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Posted by:
Amanda Carpenter at 2:25 PM
From Townhall:
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BROWN: And, Kevin, even defending this whole controversy over the clothes, the RNC buying all the clothing, it keeps the story going, and, as Dana pointed out, one more day where it's dominating the coverage.
KEVIN MADDEN, FORMER ROMNEY CAMPAIGN NATIONAL PRESS SECRETARY: Yes. And that's an indication just how unseasoned Sarah Palin is as a national candidate.
Ordinarily, somebody who knows that this is something that you're trying to get to a subterranean level, that you don't want to dominate the narrative for yet another news cycle, would make sure that they don't mention that, and, instead, they focus with a certain rigidity on the message of the day, because that's exactly what a V.P. is supposed to do.
MADDEN: Look, that is why people who have done this before, people who have run national campaigns, always tend to look at prospective V.P. candidates, and they're the ones that are nationally vetted, the ones that have been governors on the scene for a long time, the ones that have been -- gone through the scrutiny of the national press corps in Washington. And that's exactly what has happened here, is that, when you put out an unknown and you give them 70 days with which to go through a vetting process, both by voters and the national press corps, ugly things can tend to happen.[Transcript HERE]].
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Right. Like the press corps has so vigorously vetted Obama?
(Who IS this pantload, "Madden"? Not the Monday Night Football guy...?)
You doth protest too much, I think. You and blogger, Erick with a "K," are a little obsessed with Romney's former employees, aren't you?
Like the Romney camp said, Madden is his own man. He is no longer Romney's spokesman. Did you know he was also Tom Delay's spokesman too? Kind of interesting. Now it appears he is a paid political pundit for Fox. He is free to his own opinion, is he not?
The bottomline is that you are focused on the wrong people. Mitt Romney has been more than complimentary about Sarah Palin from Day One and has been campaigning non-stop for the GOP.
I am a strong Palin supporter. I lobbied for her to be on the ticket with Mitt way back in May of 2007 (before most of you even knew she was alive), and I don't disagree with much of what he has said.
She is green, unseasoned and inexperienced when it comes to dealing with national media (true, and that's why we like her).
She was not vetted to the same extent as say, someone like Duncan Hunter, Mike Huckabee, or Mitt Romney, who were all highly scrutinized throughout the long, arduous primary season (also true, but that's why she was fresh and exciting).
When people are not properly vetted, surprises happen (no, duh).
I don't follow everything Kevin says with bated breath like you do, but the above observations (which I've heard Kevin express) seem fairly accurate and not too terribly scandalous.
Maybe you all should stop being the thought police and go out and do something productive.