holy doodle

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Fri, 07-03-2009 - 11:39am
As an aside, from Andrew Sullivan today:

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:


"That's not part of their platform and he was only a 'member' bc independent alaskans too often check that 'Alaska Independent' box on voter registrations thinking it just means non partisan. He caught his error when changing our address and checked the right box. I still want it fixed."

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:


The box that Alaskans have the option of checking when registering to vote states the full name of the party, "Alaskan Independence Party," not "Alaska Independent," which would make an error by uncommitted voters more plausible.

To his eternal credit, Schmidt fired back:



 


"Secession. 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 innaccuracy would bring greater media attention to this matter and be a distraction. According to your staff there have been no media inquiries into this and you received no questions about it during your interviews. If you are asked about it you should smile and say many alaskans who love their country join the party because it speeks to a tradition of political independence. Todd loves his country

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://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/07/the-odd-lies-of-sarah-palin-xxxi-todd-and-the-aip.html#more


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/07/01/politics/main5128672.shtml


 

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In reply to: oh_kate
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 11:48am

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

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In reply to: oh_kate
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 12:55pm

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

 


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In reply to: oh_kate
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 2:43pm

~Andrew Sullivan needs to use spell check.~


Sullivan

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In reply to: oh_kate
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 3:55pm
Alaska Governor Palin to resign in weeks

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In reply to: oh_kate
Fri, 07-03-2009 - 6:59pm

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!

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