Posted by
BrianR on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 12:30:33 AM
In breaking news today, a widening rift seems to be developing between Sarah Palin and John McCain; you can read the entire story
here.
Palin has been going “off-script”, according to McCain staffers. She’s a “diva”. “Over the weekend, sources told CNN that long-brewing tensions between Palin and key aides to McCain were on the rise… Several McCain advisers suggested that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin ‘going rogue’.”
Wow! Palin’s gone off the res!
“A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to ‘bust free’ of what she believes was a damaging and mismanaged roll-out.”
What does that mean? She balked at toeing the “party line” because it conflicted with her basic conservatism?
“McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls -- recorded messages often used to attack a candidate's opponent – ‘irritating’ even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan… A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.”
Gee… she can read the handwriting on the wall: the Titanic’s sinking! Man the lifeboats!
"Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom."
Or maybe, in the case of THIS ticket, of real conservatism.
“A Palin associate… acknowledged that Palin is trying to take more control of her message”.
As well she should as she realizes that she doesn’t want to be tarred with McCain’s essential RINOism.
“CNN contributor and Republican strategist Ed Rollins said Palin was ‘mishandled…She definitely is going to be the most popular Republican in this country when this thing is over’.”
Which means…………not McCain!
“(T)wo sources, one Palin associate and one McCain adviser, defended the decision to keep her media interaction limited after she was picked, both saying flatly that she was not ready and that the missteps could have been a lot worse.
“They insisted that she needed time to be briefed on national and international issues and on McCain's record.”
Um…. Why, then, was she selected in the first place?
"’Her lack of fundamental understanding of some key issues was dramatic,’ said another McCain source with direct knowledge of the process to prepare Palin after she was picked. The source said it was probably the ‘hardest’ to get her ‘up to speed than any candidate in history’."
In other words, she was a dummy, but we picked her anyway out of desperation.
In reality, it was a Hail Mary that didn’t work, damage control for the incipient disaster is already gearing up, and it’s time to throw Palin under the bus.
What happened to all the “honor” with which McCain was supposedly imbued? He’s not beating Obama on the issues – in all reality because there really isn’t much difference between them – so he has to resort to cheap smear tactics and guilt by association. His desperation naming of Palin as his running mate to try to secure conservative support didn’t work – because it was seen as the cheap political trick it really is – so now he’s setting her up as the straw man. And getting INDIGNANT when she fights back, to boot!
Man… if THIS guy’s your “friend”, who needs enemies?