[Rhodes22-list] Palin the rogue

Sun Oct 26 08:29:25 EDT 2008

she's going maverick on the maverick?  i love sarah palin. keep her out there
talking. do more interviews. she has turned into the best thing to happen to
the democratic campaign. you go girl.

Brad Haslett-2 wrote:
> 
> Herb,
> 
> Dave didn't pay attention to my earlier post today.  He didn't listen
> to our excitement when Palin was named to the ticket.  He obviously
> missed the "Free Sarah Palin" movement early in the campaign.
> 
> The longer they misunderstand Sarah Palin the better!
> 
> Frankly, I'm not sure if Sarah can save John McCain from John McCain,
> but she's taken the gloves and is fighting for herself now.
> 
> You go Girl!
> 
> Brad
> 
> On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 7:34 PM, Herb Parsons <hparsons at parsonsys.com>
> wrote:
>> Some of us don't care if she makes McCain's aides happy.
>>
>> David Bradley wrote:
>>> It looks like the McCain camp thinks Palin has turned rogue candidate.
>>>  Another example to me of lack of experience in the majors.
>>>
>>> Dave
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html
>>>
>>> Palin's 'going rogue,' McCain aide says
>>>
>>> Story Highlights
>>>
>>> Sources say there is brewing tension between McCain aides and Palin
>>>
>>> Palin aide says she is trying to take control of her message
>>>
>>> "She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," says a McCain adviser
>>>
>>>
>>> >From Dana Bash, Peter Hamby and John King CNN
>>>
>>> ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) -- With 10 days until Election Day,
>>> long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Gov.
>>> Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense,
>>> they are spilling out in public, sources say.
>>>
>>> Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN that they have become
>>> increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going
>>> rogue."
>>>
>>> A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to
>>> "bust free" of what she believes was a damaging and mismanaged
>>> roll-out.
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>> "She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain
>>> adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us,
>>> her family or anyone else.
>>>
>>> "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."
>>>
>>> A Palin associate defended her, saying that she is "not good at
>>> process questions" and that her comments on Michigan and the robocalls
>>> were answers to process questions.
>>>
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>>> But this Palin source acknowledged that Palin is trying to take more
>>> control of her message, pointing to last week's impromptu news
>>> conference on a Colorado tarmac.
>>>
>>> Tracey Schmitt, Palin's press secretary, was urgently called over
>>> after Palin wandered over to the press and started talking. Schmitt
>>> tried several times to end the unscheduled session.
>>>
>>> "We acknowledge that perhaps she should have been out there doing
>>> more," a different Palin adviser recently said, arguing that "it's not
>>> fair to judge her off one or two sound bites" from the network
>>> interviews.
>>>
>>> The Politico reported Saturday on Palin's frustration, specifically
>>> with McCain advisers Nicolle Wallace and Steve Schmidt. They helped
>>> decide to limit Palin's initial press contact to high-profile
>>> interviews with Charlie Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, which
>>> all McCain sources admit were highly damaging.
>>>
>>> In response, Wallace e-mailed CNN the same quote she gave the
>>> Politico: "If people want to throw me under the bus, my personal
>>> belief is that the most honorable thing to do is to lie there."
>>>
>>> But two sources, one Palin associate and one McCain adviser, defended
>>> the decision to keep her press 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.
>>>
>>> "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."
>>>
>>> Schmitt came to the back of the plane Saturday to deliver a statement
>>> to traveling reporters: "Unnamed sources with their own agenda will
>>> say what they want, but from Gov. Palin down, we have one agenda, and
>>> that's to win on Election Day."
>>>
>>> Yet another senior McCain adviser lamented the public recriminations.
>>>
>>> "This is what happens with a campaign that's behind; it brings out the
>>> worst in people, finger-pointing and scapegoating," this senior
>>> adviser said.
>>>
>>> This adviser also decried the double standard, noting that Democratic
>>> nominee Sen. Barack Obama's running mate, Sen. Joe Biden, has gone off
>>> the reservation as well, most recently by telling donors at a
>>> fundraiser that America's enemies will try to "test" Obama.
>>>
>>> Tensions like those within the McCain-Palin campaign are not unusual;
>>> vice presidential candidates also have a history of butting heads with
>>> the top of the ticket.
>>>
>>> John Edwards and his inner circle repeatedly questioned Sen. John
>>> Kerry's strategy in 2004, and Kerry loyalists repeatedly aired in
>>> public their view that Edwards would not play the traditional attack
>>> dog role with relish because he wanted to protect his future political
>>> interests.
>>>
>>> Even in a winning campaign like Bill Clinton's, some of Al Gore's
>>> aides in 1992 and again in 1996 questioned how Gore was being
>>> scheduled for campaign events.
>>>
>>> Jack Kemp's aides distrusted the Bob Dole camp and vice versa, and Dan
>>> Quayle loyalists had a list of gripes remarkably similar to those now
>>> being aired by Gov. Palin's aides.
>>>
>>> With the presidential race in its final days and polls suggesting that
>>> McCain's chances of pulling out a win are growing slim, Palin may be
>>> looking after her own future.
>>>
>>> "She's no longer playing for 2008; she's playing 2012," Democratic
>>> pollster Peter Hart said. "And the difficulty is, when she went on
>>> 'Saturday Night Live,' she became a reinforcement of her caricature.
>>> She never allowed herself to be vetted, and at the end of the day,
>>> voters turned against her both in terms of qualifications and
>>> personally
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