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The Growing Palin McCain Divide
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... The relationship between McCain and Palin continues to grow more distant.
New York Times: "The tensions and their increasingly public airing provide a revealing coda to the ill-fated McCain-Palin ticket, hinting at the mounting turmoil of a campaign that was described even by many Republicans as incoherent, negative and badly run." ...
Spirit-of-generosity Dep't
The Reality-Based Community —
... from backbiting by McCain loyalists deserves support from all good liberals. Partly, this is just good incentive management. When someone does you a big favor, you ought to do what you can to show that you're grateful. And Sarah Palin just did us a huge favor, at considerable cost not only to her career but to her dignity. Without the Katie Couric interview, the result might have been much closer. Not only did she drive grown-up conservatives into the Obama camp, she solved the "Jewish problem" all by herself. Folks, we owe her. More than owing her, we need her. I'm ...
Early Morning Swim: Special Schadenfreude Edition
Firedoglake —
Randy Scheunemann, fired for kissing up to Palin.
The battle between McCain and Palin.
Shopping sprees and wet towels.
Splitsville.
The Anchor Baby lashes out; RedState starts an enemies list.
"Loser McCain" gets his ...
Trashing Palin
Political Animal —
... to Newsweek about Palin's ridiculous shopping sprees -- which were even worse and more lavish than previously reported -- described by one aide as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast." Also this morning, the New York Times reports on the " difficult relationship " between Palin and McCain, and the fact that the two barely spoke during the campaign. The piece emphasized the fact that McCain aides believed Palin "harbored political ambitions beyond 2008," and was using the campaign as a platform. It noted that as late as Tuesday night, Palin was ...
Palin Last Nail in Republican Coffin?
Outside The Beltway | OTB —
Palin Last Nail in Republican Coffin? Quite a few reports came out yesterday buttressing rumors that there were tensions between John McCain and Sarah Palin which caused a feud within the campaign team. It’s only fitting, I suppose, since the selection of Palin has highlighted and exacerbated a growing fissure within the Republican Party itself. Fox New’s Carl Cameron dished last night about rumors that Palin was even more unprepared than we thought, like not knowing that Africa was a continent rather than a country or being clueless about which countries were in NAFTA: Cameron continued the assault on Bill O’Reilly’s show, continuing to use the ...
John McCain's Responsible for Sarah Palin
Taylor Marsh —
BY TAYLOR MARSH
Talk about redux and cya, especially John McCain’s. Let the McCain v. Palin wars begin.... er, continue.
-??She did not say, -??I will not prepare,-?? -?? a McCain adviser said. -??She just didn-??t have a bandwidth to do a mock interview session the way we had prepared before. She was just ...
Palin: ‘Small, Bitter Type Of Person’ Is ‘Falsely’ Claiming I Didn’t Know Africa Was A Continent
Think Progress —
... explosive claims — including that Palin could not name the signatories to NAFTA and that she refused to prepare before her Katie Couric interviews — are the latest signs of infighting and finger-pointing among McCain campaign staffers — and that Palin was difficult to control. For example, Newsweek and the New York Times are reporting that Palin spent far more than the originally-reported $150,000 on clothing, including spending on shoes, jewelry, and even luggage.
While Palin’s astounding misunderstanding of ...
Kristol Attacks Anonymous McCain Aides Dishing To The Press As ‘Paranoid’ And ‘Disloyal To John McCain’
Think Progress —
... Scheunemann, campaign manager Rick Davis and top adviser Mark Salter denied that he had been fired. McCain press aide Michael Goldfarb told Bash this morning that while Scheunemann wasn’t dismissed, he was ...
Neogone
Swampland —
... Still, I would also like to encourage Randy Scheunemann, Bill Kristol et al to continue to coalesce around Sarah Palin--her intellectual rigor and clarity, especially on foreign policy, indicate that she represents the real future of the neoconservative movement. ...
The Palin knives come out
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
The quadrennial Newsweek special post-election edition, Elisabeth Bumiller and Campaign Carl Cameron all break new ground on the internecine feuding between Palin and McCain forces.
There were, of course, ritualistic denials from aides to both candidates that such sniping, first reported by Ben Smith last month, was overstated.
But as this new reporting, clearly embargoed until after Election Day, underscores, it was if anything understated.
Conservatives are deeply angry about this finger-pointing and are seizing on it to renew ancient gripes about McCain and his inner circle.
Rush Limbaugh has used much of the top of ...
Picking a fight with the wrong people.
Blah3 Feed —
Palin is going to pay the price for going rogue. On Wednesday, two top McCain campaign advisers said that the clothing purchases for Ms. Palin and her family were a particular source of outrage for them. As they portrayed it, Ms. Palin had been advised by Nicolle Wallace, a senior McCain aide, that she should buy three new suits for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in September and three additional suits for the fall campaign. The budget for the clothes was anticipated to be from $20,000 to $25,000, the officials said. ...
Here are some pictures of the NYT's Elizabeth Bumiller
Jim Treacher's Blog That Is on the Internet —
Here are some pictures of the NYT's Elizabeth Bumiller No reason. She just seems like a really great lady : bumiller01.jpg bumiller02.jpg bumiller03.jpg bumiller04.jpg bumiller05.jpg bumiller06.jpg bumiller07.jpg bumiller08.jpg You know what would really bring out her eyes? A Burger King visor. Posted by Jim Treacher at November 6, 2008 10:07 AM
The dirt on Palin is coming out
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
It's avalanche time. As a top adviser in Senator John McCain’s now-imploded campaign tells the story, it was bad enough that Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska unwittingly scheduled, and then took, a prank telephone call from a Canadian comedian posing as the president of France. Far worse, the adviser said, she failed to inform her ticketmate about her rogue diplomacy.... But behind those episodes may be a greater subtext: anger within the McCain camp that Ms. Palin harbored political ambitions beyond 2008. As late as Tuesday night, a McCain adviser said, Ms. ...
Kristol Attacks Anonymous McCain Aides Dishing To The Press As ?Paranoid? And ?Disloyal To John McCain?
The Hollywood Liberal —
... for “trashing” other campaign staffers: One of the aides tells CNN that campaign manager Rick Davis fired Scheunemann after determining that he had been in direct contact with journalists spreading “disinformation” about campaign aides, including Nicolle Wallace and other officials. Scheunemann, campaign manager Rick Davis and top adviser Mark Salter denied that he had been fired. McCain press aide Michael Goldfarb told Bash this morning that while Scheunemann wasn’t dismissed, he was ...
"A particular source of outrage"
WTF Is It Now?!? —
As if her shopping sprees weren't bad enough, one of the last straws for McCain advisers came just days before the election when news broke that Caribou Barbie had taken a call from two Canadian pranksters. The last one was the Rogue Elephant's bid for power. As reported by bitter ex-Mitt Romney ...
Update on the Underwear Audit
Firedoglake —
Sarah Palin engaged in a bit of parsing when asked last week whether RNC lawyers were coming to audit the clothes she scammed the RNC out of. Rather than denying the claim outright, she insisted the RNC lawyers weren't coming to her house. [exchange starts at 3:00; my ...
