Palin Campaign Emails Show How Silly She Is
Oliver Willis — ... The McCain campaign was going over a cliff. Sarah Palin had her pumps on the accelerator. Remember Todd Palin’s flirtation with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party (and Sarah Palin’s video officially celebrating their cause)? ...

Palin E-Mails Suggest Tension With McCain Staffers
Politics Daily — ... detailing tensions between Sarah Palin and many former staffers to John McCain during the '08 presidential campaign, CBS News has obtained an e-mail exchange between Palin and high-level McCain advisers reinforcing the perception that the relationship was anything but harmonious. ...

Early Morning Swim
Firedoglake — Sounds like a whackjob to me. But...but...Helen Thomas is a liberal with BDS. White House says questions were legit. Sign of the times. Another awesome benchmark for W. Where are the jobs going to come from? The WaPost let the crazy near a computer again. Jesse Huckabee? Hehindeedy. Share

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... and fighting between the McCain-loyalist idiots who mismanaged the senator's presidential campaign and the idiot they helped choose as his running mate, as well as the running-mate idiot's idiot loyalists in the press. McCain loyalists leak shamelessly to Vanity Fair's Todd Purdum. William "Unrequited" Kristol leaps to his true love's defense, accusing McCainiac Steve Schmidt of being the key leaker. Other '08ers leap in and swap charges. And now snappish campaign e-mails are showing up in a CBS story. If Sanford's got a bad case of ...

Palin Emails Show Infighting
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — CBS News: "Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated then Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had become with the manner in which top McCain campaign aides were handling her candidacy. The e-mails, obtained exclusively, also highlight the power struggle and thinly veiled acrimony that pervaded the relationship between Palin and the campaign's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt."

Eight months later
Political Animal — EIGHT MONTHS LATER.... CBS News published an item late yesterday, pointing a series of internal emails sent within the McCain-Palin campaign three weeks before Election Day. Their source is probably more interesting than their content. The issue were reports in October about Sarah Palin's husband membership an Alaskan political party that supports secession from the United States. The governor was working a ropeline when someone said something about this, prompting the VP nominee to demand that the campaign address the questions. Leading campaign officials balked, choosing ...

Palin-Schmidt flame war
Ben Smith's Blog — ... Todd Purdum's Vanity Fair story on Sarah Palin has really broken a dam. CBS's Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe, the McCain-Palin embeds who inked a book deal about the 2008 campaign, have the latest must-read report on conflicts between Palin and campaign manager Steve Schmidt. The issue under dispute: Todd Palin's membership in the quasi-secessionist Alaska Independence Party. ...

"McCain Staff Leakers, Whomever You Are, Are Scum, Should Be Outed, And Should Never Get Another Job"
RIGHTWINGSPARKLE — ... I could NOT agree more. Loyalty means something. This person is a snake. And by all accounts it is probably Steve Schmidt. CBS News has a hit job on her today with e-mails from him. He is oblivious to what was really going on out here in the real world regarding attacks on her, saying they were anecdotal and dismissing her concerns. So not only is he a snake, he is incompetent. ...

McCain Campaign's Strategy: Just to Shut Her Up
Hoffmania! — ... CBS News elaborates on one episode during the 2008 campaign - when it became known that Todd joined the secessionist Alaskan Independence Party. She essentially wanted them to lie, and Steve Schmidt - in a rare moment of integrity - refused. ...

McCain Campaign Email Leaks
Swampland — I have been a bit exhausted by most of this post-post-postmortem of the McCain campaign, relitigating old divisions that only really matter now on the off-off-off chance that Sarah Palin is the Republican standard bearer in three years. But I do find these old emails, published by CBS News , rather riveting.  The whole thing starts when Palin, fresh on the campaign trail, gets upset about the discussion over her husband Todd's past membership of a political party that advocates Alaskan secession. She writes an email to top staff: "Pls get in front of that ridiculous issue ...

How a Kos diarist helped spark McCain-Palin infighting
Daily Kos — ... That brings us to today. In a gripping new article, CBS News' Scott Conroy and special contributor Shushannah Walshe explain what happened next: ...

Things That Make You Go Hmmm, Ctd
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... So what really happened?  Here’s my guess, using Occam’s Razor as my guide.  Andrew has proven, without a doubt, that Palin has an unnatural propensity for lying.  And not just lying, but odd lies that are easily refutable, and often unnecessary to advance her cause (i.e., they’re more a pathology than used to advance her cause, whatever it may be).  I think he’s up to 30 of these “odd lies”, and that doesn’t include the whoppers from this article. ...

Krauthammer: Palin isn’t a serious candidate for president
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... seems at ease when discussing energy or life issues but the jury’s still out on most everything else, which is why Kraut feels comfortable asserting that she hasn’t (yet) brushed up on national policy the way we all thought she would. While we’re on the subject of uttering anti-Palin heresies, I guess Frank J. from IMAO and I are the only two who thought the ‘Cuda came off worse in the Palin/Schmidt campaign e-mail exchange about the Alaska secessionist party published this morning by CBS . Quote:“That’s not part of their platform and [Todd] was only a ‘member’ bc independent ...

What Does the McCain Campaign Infighting Say About Our Political Leadership?
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AKMuckraker: The Accidental Secessionist - More Leaks from the Palin Campaign
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... So, bearing all that in mind, here are the emails between VP Candidate Palin and Steve Schmidt, McCain's chief strategist, starting with one from Palin (and do go back and read the entire article HERE): ...

Steve Schmidt Sells Shit by the Seashore
Firedoglake — ... that you have to feel kind of bad for McCain strategist Steve Schmidt even if he did have a hand in picking the Nome Nitwit as McCain's running mate. As a candidate, McCain was shit-on-a-stick and rolling him in the nuts that is the Palin snowbilly circus sideshow didn't make him any more appealing. But, in the face of the Obama Megatron Steamroller, the McCain campaign had little choice but to throw the Hail Mary pass that was Bible Spice and then pray that they could keep the media at bay by dazzling them with winks and Wasilla Valley cornpone. ...

links for 2009-07-02
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: Washington_Post) Palin E-mails Show Infighting With Staff -Notably Steve Schmidt The tension between Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and top McCain campaign aides in the closing days of last fall's presidential campaign is ...

Links for 2009-07-02 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... administration comes to town because there's not a lot of time to negotiate. But they get free parking for their foreign brand cars in downtown Washington. And access to the White House Mess. Here are some of the newly-minted bigshots making the big bucks: David Axelrod, Robert Gibbs, Valerie Jarrett, Carol Browner, Larry Summers, James Jones, Susan Sher (Michelle's chief of staff), Rahm Emanuel and Jon Favreau, the paper Hillary-groping speechwriter (photo here). Palin E-mails Show Infighting With Staff -Notably Steve Schmidt The tension between ...

FullosseousFlap’s Dental Blog’s Links for July 3, 2009
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... Palin E-mails Show Infighting With Staff -Notably Steve Schmidt The tension between Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and top McCain campaign aides in the closing days of last fall’s presidential campaign is elucidated in a profile in the new issue of Vanity Fair. CBS News’ Scott Conroy and special contributor Shushannah Walshe, who are writing a book about Palin, reveal just one example of how the mutual frustrations went even further than what has been disclosed so far. Internal campaign ...

The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin XXXII: Todd And The AIP
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — ... You know I said a lot of tough things about Steve Schmidt in the rough and tumble of the campaign, but the more we find out about what actually went on, the more you realize he was actually one of the few sane people with real clout in the McCain implosion. And CBS News has some new evidence of a classic Palin lie - deployed against the McCain campaign. She tried to argue that it was false that her husband had been a member of the Alaska Independence Party and false that the Alaska Independence Party  actually supports secession. Here's the email she fired off to Schmidt ...

So much Palin, so little time
The Reaction — ... in the Todd-Palin-AIP issue back during the campaign -- Palin comes out of it, as you might expect, looking like a self-absorbed moron), and on the still-ongoing Palin '12 hype (with conservatives still ...

Iran's Fakir Anger, the Good, the Bad, the Sarah Palin
Notes From a Grumpy Old Man — ... has John Batchelor putting a positive spin on the results of the article. The article has launched much controversy, and CBS has gotten ahold of more flaming emails between Palin and Steve Schmidt, campaign manager for John McCain: "Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated then Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had become with the manner in which top McCain campaign aides were handling her candidacy. The e-mails, obtained exclusively, also highlight the power struggle and ...

CBS: Palin Emails Show Infighting With Staff
Little Green Footballs — CBS has obtained internal McCain-Palin campaign emails that show a lot of infighting between Sarah Palin and campaign staffers. Internal campaign e-mails exchanged three weeks before Election Day offer a rare look at just how frustrated then Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had become with the manner in which top McCain campaign aides were handling her candidacy. The e-mails, obtained exclusively, also highlight the power struggle and thinly veiled acrimony that pervaded the relationship between Palin and the campaign’s chief ...

Like Everyone Else, We're Wondering WHY Palin Suddenly Resigned As Governor Of Alaska
DownWithTyranny! — ... John McCain never felt especially comfortable with leading this parade, but, in a nod in that dark direction, he picked someone to run as his VP, Sarah Palin, for whom it came very natural. By all means read the account by CBS News of Sarah Palin's relationship, as the Republican vice presidential nominee, with the secessionist extremists of the Alaska Independence Party, a party she went beyond winking and nodding at-- and a party of which her husband Todd was a member for seven years. Palin didn't like it one bit when Neiwert exposed her extremism on CNN and she went ...

The Saturday Word: Palin Chatter
The Caucus — ... that explored deep fault lines among McCain aides who became estranged from her on the campaign trail as some questioned her political smarts. That in turn sparked a war of words among several of them online and off, with Steve Schmidt, a top adviser, and William Kristol, an early Palin fan, sparring repeatedly in public. Then others jumped in. CBS News published internal e-mails from Mr. Schmidt and Ms. Palin during the campaign, as they battled over how to handle Todd Palin’s former affiliation with a party that supported secession. And the governor had faced ethics ...

Stupid Is As Stupid Does
Balloon Juice — The vindication of Steve Schmidt continues in earnest. Here he was last year, dealing with the drama queen: “Secession,” he wrote. “It is their entire reason for existence. A cursory examination of the website shows that the party exists for the purpose of seceding from the union. That is the stated goal on the front page of the web site. Our records indicate that todd was a member for seven years. If this is incorrect then we need to understand the discrepancy. The statement you are suggesting be released would be innaccurate. The ...

How I helped drive Sarah Palin crazy by digging into her past
Orcinus — ... Now, it turns out that my short appearance on TV threw Sarah Palin into a tizzy and provoked a quarrel with Steve Schmidt of the McCain campaign. This from a CBS story by Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe: ...

Sarah Palin is dumber than a sack of George Bushes
The Talent Show — ... Case in point, the leaked email exchange between Palin and McCain campaign manager Steve Schmidt over Todd Palin’s association with the Alaska Independence Party : ...

Dan Mirvish: Does Sarah Palin Fear Upcoming Book Revelations?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... and CBS News reports (from an upcoming book) accusing her of being a "rogue diva" and tying her to damaging emails about her association with the secessionist Alaska Independence Party continue to hound her. But I can't personally help but wonder if she also became aware of related allegations I make about her in my own upcoming book ...

Sarah Palin: Ambition, Incoherence, and Paranoia
Hit & Run — ... Paranoia: Perhaps there isn't actually a serious scandal brewing, but instead, Palin quit out of an undue, hypersensitive fear of negative coverage combined with an extreme victim mentality. She's exhibited such paranoia before: A few weeks ago, CBS News published emails from the campaign trail depicting a fight between Palin and the McCain's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, over whether or not to respond to stories about her husband Todd's membership in a fringe Alaska secessionist group, the ...

Steve Schmidt: Nominating Palin would be “catastrophic” for the GOP
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... in the leaks aimed at her by unnamed McCain staffers, thanks in part to tense campaign-era e-mail exchanges between Palin and Schmidt having magically appeared in print a few months ago. I guess he figures he’s going to take a beating in her new book, so here he is ...

Sarah Palin to settle scores in book
News — ... Palin and Schmidt also butted heads over reports of Todd Palin's membership in the Alaskan Independence Party, whose platform advocated secession. Palin wanted the campaign to address the reports head on; Schmidt thought they had a weak case and prefered to ignore the story. ...