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Insider to Ed Schultz: Palin is clueless; NRO columnist calls for her to bow out

by: Pam Spaulding

Fri Sep 26, 2008 at 13:29:10 PM EDT


Progressive radio show host Ed Schultz has spoken to folks inside the McCain campaign, and there's a serious meltdown over Palin:
McCain Camp insiders say Palin "clueless"

Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."

And if that isn't enough, the right-wing intelligentsia are starting to panic. You can't get a more scorching indictment of Sarah Palin than this one, by Kathleen Parker at the National Review, of all places. Read some of the damning column below the fold.
Pam Spaulding :: Insider to Ed Schultz: Palin is clueless; NRO columnist calls for her to bow out
Parker calls for Palin to bail out.
Palin's recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.

No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I've been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I've also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.

Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there's not much content there. Here's but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: "Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we're talking about today. And that's something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this."

...If Palin were a man, we'd all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she's a woman - and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket - we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.

What to do?

McCain can't repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP's unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden.

Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.

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A Good way out.
But i think she is too dumb and egotistical herself to realize she should. They may be able to pressure her to, however. Especially if her ADULTERY gets blown up any bigger.

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.


Sarah-gate
Featuring:
1.  Trooper-gate
2.  Pregnant daughter-gate
3.  Rape kit-gate
4.  Keeping money from indicted officials-gate (note-plural)
5.  First dude-gate (improperly involved in gubernatorial issues though not elected to office)
6.  Book censoring-gate
7.  Anti-semitic, witch hating pastors-gate
8.  Any others?

adultery?
Please a reference!
There've been rumors... but I have not seen hard refs!

Yes please
I have been seeing swirling all over the "internets" about this, even a Twitter from someone saying that Palin's lover looks a lot like her husband. But haven't really seen any links. Is it still all Enquirer? (which did, however, pull the scoop on Edwards, did it not?)

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As much as The Enquirer is looked down upon...
...They're almost always spot-on in their stories.

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I know!
They really are. I haven't read any of their stuff on Palin, but I just wish another source would pony up some goods to corroborate.

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Mostly smoke
I read the article in the grocery check out line this afternoon (I know, I know, but it was staring at me from the stand and I was bored) and the story is not a whole lot of anything.  It was mostly an emotional attachment than anything else - apparently they did not "put tab A in slot B" so to speak.

I am not sure if the Religious Right types would dismiss it so easily, but from my secular point of view it's a yawner.


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The RR will dismiss anything
for people they want to grant exceptions to.  

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Here ya go...
http://www.nationalenquirer.co...

I used to never believe anything I saw on a National Enquirer front page (I have never bought one), but they were right on John Edwards.

This source alone might not do it, but it will be interesting to see how big this explodes.


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I've enjoyed Biden
Off the cuff, often rough, but generally correct in his statements, which are declarative and to the point.

Palin?
Evasive, all too often vacuous, as if they picked the Christian Right's Stereotype of a Woman.

I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid


She kinda reminds me of another famous governor -
Like him she talks a lot but doesn't really say anything:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...


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Xtian Right Stereotype
Maura wrote, "as if they picked the Christian Right's Stereotype of a Woman."

But, gosh, isn't that what they wanted?

Tax the Christian Taliban!


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Which governor is this?


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In the video?
It's a clip from "Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" starring Dolly Parton and Burt Reynolds. Whenever reporters tried to get anything out him (the governor) about the Chicken Ranch, it was all doublespeak that left you saying, "huh?"

FYI, Texas Aggies do NOT say "Yee Haw" all the time, never have.

We say WHOOP!


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This is a big indictment
Parker is not part of the right-wing intelligentsia, who were never really big fans of the Palin pick from the offset. Remember Peggy Noonan's hot mic comments?

No, Parker is part of the Dobson/Schlafly/social-issues-trump-all wing of the party, the very ones whom Palin was supposed to appeal. This makes her words all the more damning.


Special Olympics Veto-Gate
And peppering every speech with her lie about planning to represent families with special needs kids.

Bitch.

Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.


Special Olympics Veto-Gate
And peppering every speech with her lie about planning to represent families with special needs kids.

Bitch.

Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.


Interesting thoughts about Palin's speech abilities.
Disclosure notice first.  This was written by a friend of mine on her LiveJournal but she does make some very good points.
http://mcbrennan.livejournal.c...

My America includes LGBT families.

the suggestion of a thought disorder was a bit much
It is possible that she may have some degree of dyslexia which can actually impact speech (I do) but the heart of the problem is the fact she is way over her head and is struggling trying to pretend she knows what is being asked of her and what she's talking about

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"Right-wing intelligentsia"?!
I don't know what you have been smoking/drinking/shooting up, but I hope you brought enough to share. I don't there is any group less deserving of the title "intelligentsia" than the US right wing.

Plus ça change, plus c'est la même merde.

"pseudointelligentsia"


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" teh fauxintelligentsia"


It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.


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but wouldn't that make them elitists?


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Ohmigosh, I'm an elitist
or was a spoiled child, or both since I got my passport after graduating college:

I'm not one of those who maybe came from a background of, you know, kids who perhaps graduate college and their parents give them a passport and give them a backpack and say go off and travel the world.


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I got mine when I was in high school
I've been to 9 countries on 4 continents and have travelled the continental U.S. coast-to-coast, border-to-border. In the best of times, we were middle-middle class, but there were plenty of times when money was extremely tight. My parents believed in exposing me and my sister to as much of the world as they possibly could (and the overseas trip was an opportunity that simply couldn't be passed up even though it was in the middle of the school year).

So what would that make me?

I would say well-rounded and culturally aware (and damned lucky I had great parents).


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How Many?
Just how many Springer episodes could you fill with Palin, her kin, and friends in Alaska?

Here's the front page
that leads to the above story- go down the page to the first article on the "Campaign Trail" section.

http://elections.foxnews.com/

Gee! No mention of the PALIN story...wonder why that is.


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is that the fauxintelligentsia?
See below. ... and if that isn't the biggest oxymoron ever coined!

It's the Hammer of JUSTICE,
It's the Bell of FREEDOM,
It's the Song about LOVE between,
my Brothers and my Sisters
...All over this Land.


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Heh!
Top headline there right now:

Twittering the Debate: Amateur Pundits Plan to Sound Off

Taken together this headline + image imply that the "amateur pundits" are...?


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It's a JOKE, people.


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I know that...
which is why I linked the front page to the "story"- to show how Faux teased it.


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The MSM being very kind and forgiving to Palin
...and they wouldn't be to a male candidate.  SHE said 'yes' to a call for which SHE knew she wasn't qualified, so SHE deserves to face the music on national TV.  Along with those who have been cheering for her because she was ideologically aligned with their regressive selves.  It would be painful for her but a lot less painful for the rest of us in the long run.

("American Family Association" newsletter gushes; 'She's Perfect!'  Let's be absolutely clear what those jokers mean by 'perfect'.)

Little girls need to see a woman president, but let it be someone with some measurable abilities like Hillary or Kaptur or Pelosi. They can take the heat and answer right back.  Going easy on Palin is insulting to everyone.


Too true...
Her response of "Probably so..." when asked whether we would need to go to war with Russia was almost not mentioned.

If ANYONE else had said that...

Question:  What does an atheist do when they fall to the floor and start "speaking in tongues"?

Answer: Get a CAT scan.


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"Kind and forgiving" doesn't begin to describe it
Imagine what the MSM would do if Obama appeared onstage with an African witch-hunter who had just made a vile anti-semitic speech.  And if Obama then let the guy "lay hands" on him and cast a spell to protect him from witches.  The response to Rev. Wright would seem tame and moderate by comparison.

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


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Actually, Q
You just hit on something that scares the crap out of me: Put together everything we now know about her extremist religious views and the fact that her buddy the Grand Inquisitor is about one step away from calls of Blood Libel and how long would it be before this woman started to call for concentration camps (of course called something else--like maybe "internment camps") for anyone who is not Christian--then eventually anyone who is not the right kind of Christian? How long before she decides that God has chosen her to hurry Armageddon along?

Receiving a laying on of hands from someone who has engaged in witch hunts, if the two things were totally seperate would be seriously questionable; the ritual this man did for and with Ms. Palin, which she credits with getting her elected as Governor was like something straight out of another century. Palin's actions were an endorsement of Witch Hunts. Earth to the MSM??? This is kind of a big deal!

Yet the mainstream media portrays her deluded religious beliefs as a big joke. The possibility of this woman ending up in the Whitehouse is truly terrifying if you think about the implications.  Yes, she is an idiot, but she is an idiot with religious delusions and a shot at the Whitehouse.

susanferman.wordpress.com


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Could see it coming...
"I've also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted."

Yup, that sums up how I feel every time I see her perfectly. I think people are starting to realize that this nomination was a huge mistake. Not the BS "Obama should've picked Hillary" nonsense that Republicans, who hate her guts, keep trolling out because they'd been preparing to run against her for years. And yeah the only way I see Palin bowing out is for "personal reasons."

Personal reasons meaning: the campaign finally realized McCain nominated someone who doesn't know what the hell she's talking about and every time she opens her mouth she embarrasses the hell out of him. If it looked at all like McCain changed his mind after such a wild card pick, his reluctant social conservatives would go nuts. Well, either way it won't look good so he's probably screwed.  


Unfortunately
Even with all the calls for Palin to get out, McCain will still be gambling (again) that there are enough Wal-Mart mom lovers out there, who are just as clueless and airheaded as Palin is, that they'll vote for them regardless.  To them, she could stand up there and read the phone book and they'd still argue how knowledgeable she is.

I can see her dropping out
She'll claim the Dems/MSM are persecuting her because of her conservative religious background. That way the Fundies will get pissed and still vote for the Republicans out to spite the Democrats. Then the ticket can get a competent replacement VP.

Cisgender. Because "Genetic" (or non) is so 2006.

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What if
Bristol "loses the baby". Sarah  "withdraws" for the sake of her family, and gives Bristol her son. Who was Bistols' child in the first place.
It's a win win;)

I also saw the 10 min
"7th month preggers" vid- no WAY she was pregnant!!! No way whatsoever.

I have 2 cousins who are 10 months' apart; it CAN happen!!

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McCain is STUCK with "Ann Coulter of the KLONDIKE"
He needed the hail Mary pass that Palin represented, to give a pulse to his lackluster campaign. She added excitement as a blank slate, and as soon as she went before three members of the press,(yeah I even included Hannity's Palin infomercial...where she hardly shined either.)SHE SUCKED, and made people so unanimously UNIMPRESSED, UNCONFIDENT, and for many just scratching their heads wondering who vetted Miss Wasilla?

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Murder in Sonoma
. . .for many just scratching their heads wondering who vetted Miss Wasilla?

My guess is they'll probably find them buried somewhere in the desert near Sonoma after it's discovered geriatric John let his temper get the better of him once again.


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Caribou Barbie
never attended BC- and McCain is no Doug Flutie!

(the last time I remember this last minute desperation "oh WTF...' play actually work!)

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?
"Ann Coulter of the KLONDIKE"

Speaking of the original Coulter...

Is it my imagination, or has she been kinda off the radar recently?  Might Gov. Collagen literally be under the tutilage of Ms. 'Kill their men and forcibly christianize their women and children'?

>^..^<


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Palin's Not Clueless
John McCain and his campaign are the clueless ones. They have no idea how to run a campaign. The polls slip so they drop a smoke bomb of "economic crisis" and "campaign suspension" to regroup.

Now the fact that no one really checked out Palin and it has come home to roost. And only now are they realizing they messed up and have to get rid of her.

Jon aka The Angry Fag
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they want to lose
Personally, I think they knew what they were doing when they picked Palin.  I think it was a calculated risk to cause them to lose the election in a sneaky way so the right-wingnuts could have a scapegoat for the next 4 years as this country continues to implode due to the result of unfettered greed of the last 20 or so years of deregulation.  The "trickle down" theory was never meant to trickle down from the top, it was designed as a way for the rich to keep getting richer without the middle class realizing it until it was too late.  The worst thing about all of this is that this so called "bailout" is designed to save the ultra rich from losing their fair share in this on going financial implosion.  The republicrats don't want to be blamed for the results and it's easy to pin the end result on the government in power when it happens, even though they had nothing to do with how it happened.  Just picking McCain was a calculated risk in a secret losing strategy, in my opinion.

I'm a cynic
I'm enough of a cynic to have wondered about this possibility.  

If so...

(1) Was McCain in on the plan? Is he actually being used? It does seem as though the Palin choice was forced on him, so it might not be beyond the realm of possibility.  

(2) Was the financial system meltdown part of the plan - expected to occur in the manner it did, but simply at some point after Jan. 20, 2009, meaning that the events of the last two weeks leave the GOP with the possibility of actually getting blamed for the mess that they actually caused?

>^..^<


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