was made up.

[pfflier]

It looks like it may be photoshopped.

[Moose4]

Obama running around shirtless on the beach didn’t hurt his contender status any. Why should a slightly cheesecake picture of Sarah Palin?

}:-)4

[Brookhaven]

What is she doing with that American Flag...I wish that was not in the picture.

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That looks suspiciously like a photoshop job. Something about the face just doesn’t go with everything else.

[Al B.]

When the initial backstabbing happened right after the election, a lot of attention here was focused on Mark & Nicolle Wallace. Looks like first instincts may have been the correct ones.

Isn't it interesting that Romney is making the rounds on TV today including on Bret Baier's show on Fox at 6 PM EDT. I hear he may comment on his presidential aspirations for 2012.

Just a coincidence, right? :)

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Scrap my last post---looks like it was a different Mark Wallace who served on Romney's Texas Finance Committee:

Mark A. Wallace

Mark Wallace Contribution to Romney

I thought we had just bagged Mr. Nicolle Wallace!

[Two Kids' Dad]

Romney’s blowing it big time. He’ll never get the nomination for president and he might actually make a decent cabinet member, but his backstabbing is going to come back and bite him.

As for Mark and Nicolle, any campaign that hires them will not get my vote or my money.

[ZULU]

My guess is McNutjob is the leak.

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Ping to my #27-—it’s a different Mark Wallace.

[Deb]

It’s entirely possible there are no leakers or “unnamed sources”. Nothing makes Democrats happier than when Republicans are tearing each other apart.

[montag813]

Who in the McCain campaign was secretly trashing Sarah Palin to the press?

Uh, we already know that. Steve Schmidt.

[montag813]

What is she doing with that American Flag...I wish that was not in the picture.

the photog put it there.

[steve-b]

The Leakers Are Due On Maple Street....

[vpintheak]

My guess? No one. The presstitutes are making it up.

[Truth is a Weapon]

McCain is a Rino who ran a horrible campaign. He has no defined ideology therefore his campaign was filled with a bunch of weasels. There were people all across the political spectrum in there. No surprise that someone as well defined (although somewhat raw) as Sarah Palin would draw fire from the closet liberals in the campaign.

His campaign did Sarah a real injustice. They aided and abetted the Demo hate machine.

We have to get a conservative at the top of the ticket next time. No more Rino’s for me. I will pick a conservative and stay with him all through the primaries. If another Rino gets the nomination, I will still vote for him or her against the second-term commie but my support will be unenthusiastic. I expect a Rino will lose again.

[seekthetruth]

I really don't care who leaked what! Sarah can take care of herself and she outshines all of them!

I am headed to Washington, DC to the National Tea Party and our National Freeper Convention from 9/11-9/13! Then I will work like crazy to make sure every RINO is out of Congress come 2010! :)

[Ben Ficklin]

Scheunemann

[patriot preacher]

Oh yes, PLEASE do tell us...

[Jim Noble]

Who's the Palin Leaker from the McCain Campaign?

Somebody who will never work again, I hope.

[usmcobra]

At least she isn’t afraid to be seen with an American Flag.

[kcvl]

http://www.texaschildrenshospital.org/Web/2010/Images/Dr-Feigin-and-Mark-Wallace.jpg

(pictured on the left)

Mark Wallace

Mark Wallace current relationships:Texas Children’s Hospital - president & CEO

Mark Wallace past relationships:2008 Mitt Romney presidential campaign - Texas finance committee member

[freekitty]

It was probably McCain’s brat.

[kcvl]

Mr.(Mark) Wallace has testified before numerous government agencies as an advocate for children’s health care and the funding of children’s health programs. Most recently, Mr. Wallace championed the effort to pass legislation establishing the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) in Texas.

In 1983, in an effort to avert the potentially devastating financial impact of proposed Medicare prospective payment legislation, Mr. Wallace spent considerable time in Washington refining strategy and organizing opportunities for The Methodist Hospital to present an amended proposal to key legislators and government officials. As a result of Mr. Wallace’s efforts, legislation was passed which included an amendment with provisions for adjustments to the prospective payment schedule, specifically relating to the national referral center status of certain hospitals like Methodist.

http://www.texaschildrens.org/AllAbout/MAWBio.aspx

[campaignPete R-CT]

[campaignPete R-CT]

the guy in TEX is the wrong guy ... my mistake for starting that lead

[aphid]

I’ve been thinking that for a while now. She’s hanging out with Tila Tequila and the gay crowd. She’s also writing a chapter on Palin in her book (which she contends will be a movie.) I suspect her book will be yet another attack on why the Repub party must move left to save itself.

[StandUpChuck]

Nicole Wallace worked for CBS and is Katie Couric’s BFF. That should raise suspicion.

[kcvl]

Mark Wallace, a Palin advisor who is reportedly prepping her for her debates later this month, is serving as executive director of United Against Nuclear Iran, a fledgling coalition of primarily American Jewish groups. Both the organization and the rally were the brainchild of Malcolm Hoenlein, the longtime vice chair of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, several American Jewish leaders. Wallace, who is married to McCain campaign communications director Nicole Wallace, was brought on board by Hoenlein, and Jewish leaders say Hoenelin extended the invitation to Palin to speak at the rally.

[DB9]

Wow! Talk about Mittens getting caught with his hand in the cookie jar. That directly links Romney to the McCain campaign’s insiders who were trash talking Governor Palin at the end of the campaign. All I can say is WOW! If any self-respecting Republican hires any of these fools they deserve what they get. Romney and his trolls have no right to be anywhere near the GOP nomination in 2012.