The stories alleging dissension in the McCain-Palin camp, and others speculating about the wisdom of the Palin choice, are of the wife-beating variety.
Posted on 10/30/2008 8:42:38 AM PDT by careyb
TOLEDO, Ohio -- Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin tried to tamp down reports about internal dissent in the McCain campaign, telling the Wall Street Journal Tuesday: "I laugh at 'em."
"I have nothing but praise for those involved in this campaign," she said in the brief interview aboard her plane.
With just six days left until the general election, the onetime popular pick has, after a series of blunders, increasingly been accused of being a drag on presidential candidate Sen. John McCain. Gov. Palin has also been the subject of criticism, via the media, from Republicans and unnamed campaign staffers, that she has gone "rogue" and refused orders from her handlers in an attempt to salvage her own political future should the ticket lose the election.
A senior aide to Sen. McCain said the reports of dissension in the ranks had been overblown. But there have been times, according to that person, that orders would come down from headquarters and Gov. Palin would opt against carrying them out. That person said the vice presidential candidate could be "difficult," but said that she had never refused to do anything asked of her specifically by Sen. McCain.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
“Stand up, Chuck, let 'em see you. Oh, God love you. What am I talking about?”
"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,'"
“As Barack says, a three letter word JOBS… J-O-B-S!!!”
"Make no mistake about this, Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be vice president of the United States of America. Lets get that straight. She's easily qualified to be vice president ... and quite frankly, might have been a better pick than me.
"It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We're about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don't remember anything else I said. Watch, we're gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy."
“I mean, you got the first mainstream African American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy.”
“You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”
“[On paying higher taxes] It's time to be patriotic, time to jump in, time to be part of the deal, time to help get America out of the rut.”
“Hope you won't hold it against me, but I am a hard coal miner — anthracite coal, Scranton, Pennsylvania, that's where I was born and raised.”
Owl_Eagle
“When the stock market crashed,
Franklin Roosevelt got on the television
and didn’t just talk about
the princes of greed, he said,
‘Look, here’s what happened.’"
-Slow Joe Biden
Pathetic.
Strange, I thought the correct spelling was dissention, but it appears both are correct.
What blunders, Elizabeth? Being younger, prettier and more successful than you are, and having a younger, good-looking, virile husband? Oh, the hugh manatee! Would someone give all these nasty females a Valium, already?
Yep, a backhanded way to make it appear there is trouble where no trouble exists. Sleazebag liberal media.
The media is trying to divide and conquer the right in this country.
“Woe to the scribes” -New Testament
bttt
Look, in the report it says “She has never refused to do anything specifically asked of her by Senator McCain.” I think that says it all. Folks, the MSM treat the staffers like their royalty and the candidates like their horse manure. In actuality staffers are staff-they are there to service the needs of the candidates-nothing more and nothing less. And part of a staffer’s job is to remain loyal to the campaign and not divulge any secret info to the enemy. In any campaign the candidates should make the decision how they want to proceed. Sarah need only to submit to the will of McCain, which apparently she has always done. After all he put her on the ticket. If Sarah wants to tell her staffers to go to hell, that’s fine with me. This is a MSM a narrative quite simply because the MSM want it to be-nothing more and nothing less.
“With just six days left until the general election, the onetime popular pick has, after a series of blunders, increasingly been accused of being a drag on presidential candidate Sen. John McCain. Gov. Palin has also been the subject of criticism, via the media, from Republicans and unnamed campaign staffers, that she has gone “rogue” and refused orders from her handlers in an attempt to salvage her own political future should the ticket lose the election.”
The news pages of the WSJ are just as full of leftist hit pieces against McCain-Palin as the rest of the “national media “Screw’em all.
I agree. And the fact that she is rebelling against poor advice from campaign apparatchiks who never had her best interests at heart in the first place is cool with me.
The stories alleging dissension in the McCain-Palin camp, and others speculating about the wisdom of the Palin choice, are of the wife-beating variety.
This is another one of those storylines that crop up every election cycle. It is, as has been pointed out here and on other threads about similar articles, an attempt by the leftist propaganda media to sow dissension and unease within the Republican ranks.
If it’s from the ONN (obama news network)it must be true for the liberal mind.
Since it's a very close race, is the media trying to say that McCain might be winning if it wasn't for Palin?
With just six days left until the general election, the onetime still wildly popular pick has, after a series of (made-up-by-the-media) non-blunders, increasingly been accused (by the chattering elites like us in the media) of being a drag on presidential candidate Sen. John McCain. Gov.
But there have been times, according to that person, that orders would come down from headquarters and Gov. Palin would opt against carrying them out.
Stop the presses - she can think for herself and isn't a puppet!
My elderly Jewish parents revealed thay had voted absentee for 0bama the other day. When we had discussed this during the prior weeks and I asked about their problem with McCain, the answer was that “he was associated with some really nasty characters”. (Obviously, nobody could say that about 0bama/s) So, I asked them to name these characters. Silence. I asked, “you mean the Keating case?”. Answer, “No”, which REALLY surprised me. “Can you name them, can you say what they did that was so rotten or when they did it?” Their answer: “They’re secret”. Me: “So, you can’t name them, you can’t say what they did or when they did it, or why it was so rotten, or how you’ve suffered as a result, there is not even a piece of anecdotal information you can help me out with on this? Could it be you’re simply completly wrong and no such conclusion can be made in any rational way?” No answer. Anyway, I dropped the issue.
Next time the issue came up, they said they had voted for 0bama because they were so concerned about the possibility of Palin becoming president. I didn’t get into it with them, if they’ve voted, they’ve voted.
Talk about Stockholm syndrome plus Jewish guilt. Whatever it is that offends them about Palin, they would, in her place, and it’s not even ‘her place’ as long as McCain presides, vote for someone who has provably trucked with folks who would unhesitantly cut their throats with a rusty knife. Just unbeliveable.
Folks, never say that propaganda doesn’t work, that’s really all I can say. It does.
So there is NO dissent in the Obama campaign? They are worried that they may lose this despite total glowing media coverage.
Gov. Palin has also been the subject of criticism, via the media, from Republicans and unnamed campaign staffers...
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