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GOP strategist: McCain ‘put the country at risk’ by picking Palin.
Think Progress —
Ari Melber and Sam Stein both report that at today’s TimeWarner media summit, GOP strategist Matthew Dowd sharply criticized Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) pick of Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as his running mate:
“They didn’t allow John McCain to pick the person he wanted for Vice President,” Dowd said, referring to Sen. Joe Lieberman, which undercut his experience argument and tethered McCain to the GOP base.
“He knows in his gut he put somebody unqualified on the ballot,” Dowd stressed, “and put the country at ...
Bush strategist: McCain knows he put country at risk by picking Palin
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Sam Stein at Huff Post quoting Bush 2004 strategist Matthew Dowd: "[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that."
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Conservatives Keep Turning On Palin
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
It takes them a while to say the obvious, but they do eventually. Matthew Dowd: "[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the
ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is
something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on
that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that." The alternative explanation is that McCain had no idea what he was doing and delegated his first presidential level decision to Rovian hacks. Reassured much? ...
Dowd’s In The Tank
Comments from Left Field —
... “They didn’t let John McCain pick the person he wanted to pick as VP,” Dowd declared during the Time Warner Summit panel. “When Sarah Palin got picked instead of Joe Lieberman, which I fundamentally believed would have given John McCain the best opportunity in this race… as soon as he picked Palin, that whole ready versus not ready argument was not credible.” ...
Dowd says McCain 'put the country at risk'
Political Animal —
DOWD SAYS MCCAIN 'PUT THE COUNTRY AT RISK'.... Matthew Dowd was the chief strategist for the Bush-Cheney 2004 campaign, so it came as something of a surprise to see him eviscerate John McCain today a panel at the TimeWarner summit. "They didn't let John McCain pick the person he wanted to pick as VP," Dowd declared during the Time Warner Summit panel. "When Sarah Palin got picked instead of Joe Lieberman, which I fundamentally believed would have given John McCain the best opportunity in this race... as soon as he picked Palin, that whole ready versus not ready argument was ...
Quote of the Day
Shakesville —
"To me it is like Halloween: You get energized by eating all that candy at night but then you feel sick the next day."—Bush campaign strategist and hardcore Republican tosser Matthew Dowd at the Time Warner Summit panel, after HuffPo Washington Editor-at-Large Hilary Rosen said that John McCain's selection of Sarah Palin for his vice presidential nominee "had been successful in energizing the Republican base." ...
Sarah Palin: Trick or...Trick
Swampland —
So I was on a panel today with Mark McKinnon and Matthew Dowd--who brought you the last two Bush presidential campaigns--as well as Donna Brazile and Hilary Rosen....and Matt Dowd's candor was up on Huffington before I got back to the office: ...
CBS News/New York Times Poll: Obama Takes 14 Point Lead Over McCain
The Moderate Voice —
... Indeed, a key Bush strategist contends McCain knew Palin was not qualified when he picked her, according to The Huffington Post’s Sam Stein: ...
No More Mister Nice Blog — ... It's noteworthy that Mathew Dowd, a former Bush campaign strategist, is blaming the Sarah Palin pick for John McCain's current woes. But note the implication that the pick was not McCain's fault: ...
Quote of the Day: Matthew Dowd on McCain's Palin pick
The Reaction —
By Michael J.W. Stickings This is part of what the former Bush strategist said yesterday: He knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that. Me first, country... whatever. Dowd ...
