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kogmedia the McCain camp has been sending mixed signals since it's inception... looks like not even Sarah Palin can keep up with McCain's endless wavering between "straight talker" and crooked politician
Diva
Eschaton —
This is fun. “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”
McCain aide: Palin a "diva" who's looking more out for herself than McCain
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth —
Let the fireworks begin, baby. You betcha. With 10 days to go until election day, long brewing tension between Sarah Palin and key aides to John McCain has become so intense, it is spilling out into the public. Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin “going rogue” recently, while a Palin associate says she is simply trying to “bust free” of what she believes was a mishandled roll-out that damaged her. McCain sources point several incidents where Palin has gone off ...
McCain adviser: Palin ‘is a diva. She take no advice from anyone.’
Think Progress —
The Politico reports that tensions between the Palin and McCain camps are increasing in the waning days of the campaign. Palin reportedly “has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her,” blaming “her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image.” A McCain campaign source unloads on Palin in an interview with CNN:
“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any ...
Sarah Palin A 'Rogue' And 'Diva' - McCain Aides
Newshoggers.com —
... By Cernig
The circular firing squad continues over at the Mccain-Palin campaign. CNN reports: Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin “going rogue” recently, while a Palin associate says she is simply trying to “bust free” of what she believes was a mishandled roll-out that damaged her.
McCain sources point to several incidents where Palin has gone off message, and privately wonder if they were deliberate. For example: labeling robo calls ...
Fait Diver — Diva
David E's Fablog —
by David E | (Visited 58 times) [image] Surely the facts are not in dispute. “ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) – With 10 days to go until election day, long brewing tension between Sarah Palin and key aides to John McCain has become so intense, it is spilling out into the public. Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin “going rogue” recently, while a Palin associate says she is simply trying to “bust free” of what she believes was a mishandled roll-out that damaged her.” ...
"Diva!": The McCain-Palin Split Widens
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
This is staggering in the last week of a campaign: A second McCain source tells CNN she appears to now be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.
“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain
adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us,
her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and
sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust
only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of
all wisdom.”
I repeat: ...
All Palin, all the time (con't)
Jonathan Martin's Blog —
A McCain adviser, fed up with Palin and her off-message ways, unloads to CNN.
“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”
Tough stuff.
And, as with Ben's piece, only the start of the Palin ...
Palin Versus McCain's Other VP Hopefuls
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... "She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," the adviser told CNN, "she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else." ...
Palin Versus McCain's Other VP Hopefuls
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed —
... "She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," the adviser told CNN, "she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else." ...
This is My Dream...
Lawyers, Guns and Money —
Palin wins the 2012 nomination, and an aging, cranky McCain refuses to endorse her.
Palin 2012, One For All And All For Ethanol
Hotline On Call Part Deux —
... and others that all's not well between the John McCain and Sarah Palin camps and that Palin is going "rogue" because she's frustrated with how she's been managed, here's one sign that the Alaska governor is pondering her future fortunes. ...
SATURDAY ROUNDUP
News —
... reported Saturday that the Republican veep nominee is disregarding the McCain aides tasked to handle her. One unnamed McCain adviser told CNN that Palin is "going rogue," while another adviser called Palin a "diva." With a McCain aide saying that Palin doesn't have trust with McCain, ...
The recriminations phase begins
pandagon.net - we are the public option —
... McCain campaign aides are running around declaring that the problem with Sarah Palin is that she’s a classic female stereotype---the diva, ( ...
The Republican Circular Firing Squad of Flying Attack Monkeys Commences!
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... CNN Political Ticker: A second McCain source tells CNN [Sarah Palin] appears to now be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign. “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.” ...
Emb-Racism, or Attack of the B-Girls
The Democratic Daily —
... mansion after his first term — and Palin would return to a state that had made her America’s most popular governor and where her image as a reformer who swept aside her own party’s insiders rings true, if not in the cartoon version the McCain campaign presented.
Palin is going “rogue” as I reported, Monday. The news outlets and blogs are a-swarmin’ on it, six days later.
CNN: McCain aide: Palin ‘going rogue’
“Diva!”: The McCain-Palin ...
Overnight and Early Bird Open Thread
TalkLeft —
Some things I'm reading tonight: Dahlia Lithwick in Newsweek, A Guantanamo Homecoming Bill Clinton to campaign with Obama in Orlando next week. Sarah Palin: Ignorant and Anti-Science by Pharyngula Newsweek: The Palin Problem Newsweek: McCain Aide: Palin Going Rogue The Making and Remaking of John McCain (Sunday New York Times Magazine.) Up to 25,000 are expected at Civic Park in downtown Denver ...
With the race supposedly tightening, McCain guarantees victory
The Reaction —
... And because the McCain-Palin campaign seems to be in a state of bitter disarray, what with Palin herself "going rogue," the campaign preparing for defeat, and Republicans already ...
With the Race Supposedly Tightening, McCain Guarantees Victory
The Moderate Voice —
... And because the McCain-Palin campaign seems to be in a state of bitter disarray, what with Palin herself “going rogue,” the campaign preparing for defeat, and Republicans already ...
Off-script: Pointing fingers, assigning blame, and questioning the Palin pick
The Reaction —
... among independents, perhaps would not have lost some moderate Republican support, nor the endorsements of high-profile Republicans like Powell, but it would not have the 4) The blame game is already being played inside the McCain campaign. The latest claim is that Palin went off-script by addressing the wardrobe story at an event yesterday in Florida. And of course there has already been talk of Palin "going rogue." Right now, with the election just over a week away, ...
Off-script: Pointing Fingers, Assigning Blame, and Questioning the Palin Pick
The Moderate Voice —
... would be doing better among independents, perhaps would not have lost some moderate Republican support, nor the endorsements of high-profile Republicans like Powell, but it would not have the
4) The blame game is already being played inside the McCain campaign. The latest claim is that Palin went off-script by addressing the wardrobe story at an event yesterday in Florida. And of course there has already been talk of Palin “going rogue.”
Right now, with the election just over a week away, fingers are pointing all over ...
