Monday - October 27, 2008

McCain and Palin aides at war.  (oh great. so we’re fighting among ourselves now?)

Just what I bloody well need to start the day, on top of everything else going on around here.
And in a foreign paper too.  Good. Show everyone how divided we are among our own kind.  Gee people, when the heck did the enemy become US?
Does Democrat/Liberal/Obama/Supreme Court/Taxes and heaven know what else, does any of that ring any bells?  Jeesh!

Have any of you seen Mrs. Palin in blue jeans?  Gosh she looks good in everything. I’m glad she answered her clothing critics and now we need to move on and stop the political death wish that seems to be encroaching our ranks.

PALIN IN 2012!  Y E S !

McCain and Palin aides at war
Aides to John McCain and Sarah Palin have exchanged bitter barbs over the handling of the campaign.

By Alex Spillius in Washington
Last Updated: 12:39AM GMT 27 Oct 2008

One adviser to Mr McCain was reported to have called the Republican nominee’s running mate a “diva” after her allies complained bitterly that she was too tightly controlled by Mr McCain’s aides.

The Alaska governor’s supporters said that she was so frustrated by her role in the campaign that she threatened to “go rogue” more often and do things her own way.

With Mr McCain already struggling to stay in the race with Mr Obama ahead in the polls, the row over his vice-presidential nominee is threatening to drain energy from the uphill challenge of beating his Democratic rival. Despite the strains in his campaign, and an average poll lead for Mr Obama of 7.8 percentage points, Mr McCain maintained a plucky outlook, declaring that he was still capable of a squeaking a narrow victory on Nov 4. “I believe that I’m going to win it. It’s going to be tight, and we’re going to be up late, but we’re going to win,” Mr McCain told NBC’s Meet the Press.

For encouragement he clung to the example of a new Reuters-Zogby poll that put his rival’s advantage at five points, compared to others placing it at 11 points. “The polls are all over the map,” he said, asserting that American voters were growing wary of Mr Obama’s plans for tax increases.

Yet again, he was forced to defend Mrs Palin, whose favourability ratings have slipped to 40 per cent from a high of 64 per cent shortly after her nomination two months ago.

Asked about the $150,000 (£93,000) spent on designer clothes for Mrs Palin and her family by the Republicans, Mr McCain insisted: “She lives a frugal life.”

However his backroom staff appear to be at war with Mrs Palin’s aides. As mutual hostilities rose within the Republican campaign at the weekend, an ally of the Alaska governor cited the bad publicity over the shopping spree as an example of how poor treatment by McCain staffers had tarnished her image and turned her into the butt of late-night comedians.

A senior Republican complained to Politico.com that “she never even set foot in these stores”, and had no idea of the cost. He blamed the fiasco on “completely out-of-control operatives”.

Adding that she had “lost confidence in most of the people on the plane,” referring to the staff who accompany her, he said she wanted to “go rogue” more often.

“These people are going to try and shred her after the campaign to divert blame from themselves,” said the insider, referring to Mr McCain’s chief strategist Steve Schmidt and to Nicolle Wallace, the former communications director for George W Bush who has overseen Mrs Palin’s media strategy.

An opponent of Mrs Palin within the McCain camp however lambasted her for branching out on her own and for criticising tactical decisions made by the senator and his advisers.

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” a McCain adviser told CNN. “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 McCain adviser?  Really nice quote from someone who’s supposed to be ON OUR SIDE.)

Over the weekend Mrs Palin once again took a campaign message further than her senior partner. For days both have warned that Mr Obama’s tax policies are tantamount to “socialism”. But speaking in Des Moines, she warned that the Democrat would create the kind of country “where the people are not free”, raising the spectre of a communist state.

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Just out of curiosity.  Are you folks seeing this at home?  This report I mean. With days to go till election, this can’t look very smart. 

Posted by Drew458     on 10/27/2008 at 08:08 AM   
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