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How Internal Battles Divided the McCain and Palin Camps
NY Times ^

Posted on 11/05/2008 8:53:08 PM PST by mathwhizz

Advisers in the McCain campaign, in suggesting that Palin advisers had been leaking damaging information about the McCain campaign to the news media, said they were particularly suspicious of Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain’s top foreign policy aide who had a central role in preparing Ms. Palin for the vice-presidential debate.

As a result, two senior members of the McCain campaign said on Wednesday that Mr. Scheunemann had been fired from the campaign in its final days. But Rick Davis, the McCain campaign manager, and Mr. Salter, one of Mr. McCain’s closest advisers, said Wednesday that Mr. Scheunemann had in fact not been dismissed. Mr. Scheunemann, who picked up the phone in his office at McCain campaign headquarters on Wednesday afternoon, responded that “anybody who says I was fired is either lying or delusional or a whack job.”

Mr. Scheunemann was referring to widely disseminated criticism by Mr. McCain’s advisers in the final days of the campaign that Ms. Palin, as first reported in Politico, was a “whack job.”

Whatever the permutations, the advisers said they strongly believed that Mr. Scheunemann was disclosing, as one put it, “a constant stream of poison” to William Kristol, the editor of the conservative Weekly Standard and a columnist for The New York Times.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: mccain; palin; randyscheunemann; scheunemann
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To: lnzog

wake up and smell the coffee.


41 posted on 11/05/2008 9:12:53 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: org.whodat

In fact, I do. It’s name is Conservative.

Did you elect 0bama to speak for you?


42 posted on 11/05/2008 9:12:54 PM PST by papasmurf (Impeach the illegal bastard!)
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To: mrsmel
Yessss! Photobucket
43 posted on 11/05/2008 9:12:58 PM PST by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: mrsmel

exactly !!!!
The Slimes are in full destroy mode!


44 posted on 11/05/2008 9:13:39 PM PST by ncalburt
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To: dit_xi

I’m afraid I must dissent, I don’t believe that they’re the least bit afraid of her. Why would they be? They know that the R party has washed its hands of her now that the election’s over, and she’s expendable. Why would they be afraid of someone who doesn’t even have the support of her own party? It must unprecedented that the day after the election, a presidential candidate’s campaign is sniping at the VP running mate. She served her purpose, she’s been cut loose. She wasn’t there long enough to achieve the clout to have any support from the big boys on the Hill.


45 posted on 11/05/2008 9:13:42 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: Justice4Reds

If she ever wants a future she dare not name herself senator, that is how she defeated Murkowski in AK... people angry he named his daughter.


46 posted on 11/05/2008 9:14:08 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: papasmurf
That is what I expected an uneducated comment.
47 posted on 11/05/2008 9:15:14 PM PST by org.whodat ( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
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To: Paperdoll

Well, Sheneumann and Kristol have been Palin loyalists, as is Fred Barnes. As far as I can tell, Nicole Wallace, Rick Davis, and Steve Schmidt (perhaps others) are the ones who had problems with her.


48 posted on 11/05/2008 9:15:52 PM PST by St. Louis Conservative
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To: Windcatcher

You nailed it, the R party is in disarray, there’s no leadership, and the members at the top are like rats deserting a sinking ship and looking out for themselves. You’re right, there’s no Delay-type to crack a whip on them and stop this nonsense.


49 posted on 11/05/2008 9:15:57 PM PST by mrsmel
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To: mathwhizz
Let the rag die! Don't give them any internet advertising revenue by clicking on the link!
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50 posted on 11/05/2008 9:15:58 PM PST by Caper29
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To: mathwhizz

This story is just one more proof that there’s no such thing as a too-strong woman; just too-weak men.


51 posted on 11/05/2008 9:16:04 PM PST by Albion Wilde ("Stand up and fight. We're Americans, and we never give up."--John McCain)
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To: St. Louis Conservative

The hell with Kristol and Barnes, I am sick of all the inside of the beltway guy, Barnes and Kondrake salivted for months that McCain just HAD to get the GOP nomination... they don’t have a clue about what most of us think.


52 posted on 11/05/2008 9:16:36 PM PST by Arizona Carolyn
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To: org.whodat

it had nothing to do with my education, or lack of it. If anything, your comment was uneducated. We don’t elect flag bearers, they take a leadership role and we either support them or we don’t. That’s your only decision in the matter.


53 posted on 11/05/2008 9:17:06 PM PST by papasmurf (Impeach the illegal bastard!)
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To: Arizona Carolyn

smells stale...


54 posted on 11/05/2008 9:18:29 PM PST by lnzog
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To: papasmurf

AS I said you do not speak for me and anyone else that I know of for that matter and I think it is a pretty moot topic, she cannot win primaries running by herself.


55 posted on 11/05/2008 9:21:03 PM PST by org.whodat ( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
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To: Arizona Carolyn
The hell with Kristol and Barnes, I am sick of all the inside of the beltway guy, Barnes and Kondrake salivted for months that McCain just HAD to get the GOP nomination... they don’t have a clue about what most of us think.

BINGO!!!!

56 posted on 11/05/2008 9:22:23 PM PST by org.whodat ( "the Whipped Dog Party" , what was formally the republicans.)
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To: RNC

"Republican National Committee lawyers were likely to go to Alaska to conduct an inventory and try to account for all that was spent.."

Is that so? Maybe there are other likelihoods too, who knows?


57 posted on 11/05/2008 9:22:38 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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To: lnzog
they are just trying to get the republican party to be destroyed from within. first the romney thing and then this. they are trying to get the romney, palin, and mccain people mad at eachother. and from what im seeing on the boards its working.

It's amazing how many Freepers go for NY Times third grade gossip.

58 posted on 11/05/2008 9:23:53 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin 2012


59 posted on 11/05/2008 9:26:03 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: FreeReign

amen, silly people. i realize we are all angry, but we should not be taking it out on eachother. not prodctive, it’s only destructive.


60 posted on 11/05/2008 9:26:26 PM PST by lnzog
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