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Report: McCain, Palin at odds over how hard to hit Obama
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... It’s too thinly sourced to be taken very seriously, but since our readership revels in the idea of the ‘Cuda being the scrapper to McCain’s squish, I figured you’d dig it. The bit about Mark Salter does strike me as plausible. With his electoral prospects fading by the day, Senator John McCain has fallen out with his vice-presidential running mate about the direction of his White House campaign… Mark Salter, McCain’s long-serving chief of staff, is understood to have told campaign insiders that he would prefer his boss, a former Vietnam prisoner of war, to suffer an ...

Looking Out For Number One
Newshoggers.com — ... By Ron Beasley This is amusing and telling: McCain tussles with Palin over whipping up a mob mentality With his electoral prospects fading by the day, Senator John McCain has fallen out with his vice-presidential running mate about the direction of his White House campaign… So what does it all mean?  That's easy - they both know they are going to lose.  As a result they have different goals.  The 72 year old McCain is looking at how history will see him - his legacy.   The governor from ...

McCain tussles with Palin over whipping up a mob mentality
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... said: “A lot of conservatives are grumbling about what a poor job McCain is doing. They are rolling their eyes and saying, ‘Yes, a miracle could happen, but at this rate it is all over’. “Sarah Palin is no fool. She sees the same thing and wants to salvage what she can. She is positioning herself for the future. Her best days could be in front of her. She wants to look as though she was the fighter, the person with the spunk who was out there taking it to the Democrats.” Read more: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_amer...

Don’t You Want Me Baby?
Unqualified Offerings — Per Sarah Baxter in the London Times , Sarah Palin guesses she’s got to live her life on her own. Per Baxter, McCain wants to dial back the anti-Obama fury of the last week, while Palin thinks McCain is wimping out. Meanwhile, the McCain side notices that "Palin is no longer helping to attract women and independent voters to the Republican ticket. A poll for Fox News last week showed that while 47% of voters regard the Alaska governor favourably, 42% now have an unfavourable opinion of her." Per Baxter, McCain’s starting to wonder what history will say about how gracefully and ...

McCain Having Buyer's Remorse Over Palin Already?
DownWithTyranny! — ... I don't know if they make this stuff up or get inside dope from McCain ally Lady de Rotheschild, but this morning's London Times is reporting that McCain wants Palin to stop acting as if her campaign appearances were KKK rallies. ...

Even if Obama wins, Sarah Palin is not going away
Brilliant at Breakfast — Having tasted the sweet nectar of power, the woman from Alaska with the insane, maniacal gleam in her eyes is not going away; she's just going to have her eye on 2012, when she figures she can take the White House back for the White People: ...

His Love-Hate Affair With His Racist Clientele*
Obsidian Wings — ... by Eric Martin An interesting bit of campaign-related gossip (via Newshoggers, my favorite home away from other homes): With his electoral prospects fading by the day, Senator John McCain has fallen out with his vice-presidential running mate about the direction of his White House campaign. McCain has become alarmed about the fury unleashed by Sarah Palin, the moose-hunting “pitbull in lipstick”, against Senator Barack Obama. Cries of “terrorist” and “kill him” have accompanied the tirades by the governor of Alaska against ...

Report: McCain, Palin at Odds
PoliGazette — ... A report in the British newspaper the Sunday Times claims that Sarah Palin and John McCain are at odds with each other over what strategy to pursue to beat Barack Obama. According to the report, Palin advocated taking the gloves off weeks ago, from the very moment she became McCain’s running mate, while McCain top strategists tell him he should ‘lose with honor’ (if it comes to that), meaning that he should not go after Obama. ...

Country Last
Comments from Left Field — ... McCain and Palin are apparently now fighting over whether to continue inciting mobs of supporters to violence, or not. The last paragraph in the quote below (from the London Times) says it all: ...

Video: Palin hits Obama on abortion
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... , which runs considerably longer than what’s here. I assume the strategy is to try to peel away blue-collar Dems who might have misgivings about Obama’s social agenda, but in light of yesterday’s Times of London story , I wonder: Could this be a case of Palin wandering off message to try to establish her own brand as a culture warrior for the next election while she still has a national spotlight? That is to say, has the ‘Cuda gone renegade?

Reuters CSpan Zogby Poll: Obama Widens Lead To 6 Points Over McCain
The Moderate Voice — ... Obama ahead by 8 –Newsweek has Obama head by 11 –Fox News has Obama ahead by 7 –GW/Battleground has Obama ahead by 8 –Time has Obama ahead by 6 –NBC/Wall Street Journal has Obama ahead by 6 *The Daily Kos Research 2000 poll has Obama ahead by 13 points. Pollster.com’s composite poll now has Obama at 50 percernt: “ ’— —

Palin vs McCain?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — From Sarah Baxter's piece: Palin’s frustration with McCain has led to clashes over strategy. When she learnt he was pulling resources from Michigan, an industrial swing state leaning heavily in Obama’s favour, she fired off an e-mail saying, “Oh come on, do we have to?” and offered to travel there with her husband Todd, four-times winner of the 2,000-mile Iron Dog snow-mobile race. She also told Bill Kristol, the conservative New York Times columnist, that she wished the campaign would make more of Obama’s 20-year association with the Rev ...

Rise of the Yahoos
The Poor Man Institute — ... Ah, to be 72 and in love!  Ten weeks ago, John McCain couldn’t pick Sarah Palin out of a lineup.  Then, he decided they were “soulmates“, and that - presumably owing to some hilarious generational confusion over current teen lingo - his expressed desire to “tap” her resulted in the stupidest, funnest VP pick ever.  And now, one abuse of power finding and several dozen approval points ago, it would appear that the romance is over: With his electoral prospects fading by the day, Senator John ...

McCain and Palin: Plausible Deniability
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... McCain tussles with Palin over whipping up a mob mentality: Senator John McCain has fallen out with his vice-presidential running mate about the direction of his White House campaign. McCain has become alarmed about the fury unleashed by Sarah Palin, the moose-hunting “pitbull in lipstick”, against Senator Barack Obama. Cries of “terrorist” and “kill him” have accompanied the tirades by the governor of Alaska against the Democratic nominee at Republican rallies. ...