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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."

(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: cbsnews; gop; nicollewallace; palin; romneybot; romneybots; romneyhatespalin; steveschmidt; waronsarah
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To: Al B.
Hey cBS... did mary mapes and rather fax these emails from a Kinkos in Texas... are they fake but accurate. **** you cBS... and your mothers too!

LLS

81 posted on 07/02/2009 4:14:49 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: golfisnr1
Yes, he is the main rat behind these attacks and it is clear for those that are not enamored with hair.

LLS

82 posted on 07/02/2009 4:17:59 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: 70times7

“Excerpt:

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...”

Hit piece and pimping future attack dog book. You are wrong.

LLS


83 posted on 07/02/2009 4:27:38 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: rlmorel

Right now I think that Steve Schmidt is loser. A complete hack.


84 posted on 07/02/2009 4:30:37 AM PDT by KC_Conspirator
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To: rlmorel
They may not see it but they will feel it. That place was bad in boom times... depression should rattle the kennedy-ites to their core. Soup lines by next year.

LLS

85 posted on 07/02/2009 4:31:32 AM PDT by LibLieSlayer (hussein will NEVER be my President... NEVER!!!)
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To: EGPWS

“Lib’s hate her thus she has some serious potential politically! : - D”

And RINOs hate her, which is even better!


86 posted on 07/02/2009 4:41:26 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

“I don’t know if I’ll survive another three and a half YEARS of this cr@p.”

NOBODY will survive another 3.5 years. I believe it’s over for America. The first seemingly innocent politically correct act started it; the election of Hussein ended it. We will never have another free election — not that we really had one in ‘08 with ACORN, etc., in the mix.


87 posted on 07/02/2009 4:45:41 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: MayflowerMadam

I know I sound pessimistice, but I’m not giving up the ship! ;)


88 posted on 07/02/2009 4:51:37 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Al B.

It would have taken less time and energy to squelch the issue as Sarah demanded, than for Schmidt to fight her about it.

Sarah was a winner in a loser campaign.

She’s President No. 45. The GOP better get on board or get out of the way.


89 posted on 07/02/2009 4:55:37 AM PDT by exit82 (Be vigilant--what is happening on Iran's streets may yet happen here in America.)
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To: Al B.
Unbelievable. Liberals are simply hell-bent on destroying Palin -- hell-bent. I steadfastly stand by and support Sarah Palin. They are simply trying to destroy her because she is a real threat to Obama. Why are they not going after anyone else as vigorously?
90 posted on 07/02/2009 5:05:22 AM PDT by Obadiah (Obama: Chains you can believe in!)
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To: 70times7

I agree with you on this. I would love to wholeheartedly jump on the Sarah bandwagon, but, in this case it sounds like she was either shading the truth or she just didn’t remember correctly what the AIP was all about. Either way, Schmidt’s advice was sound. On the other hand, this whole article may have intentionally left out key facts.


91 posted on 07/02/2009 5:15:35 AM PDT by Drawsing (The fool shows his annoyance at once. The prudent man overlooks an insult. (Proverbs 12:16))
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To: free me

“Persistence, strength of will and determination always wins in the end.”

She’s all that! :)


92 posted on 07/02/2009 5:28:38 AM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Da Coyote
The main diff between McCain and Kennedy is at least all of McCain’s female associates are still alive.

ROTFLMAO That's priceless.

This is much ado about nothing, as usual the MSM is trying to throw mud at Sarah Palin. I go back and forth trying to decide whether this is orchestrated by the dims or by the "moderate" republicans in charge of the GOP.

Seems to me that the fix was in for 2008 and Sarah Palin either didn't get the memo or ignored it so she fought to win. If you wanted to throw an electon you couldn't have picked a better canidate than McLame.

93 posted on 07/02/2009 7:21:25 AM PDT by YankeeReb
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To: Al B.

McCain was a liberal, his staffers are liberals, we shouldn’t be suprized that McAmnesty and his fellow losers are trashing her, they know she is going to take the party away and these closet liberals will be without a home, Sarah has my vote or I don’t vote period.


94 posted on 07/02/2009 7:24:05 AM PDT by Scythian
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To: Clyde5445

I seen the Lauer interview through a link here on FR....she kicked Lauer’s butt!!


95 posted on 07/02/2009 7:44:54 AM PDT by FlashBack ('0'bama: "Katrina on a Global Level")
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To: Al B.

Guess what the trigger was? The straw poll results. Once again, I would not be surprised if the ex Romney then McCain aides are behind this.


96 posted on 07/02/2009 7:52:50 AM PDT by rintense (Senior Marketing / IT / UX architect unemployed and looking for work. Freepmail me if you have leads)
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To: Clyde5445

She did a fabulous job, esp. with Lauer.


97 posted on 07/02/2009 7:55:30 AM PDT by rintense (Senior Marketing / IT / UX architect unemployed and looking for work. Freepmail me if you have leads)
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To: Political Junkie Too

Agreed. Sarah and her husband could have made a huge difference in Michigan. Her family has more in common with the working class than McCain or Obama. What a dumb decision by McCain to not let her campaign here. I saw her and John in Grand Rapids, and I’m telling you, that crowd was there for HER.


98 posted on 07/02/2009 7:57:45 AM PDT by rintense (Senior Marketing / IT / UX architect unemployed and looking for work. Freepmail me if you have leads)
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To: rintense

And the crowds are still there for Gov. Palin. What we are seeing is the real Sarah (interviews).


99 posted on 07/02/2009 8:12:13 AM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: "I told you so")
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To: rintense
I saw her and John in Grand Rapids, and I’m telling you, that crowd was there for HER.

I think that was a major problem for those McCain weasels from day one....a big part of the reason for the resentment IMO.

Dennis Miller said she's in Obama's melon. She's in a lot of DC melons...LOL.

100 posted on 07/02/2009 8:54:14 AM PDT by Al B.
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