Palin Goes Her Own Way
According to increasingly more reports, Senator John McCain and Governor Sarah Palin are at odds with each other about the message of the campaign, the approach to Obama, and virtually everything else of value.
One such report was published at the Politico today. According to this liberal news organization, top Palin advisers and staffers (Palin partisans) and top McCain advisers and staffers (McCain partisans) have already started to blame each other for the impending defeat on election day.
McCain partisans and strategists, the ones who also worked for George W. Bush, believe Palin to be incompetent and a significant drag on McCain. Palin, these people argue, purposefully ignored their advise and the campaign’s overall strategy, seemingly hoping to boost her own political career in the years ahead.
Furthermore, these individuals say, if McCain loses it will be in large part due to Palin’s incompetence and unwillingness to do as told.
Palin partisans, however, argue that Palin’s image was severely damaged in recent weeks precisely because she tried to do what the top McCain advisers told her to do. The image they wanted to craft of her, and the way they wanted her to behave, caused Palin to come across badly on television, in interviews, etc. The top advisers of McCain, Palin partisans say, have let a valuable member of the Republican Party be destroyed by the media.
According to these individuals, Palin will play an important role in the Republican Party in the coming years, Politico says.
Palin herself seems to agree with the partisans, obviously, and is reportedly ignoring every bit of advise offered by the McCain staff, who also worked for George W. Bush. Instead, she has surrounded herself with some highly intelligent and informed individuals (with as expertise foreign policy and national security), with great credentials, and she is increasingly more inclined to say what she thinks, not what McCain staffers want her to say.
If McCain-Palin loses 1.5 weeks from now, and it seems likely, we can expect a lot of infighting in the Republican Party, with McCain partisans and Palin partisans blaming each other for the defeat. The side with the strongest arguments and best able to convince the establishment and activists of the GOP that they are right, will likely influence the party for years to come.
Are they fighting over the clothes too?
Actually, McCain seems to attack the Republican Party almost as often as he pounds the Dems…. The Northeast Left Coast Upper East Side New Yorkeys like Noonan, Murphy, Brooks, and other RINOs hate Palin for representing the Repub base they themselves, who are Dems in all but name, have despised since GHWB lost to Clinton.
Losing that “wing” of the Repubs might not be the worst loss the Repubs must suffer to retain any credibility with a lot of silent majority sufferers disgusted with McCain’s temperamental exhalations [Cuomo for SEC Chairman?] and the Euromarxist nostrums Obama peddles as cures for ailments the Dems have inflicted on the country already [FanFred, absurd cafe standards, carbon “credits,” and other effluvia of nanny-states with second-rate economies.