McCain camp trying to scapegoat Palin
Is this fair?
POLITICO-John McCain’s campaign is looking for a scapegoat. It is looking for someone to blame if McCain loses on Tuesday.
And it has decided on Sarah Palin.
In recent days, a McCain “adviser” told Dana Bash of CNN: “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone.”
Imagine not taking advice from the geniuses at the McCain campaign. What could Palin be thinking?
Also, a “top McCain adviser” told Mike Allen of Politico that Palin is “a whack job.”
Maybe she is. But who chose to put this “whack job” on the ticket? Wasn’t it John McCain? And wasn’t it his first presidential-level decision?
And if you are a 72-year-old presidential candidate, wouldn’t you expect that your running mate’s fitness for high office would come under a little extra scrutiny? And, therefore, wouldn’t you make your selection with care? (To say nothing about caring about the future of the nation?)
October 31st, 2008 at 8:03 am
The fact that Palin came from “the sticks” is actually important and her patriotism is there too. Not to say Obama, McCain or Biden aren’t patriotic. But Palin was taken from relative obscurity and didn’t have to sell out on the way to the spotlight. This is important. The other three although they have their own views are still attached to the corporate machinery that got them there.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:52 am
Who’s the whackjob…the “senior aide” running the worst campaign with one of the worst candidate’s ever or the hockey mom with a real future?
Rick Davis, Schmidt, Wallace, et al can try to point the finger of blame at Palin, but anybody with a lick of common sense will not be buying.
And I still find it curious that so many act concerned about VP candidate Palin’s readiness yet totally dismiss Presidential candidate Obama’s lack of experience.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:54 am
“didn’t have to sell out on the way to the spotlight.”
Many Republican Alaskans already feel she has sold out.
McCain was NOT a popular figure in this state. He didn’t do well at all in the primaries.
She may come out of all this a stronger politician. This really is her first true political test.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:22 am
CM,
McCain is hanging close only due to the extreme positions being proposed by his opponent. If dems had chosen Hillary or another less radical candidate, this race would have been over long ago.
I predict Palin will regain her conservative street cred quickly and be one of the more popular speakers over the next few years (if she chooses to take that route). She may decide to concentrate on family and her home state instead of pursuing the limelight in the lower 48…it will be fun to watch.
October 31st, 2008 at 5:45 pm
bb,
Wow, you and I agree. And in this year, the GOP nominated about the only candidate who could win since he has appeal to disaffected Democrats.
And despite McCain’s campaign, he has a real shot at winning. He has successfully distanced himself from George W. Bush. We Dems nominated the worst candidate we had. He may win despite being an awful candidate but I certainly don’t hold out much hope for him as President. He’s a left wing version of George W. Bush. Both are totalititarians.
October 31st, 2008 at 8:21 pm
You can say what you like caroline, but Bush lacks intellectual capacity. Obama doesn’t.
This is important to many Americans, but obviously not all.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:45 pm
Let’s not blame just Sen. McCain for picking Pitbull Palin. Let’s make sure we understand that this was a broad decision arrived at by the right-wing pundits.
The Insiders
How John McCain came to pick Sarah Palin.
The New Yorker, Oct 27, 2008
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/27/081027fa_fact_mayer
November 1st, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Captain,
Intellectual capacity doesn’t do anyone any good if you don’t have good judgement to accompany it. And Obama has shown numerous times that he has very poor judgement skills.
November 1st, 2008 at 3:15 pm
And so has McCain.
You like McCain, and I like Obama. Given that they both have exhibited poor judgement, I’ll take the smarter of the two.