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No More Mister Nice Blog — ... voter suppression + Obama voter complacency could equal McCain by an eyelash, maybe just in the Electoral College. So I still think persuadable voters need to be talked out of voting for McCain. If you know such voters and need more ammo to help change their minds, point them to all the bickering that's going on -- and ask them if they can imagine people who are at one another's throats this way managing to stop fighting and run a freaking country. How bad is it? Here's the latest, from Robert Draper at GQ: Almost from the very beginning, ...
The Palin story goes on....and on
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
... Then, Robert Draper, the author of the much-buzzed-about NYT mag piece on McCainworld this past Sunday, launches a new blog (God help him) and empties his notebook out on Palin: ...
But the End Result has been “Scripted Ignoramus”
I Am TRex —
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This is particularly fun blog post from GQ’s Robert Draper:
I’m sympathetic to (Bush shill turned Palin handler Tucker) Eskew and (McCain fembot Nicole) Wallace, and not just because they’re decent people. They’ve held their tongue from leaking what a couple of McCain higher-ups have told me—namely, that Palin simply knew nothing about national and international issues. Which meant, as one such adviser said to me: “Letting Sarah be Sarah may not be such a good thing.” It’s a grim binary ...
GQ on Palin: The 'grim, binary choice'
The Swamp —
... not to be one. She's being called out by some McCainites for not cleaving to all of the senator's positions. The Republicans who fawned over her superstar looks are now shocked--shocked!--to learn that her much-admired wardrobe has been purchased with RNC funds. I've heard from one well-placed source that McCain has snubbed her on one long bus ride aboard the Straight Talk Express, to the embarrassment of those sitting nearby.
Read the rest of the post here.
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FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
... MSNBC -- and other media -- has attacked Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin while demeaning her supporters.
"We should stop the demonizing," she said, adding that Democrats have been worse than Republicans as far as personal attacks on candidates are concerned. "It diminishes us," she said of her fellow Democrats. She stressed, though, that its Palin's small-town American roots she wishes to defend and not her politics or policies.
Palin, Alone Aboard the Bus
I’ve heard from one well-placed source that McCain has ...
Mark Joseph: Sarah Barracuda
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... There's a fascinating piece in GQ today about strife within the McCain campaign over the handling of Sarah Palin. I knew next to nothing about Palin before I set out to write my book which was just released last week, ...
links for 2008-10-29
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog —
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Palin, Alone Aboard the Bus
I’ve heard from one well-placed source that McCain has snubbed her on one long bus ride aboard the Straight Talk Express, to the embarrassment of those sitting nearby. It has surely ...
Election 08: The Palin Problem
The Nation: Top Stories —
Read Robert Draper's new blog at GQ for more damning detail on the Sarah Palin saga . He's sympathetic to the McCain aides staffing the Alaska Governor. Why, you ask? They've held their tongue from leaking what a couple of McCain higher-ups have told me--namely, that Palin simply knew nothing about national and international issues. Which meant, as one such adviser said to me: "Letting Sarah be Sarah may not be such a good thing." It's a grim binary choice, but apparently it came down to whether to make Palin look like a scripted robot or an unscripted ignoramus. ...
Random: Bark Worse Than Her Bite
Swampland —
... <p><strong>•</strong> Saltergrams get shorter: "100% BS. McCain likes her. He is as convivial as he can be every time she's with us. I've been there every occasion. Every single one. There hasn't been a second of tension btwn them. So, on the bus or not, they're lying to u." [Home Stretch]</p> ...
Salter Calls Reports of McCain-Palin Tension '100% BS'
News —
... to GQ's Robert Draper, after Draper posted a blog saying McCain had "snubbed" Palin during a bus ride on the famed "Straight Talk Express." "I've been there every occasion. Every single one," Salter said. "There hasn't been a second of tension [between] them. So, on the bus or not, they're lying to [you]." Reports in the media have swirled as to whether or not there has been tension within the McCain campaign regarding Palin. Yesterday, ...
