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Palin E-mails Show Infighting With Staff
CBS News ^ | July 1, 2009 | Scott Conroy & Susshannah Walshe

Posted on 07/01/2009 5:51:41 PM PDT by Al B.

Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated then Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had become with the manner in which top McCain campaign aides were handling her candidacy. The e-mails, obtained exclusively, also highlight the power struggle and thinly veiled acrimony that pervaded the relationship between Palin and the campaign's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt.

The episode in question began when an investigative report published on the left-leaning Web site Salon.com raised questions about Palin's relationship with members of the Alaska Independence Party (AIP) when she was mayor of Wasilla. The AIP's platform calls for a vote giving Alaskans the option to secede from the United States. It had already been widely known that Todd Palin was a registered member of the AIP from 1995 to 2002 and that Governor Palin had taped a recorded greeting at the party's 2008 convention.

On the morning of Oct. 15, Palin was aboard her campaign jet and en route to New Hampshire when she happened to catch a disparaging CNN segment that touted the Salon.com story, complete with a provocative graphic at the bottom of the screen reading, "THE PALINS AND THE FRINGE."

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TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; gop; nicollewallace; palin; romneybot; romneybots; romneyhatespalin; steveschmidt; waronsarah
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To: rlmorel

ROTFL! Good one! I love it!


101 posted on 07/02/2009 9:08:04 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (Time to CLEAN HOUSE (AND Senate!!!) Kick their butts to the curb!!)
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To: Al B.

More PDS from the POS that is the “media”.


102 posted on 07/02/2009 9:10:15 AM PDT by gimme1ibertee (Time to CLEAN HOUSE (AND Senate!!!) Kick their butts to the curb!!)
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To: ReneeLynn
Sucession?

Er, if you're talking about the AIP stuff, it's spelled "secession".

103 posted on 07/02/2009 11:11:47 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: carcraft

McCain couldn’t even get even with Letterman himself; he had to let the woman do it for him.


104 posted on 07/02/2009 11:13:20 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: RobbyS
The Party that Todd Palin belonged to is a protest party, a "white version" of La Raza.

I wouldn't vote for somebody tied to La Raza, either.

105 posted on 07/02/2009 11:14:59 AM PDT by steve-b (Intelligent design is to evolutionary biology what socialism is to free-market economics.)
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To: steve-b

Steve did you really have to correct the spelling? Really? Was it an uncontrollable impulse? :P


106 posted on 07/02/2009 11:16:27 AM PDT by ReneeLynn (Socialism, it's the new black.)
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To: Al B.

Another day, another hit piece on Sarah.... one more then do we get the weekend off?


107 posted on 07/02/2009 12:31:54 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (Why isn't the black community outraged that MJ bought white babies instead of black ones?)
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To: steve-b

Well. the politics are “the race” are different. The Independence part really just wants Alaska to enjoy full status with the test of the state rather than remain a quasi-territory.


108 posted on 07/02/2009 12:35:21 PM PDT by RobbyS (ECCE homo)
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To: Al B.
McCain was never meant to win, Sarah almost blew that for them. Nobody expected the average American to respond so strongly. Almost threw the election. If they had not held that lady down and gaged her, the election would have turned out differently, wasting millions of dollars invested in Acorn and other Democratic vote fixing schemes.

These letters just prove what we all expected, this election was rigged.

109 posted on 07/02/2009 2:22:32 PM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: jla
I asked for an explanation, but you seem to want to pick a fight because we disagree. Go back and read the article.

It is sometimes necessary to drop a matter because the battle will accomplish nothing and may cause much more damage than the original assertion. That is the central issue of the advice Palin was given. She was also informed that her explanation was disparate with public facts.

If you don't grasp these issues, particularly the first one, it would suggest you may not be capable of participating in a reasoned discussion of the topic.

110 posted on 07/02/2009 4:55:35 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: 70times7
I'll try again and you can cease with that pretentious attitude. I "grasp" things just fine.

From the top:

1. So acquiescing is "sound advice"? Just sucking it up and ignoring being misrepresented and/or smeared is "sound advice"?

2. Please expound on what "judgment problems" you believe she has. Sounds to me that she's a stickler for the truth. A fine trait I'd say.

490 states: "I like Palin, but I'm on the fence as far as a potus run and this article is not helping me out (yes, I know that's the point, thanks) but if the write up is accurate, that doesn't matter to me."

"I like Palin, but..."
This gets tiresome.

111 posted on 07/02/2009 5:24:21 PM PDT by jla
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To: LibLieSlayer
Hit piece and pimping future attack dog book

Agreed.

Now please explain how that invalidates my concern. It doesn't.

It casts doubt on the author's conclusions and suggests a slanted presentation. But my concerns are primarily with the emails themselves. Even Palin finally recognized that the matter needed to be dropped, but it took a surprising amount of push back to get her there.

112 posted on 07/02/2009 5:31:43 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: jla

As I said, if you don’t (or will not) grasp these issues, particularly the first one, it would suggest you may not be capable of participating in a reasoned discussion of the topic. You are right; it’s tiresome. So I will not discuss it with you.


113 posted on 07/02/2009 5:36:48 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: Drawsing
On the other hand, this whole article may have intentionally left out key facts.

That's what I would prefer to think, but even the bodys of the emails are problematic. It's difficult to say. With all of the garbage being shoveled toward her family I respect her wanting to fight back, but not at the expense of what is true (and easily found out). That's why I think the advice was an obvious fit.

114 posted on 07/02/2009 5:44:19 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: 70times7

Either answer the questions or piss off.


115 posted on 07/02/2009 6:00:57 PM PDT by jla
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To: jla

LMAO - reading comprehension is not a strong suit w/ you, is it?


116 posted on 07/02/2009 6:41:59 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: 70times7
reading comprehension is not a strong suit w/ you, is it?

It is when I'm reading a book by someone I admire, such as Dickens or von Mises.
Comments from abject cretins I tend to skim over and forget about quickly. :^)

117 posted on 07/02/2009 6:59:52 PM PDT by jla
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To: jla

Yeah, I bet the occasional drawings of miss Haversham are just etched right into your memory, and supply/demand graphs knock around in your empty head like she did in her house.


118 posted on 07/02/2009 7:31:10 PM PDT by 70times7 (Serving Free Republic's warped and obscure humor needs since 1999)
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To: 70times7

Because yor opinion about the emails is wrong.

LLS


119 posted on 07/03/2009 4:18:02 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: Al B.

the Dc Republicans are trying to destroy palin...and the conservative base. Make no mistake any money sent to the RNC, Senate or House re-election committees will be used AGAINST her. keep that in mind when they call for a donation.


120 posted on 07/03/2009 4:29:24 AM PDT by rrrod
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