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| Fri, 07-03-2009 - 11:39am |
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 when the press exposed her husband's extremist politics:
This is a classic Palin lie - because it has a high school quality to it and is provably untrue in the public record. CBS points out:
To his eternal credit, Schmidt fired back:
We will not put out a statement and inflame this and create a situation where john has to adress this."
These are the words of a sane professional grappling with smeone who can only be called a pathological whack-job, unable to accept criticism and responding to it with pathetic untruths and diva-flame-outs and personal vendettas. This person could have been a heartbeat away from being president of the United States in a moment of economic crisis and national security peril. Her selection remains the most surreal moment in modern American political history. That she is a serious candidate to be the GOP nominee in 2012 is a sign of something very, very seriously wrong with the contemporary American right.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/01/politics/main5128672.shtml
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To follow up, from conservative (and former Bush speechwriter) David Frum:
PALIN EXPOSED
Friday, July 03, 2009 7:05 AM
Another day, another leak from the wreckage of the McCain campaign. First Todd Purdum publishes a harsh piece in Vanity Fair on the Palin nomination, filled with harsh quotations from anonymous senior campaign sources. Politico follows with an even more revealing exchange of charges and counter-charges. Now at
Andrew Sullivan needs to use spell check.
Here's a link to the thread on the Vanity Fair article.....
It Came from Wasilla
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/sarah-palin200908
>"Palin’s closest adviser remains her husband—the “first gentleman” or “first dude,” as she calls him. Testimony in the Troopergate investigation suggested that Todd was physically in the governor’s office for about 50 percent of the time, often sitting in on meetings or phone calls in which he had no obvious official function. By the end of last fall’s campaign, McCain’s friends had picked up word that Todd was calling around to Republicans in South Carolina, urging them to keep his wife in mind for 2012—the implication being that the Palins believed McCain was about to lose."<
TP has a huge influence on SP. It was behind every great man
~Andrew Sullivan needs to use spell check.~
Sullivan
This woman has been unbalanced from day one. I have never been so riled up against a politician , as I was with her. It seems with good reason now.
There's this whole story. The stories about her church and their practices. The fact that she hid her last pregnancy. The Trooper Gate story. The Katie Couric interview. The Vanity Fair article. Now her resignation in mid term.
Please... when there's smoke, there's fire and she has had a lot of smoke around her!