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Now It Can Be Told: The Ad McCain Refused to Run
JammieWearingFool — I think I'm going to be nauseous seeing such an opportnity slip away. Seriously, how would this have turned people off ? Anyone who hadn't already seen it would be laughing their ass off. McCain also was reluctant to use Obama's incendiary pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, as a campaign issue. The Republican had set firm boundaries: no Jeremiah Wright; no attacking Michelle Obama; no attacking Obama for not serving in the military. McCain balked at an ad using images of children that suggested that Obama might not protect them from terrorism. Schmidt vetoed ads suggesting ...

Palin: “If I cost John McCain even one vote then I am sorry about that”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... by her attacks on The One, but she’s got nothing but time to put it back together. 4. Keep a high national profile. A fundraiser here, a TV appearance there, periodic conference calls with the staff of the Weekly Standard, and she’s in business. Some sort of charitable initiative, ideally one that takes her overseas, would also be useful. And there you have it. Foolproof, unless the sniping from McCain aides (and possibly ...

Don't Let Them Do This, Again
Riehl World View — I'm probably as tired of politics as anyone for today. Obviously some aren't, as would be power players in the Republican establishment are already positioning themselves for where they might go next, partly through Newsweek - here and here. h/t Hot Air. Evidently there are excuses and demons some feel the need to make. Without being overly critical for now, the Right and center-Right should try and learn at least one important lesson from this campaign. In great part, the mainstream media and inside the beltway types picked our ...

It begins: Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent, claims Fox News
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... of Alaska while somehow lacking the mental power to piece together which three nations might be involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement. Diehard ‘Cuda-haters like Sullivan will, of course, be more than happy to oblige. You’ll find another clip from Fox that aired earlier today below the Carl Cameron video. See if you can figure out the thematic link. Exit question: If she’s really this much of an abject imbecile, how did that detail manage to escape the attention of Newsweek ? There’s no sign of it in their ...

Video: Fox News drops another load of dirty laundry on Palin
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... , this one does corroborate some of the details in the Newsweek report — sort of. Newsweek claims Palin appeared to McCain’s aides in a bath towel; Cameron says it’s a bathrobe. It’s not clear if he’s lifting that story from the piece of if he got it from a source firsthand; if the latter, then there’s either one very determined person leaking to multiple news outlets or … it’s a full-court press. Whichever it is, you’ll never hear the word “uncommon” uttered as pejoratively as you will here. I assume this is a sign that Maverick’s headed back to the center, because if he ...

The GOP Civil War Begins
Interesting Times — [image] It only took a day but the first shots of the war have been heard. Right wing blogs are on the war path and the subject is one dear to their hearts: Sarah Palin. Michelle Malkin and her fellow travelers defending the honor of Sarah Palin against anonymous McCain aides who are "smearing" Palin with all sorts of innuendo . The latter are getting an assist from FOX news and there are rumors that Mitt Romney's people are spreading it as well. The latter would move this spat beyond the blogs and FOX and ...

A Republican Future for Sarah Palin
PoliGazette — ... McCain aides also took aim at Palin shortly after the election. Newsweek reported today that aides to McCain said that Palin spent more on clothes than the $150,000 reported earlier, and that no one but she was to blame for the reports in the press that did tremendous damage to her image as a hockey mom. According to sources, Palin went on tremendous shopping sprees, buying clothes for herself, her husband and their children. ‘ ...

The reports from inside the McCain campaign are not pretty.
Althouse — ... Unlike the first clip, this one does corroborate some of the details in the Newsweek report — sort of. Newsweek claims Palin appeared to McCain’s aides in a bath towel; Cameron says it’s a bathrobe. It’s not clear if he’s lifting that story from the piece or if he got it from a source firsthand; if the latter, then there’s either one very determined person leaking to multiple news outlets or … it’s a full-court press.... ...

Circular Firing Squads
Neptunus Lex — Cue the closet Palin haters. The anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin by blabbermouth McCain aides who are leaking to Fox News is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting. Allah’s got the vid clip of a report citing unnamed McCain staffers accusing Palin of lacking, in Carl Cameron’s words, “knowledgeability.” More slime here. And here. At least all the Hollywood and Manhattan Palin-haters were willing to sign their names and put their faces on their attacks. I’ve trod the boards of the Halls of Power© ...

Sarah Palin As Jezebel, 'Wearing Nothing But a Towel'
Tennessee Guerilla Women — ... Now we hear that the wanton Sarah Palin shocked and offended the puritanical sensibilities of McCain aides by appearing before them wearing nothing but a towel!: ...

Piling on Palin
Tammy Bruce — ... At all started with this ridiculous attack in Newsweek, where they thought an important story like both campaigns being hacked by either Russia or China is equal to gossip and weird complaints about Palin. ...

11/6: Sticking By Sarah
Blogometer — ... that Obama's win -- along with the increased Dem majorities in the House and Senate -- gives Dems a clear mandate . Conservative bloggers, on the other hand, are either (a.) downplaying the size of Obama's win, or (b.) arguing that Obama "did not obtain his vote totals by running as a progressive" . In other news, conservative bloggers are blasting the anonymous John McCain aides who leaked unflattering stories about Sarah Palin to FOX News and Newsweek . Michelle Malkin complains: "The anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin by ...