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"Go More Rogue"
Talking Points Memo —
A few of the early Palin profiles reported out of Alaska noted her propensity to turn on early mentors or those her gave her key legs up after those people were no longer useful.
Now the latest from The Politico ...
Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in the final days of the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are complicating the campaign's already-tense internal dynamics.
Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, ...
First Rule
Balloon Juice —
... The first rule of what will become the new Christian Nationalist party, should the Republicans be exiled in disgrace in a few days, will be that no one ever takes responsibility: ...
What Part of Second Banana in a Skirt Didn't She Get?
If I Ran the Zoo —
... Isn't that the cutest thing ever? Miz Moose Jaw thinks she was chosen for her campaign and policy chops: But Palin partisans say she chafed at the handling. "The campaign as a whole bought completely into what the Washington media said — that she's completely inexperienced," said a close Palin ally outside the campaign who speaks regularly to the candidate. "Her strategy was to be trustworthy and a team player during the convention and thereafter, but she felt completely mismanaged and mishandled and ill advised," the person ...
uggabugga — McCain vs Palin, who to blame? As Kevin Drum notes, the skirmishing has begun between the two camps. The first story he links to contains these items: "These people are going to try and shred her after the campaign to divert blame from themselves," a McCain insider said, referring to McCain's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, and to Nicolle Wallace, a former Bush aide who has taken a lead role in Palin's campaign. Palin's partisans blame Wallace, in particular, for Palin's avoiding of the media for days and then giving a ...
The Republican Circular Firing Squad of Flying Attack Monkeys Commences!
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles —
... Palin allies report rising campaign tension: Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her.... Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline. "She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to "go ...
Re: Senate
The Corner on National Review Online —
... advice that "Every available dollar that can be shifted to a senatorial campaign must be shifted to a senatorial campaign," and for vulnerable Senate candidates to present themselves as a needed counterweight to an Obama White House. And it's not just vulnerable senators that need to start thinking about their own futures. One prominent candidate has already begun to "go rogue" and disregard the McCain campaign's advice and direction, in order to preserve future political viability Gov. Palin ! (Too bad she didn't decide to do that on immigration.) Sen. McCain has spent his ...
Sarah Palin's Impossible Dream
BuzzFlash.org - Progressive News and Commentary with an Attitude | Fight Ignorance: Read BuzzFlash —
What delightful intrigue. A "senior Republican" cloaked in anonymity has informed the Politico that Sarah Palin has chosen -- you've gotta love it -- to "go rogue."That's right, you heard it here last; that was the media's weekend obsession, especially since there's nothing left of substance or suspense to talk about in this late-October campaign that was unofficially over in mid-September, if not June or March. The initial coverage, I might add, was as delightful as Palin's intrigue itself, what with the Politico crooning with operatic understatement that her skulduggery is ...
Matt Lewis: Free Sarah Palin
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
Sarah Palin is setting the record straight about those expensive clothes. ... I'm supposed to go on Neil Cavuto later today to discuss whether or not Sarah Palin has gone "rogue" . Clearly, there is no rift between McCain and Palin -- and there is no doubt she is trying to help McCain win. Having said that, Palin has clearly decided to seize control of her image from the consultants -- a move I applaud. Individuals may not be able to control everything in their life, but they should, at least, be able to control their own image. In his book, " A Different Drummer ," ...
