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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Gov. Palin just did two live unedited interviews about two weeks ago. One was with Matt Lauer of NBC and on the same day on CNN w/ Wolf Blitzer. Gov. Palin smoke Lauer and did a excellent job on the other one. The subjects were Her gas line and Letterman and O policies.
And can you imagine how she’ll perform when she’s not suffering from post-partum depression?
They have really declared war on her. This is incredible.
Yet another hit on Governor Palin. Schmidt went and dug up all the old emails and is now releasing them to try and hurt her. He’s a scumbag of the lowest sort.
I understand your concern about internal e-mails. I don’t know if you remember right after the election the interviews Gov. Palin gave but she eluded to most of the mishandling but would not name names. Well now we know.
Yep, they’re obviously escalating the campaign to knock Governor Palin down and Schmidt is involved up to his eyeballs.
What I saw in the e-mails was minor quibbling that I’m sure was pretty mild compared to what must go on in many campaigns.
If this is the best they’ve got - then they’ve got nuthin’
David Axelrod and his boy Ethan Winner were astroturfing the lie that Palin was a secessionist. They should have been taken to the woodshed.
Not that CBS News would do anything to enlighten the public.
I wish it was that simple. I firmly believe that if McCain, or at least someone he would listen to, had any clue on the economy they could have buried Obama. If McCain had come out and said the problems with the economy were all the governments fault he could have forced Obama to defend voting for Bush's 'stimulus package'.
Unfortunately, all McCain could manage was his weak and infuriating "Wall Street Greed" line.
Spot-on. This is very mild stuff, really. It might have been news if Palin kept at it and circumvented Schmidt. She did not-—but quere why if was that a staffer could overrule the candidate?
You need to see the DVD John Zigler has out Media Malpractice which exposes what Couric and Gibson really did and the editing of the interviews.
Also at that time she was under the directive during the interview of the McCain people
Is the low life media trying to attack her still? Yes. But in this instance, provided the key issues are correct, this exchange suggests that she has judgement problems.
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.
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They will never take her out. I actually believe she relishes the fight. Sarah Palin has no quit in her.
Whether it was a brilliant strategy or dumb luck, when the Democrats disqualified Michigan for moving their primary up, they avoided having to debate the reasons why the auto economy was failing, and what culpability the Democrat former rising-star governor Jennifer Granholm played in that. Remember, it was McCain who told Michigan voters to "get over it, the jobs aren't coming back," not the Democrats who created the situation.
If Palin had gone back there during the general campaign, she would have forced that debate that never happened during the primaries.
-PJ
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The tension between Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and top McCain campaign aides in the closing days of last fall's presidential campaign is elucidated in a profile in the new issue of Vanity Fair. CBS News' Scott Conroy and special contributor Shushannah Walshe, who are writing a book about Palin, reveal just one example of how the mutual frustrations went even further than what has been disclosed so far...
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There can be no doubt that this POS (Piece of Schmidt) is stirring the schmidt... eh sh*t for some paymaster. Is it a certain RINO or for Obumbum?
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