Kaboom.
The one that summed it up for me?
Q. You write that near the end of the campaign, some top McCain staffers were so concerned about Sarah Palin being a heartbeat away from the presidency, if in fact John McCain won, that they actually going to urge John McCain to have her step down. How is that even possible?
A. It’s strange. These are political operatives. They love John McCain. They’re throwing their heart and soul into trying to get him elected, but they’re in a way glad that he probably isn’t going to win, based on their polling data…because the thought to them of Sarah Palin being Vice President, some of them found terrifying. Unfathomable. They didn’t believe she was up to the job of being Vice President in any way like an Al Gore, or Dick Cheney. If McCain looked like he had a chance, some of them talked about the fact that they would have to go to him and say, “She cannot serve in the office the way it’s been done in the last few years.” She would have to be sort of a ceremonial Vice President because they felt, from what they observed, that she was mentally limited and attitudinally limited in such a way that she simply couldn’t do the job the way it had been done.
I never thought I’d find myself saying this, but… Thank you Republican political operatives for the McCain campaign. Alaskans have been saying all of this for quite a while now, and Democrats caught up soon after, then some clear eyed Republicans, and now you. I’m sure it feels good to get it out.
Somehow “Palin for Ceremonial President 2012″ just doesn’t do it.
Here are the “transcripts” of this 60 Minutes show.
Revelations from the Campaign
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/07/60minutes/main6067628.shtml?tag=contentMain;contentBody
This looks like the start of SARAH’S TERRIBLE, HORRIBLE, NO GOOD, VERY BAD WEEK! Next up is today’s release of Game Change.
Apparently, >b>God’s plan was for Barack Obama to become President of the United States of America! Thank goodness.
“…..but they’re in a way glad that he probably isn’t going to win, based on their polling data…because the thought to them of Sarah Palin being Vice President, some of them found terrifying. Unfathomable. ”
Echoes of “whackjob” and “diva”….. the earliest leaked information by McCain campaign “patriots” who obviously put THEIR “Country First. ” Were campaign operatives (who found the idea of VP Palin a terrifying prospect) trying to assist a GOP defeat by leaking these descriptions prior to the election?
Kaboom indeed. If this doesn’t wake up those people who admire Palin, they must certifiably be corpses.
This is a detailed story about election night. Interesting! “She asked the Bush campaign veterans if election night was always so dysfunctional.”
On The Road With The Palin Campaign
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/08/60minutes/main6070753.shtml
Let me get this straight: this woman believes that the end of the world will occur in her lifetime – and is looking forward to it, and there are those out there who want to give her the nuclear codes that can make that happen?
KABOOM! indeed!
How about not knowing the difference between North and South Korea? Palin obviously didn’t watch a single episode of MASH growing up…
“Somehow “Palin for Ceremonial President 2012″ just doesn’t do it.”
But think of all the fancy pageant walking she could do. Plus she could entertain the troops with her flute playing.
Kaboom, wow just wow. Is this the water thrown on the wicked witch?
Let’s hope so, for the sake of our country. Her 15 mentally limited minutes were over long ago.
OMG! Thanks Pantsonfire for that link. That woman is a serious pathological egomaniac. We Pups were right all along. She used her seven year old daughter Piper to chase Jason Recher , (senior Palin advisor) down in order to throw a hissy fit tantrum. SP was determined to give her speech under the guise of wanting to have pictures taken of her family but the McCain people were on to her. She does not have the intellect to be embarrassed! Yikes! I can just imagine her with her extended family, where she is continuosly doing the pageant wave on the stage and the lights were cut off on her. She is a horrible embarrassment. Now, this really needs to go viral! And she wanted to be VP. Ha!!!
She never would have settled for a “ceremonial” role as VP. OMG can’t you just picture her going rogue and moving into the WH? The Rebilicans have a lot to answer for! Country First my royal blue a$$.
From the CBS transcript re McO’Palin’s 2008 loss: Is the Jason Recher the same person who accompanied S’error on her booking for 2012 ghostwritten book tour?
OMG Rick Davis picked her from goolge and youtube…………ROTF
When does she get on the no-fly list?
Johnny that is hilarious and scary! I think for the first time we are privy to what goes on behind the scenes concerning campaigns and other parts of politics because of the internet where we can fact-check! Yes!! Sarah must be slamming her head against the wall but not to despair, because her Facebook ghost writer will respond soon. Ya better believe it!
“As they were about to set off to meet Couric, Palin announced ‘I hate this makeup’ – smearing it off her face, messing up her hair, complaining she looked fat,” the book relates.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/01/11/2010-01-11_new_book_game_change_sarah_palin_believed_.html
@ dowl
I think they are one and the same. Here’s something I read about the book tour:
Jason Recher, who has been alongside Governor Palin through every aspect of this tour, offers loyal assistance to her.
Ok, I know the VP debate is water under the bridge, but it still irks me to hear somebody say that Palin “won” the debate, citing the opinion of most of the “pundits”. How about the polls of actual voters? Not so much. Yeah.
The pundits were the same ones doing backflips after seeing her RNC speech. The people (a lot of them) saw her for what she was: smarmy, nasty, cocky.
Pundits, my ass.
The VP debate was not a debate on Palin’s part. She refused to engage and merely gave a monologue. To characterize it as anything else is disingenuous.
kaboom indeed!
absolutely, when a debater says, “I’m not going to answer the questions you want me to”, then it ceases being a debate. Ifil was not at her best that night. Reading between the lines, it looks like Scmidt took over the debate prep and just told her to filibuster her way throught it. Palin as possible pres, not one of america’s top hours.
If god tapped the VP, he’d likely want a person who can handle last names. Perhaps that is why O’Biden in the VP today and also, too why S’error was a lame duck.
They picked her off YouTube! They shopped her out of a catalog like eBay! They didn’t choose her for her background, her knowledge, her policies, her experience, her potential. She was picked because she was cute on the Tube and because they were desperate.
How utterly humiliating!
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I posted this earlier on palingates. Granny Palin must be seething by now. I expect an explosion or implosion in 3. 2. 1.
It seems to me the “O’Biden” thing, as explained by Schmidt (that she was confusing Obama and Biden) just is one more thing that shows she thought she was running on the top of the ticket. Like her Palin-McCain campaign slip.
It figures that McCain would pick someone who is essentially a pole dancer who keeps her clothes on. No offense to real pole dancers.
@4 pantsonfire, Wow…thanks for that link. What a diva.
I can guarantee that there are tons of stories like this one that will flow like lava should Palin ever decide to run for President. It seems a lot of people within that campaign have been biting their tongue, but they will destroy her.
I wish one of the talking heads would ask Schmidt whose idea it was for her to astound the world with all the winking. A first, I think, for presidential campaign debates. Straight out of reality shows.
my “gutteral” instinct tells me it was Palin’s idea.
trisha, indeed. Palin is destroying what’s left of the Republic Party, and they’re p*ssed. They need suppport and money for the 2010 mid-terms, and they’re hurting as she siphons it off and becomes the Big Distraction. Don’t forget–Republic Party approval is somewhere around 20%.
Of course, for all their political savvy, they picked her from Google, above any other Repub woman with a functioning brain cell left. Palin was the bright, shiny object who turned out to not have an IQ above room temperature, and absolutely NO knowledge of anything other than her own ambition and greed.
…….she would shut down with a catatonic stare…..eyes dead……………
I swear this woman is manic depressive, . Think back to the day she quit. She was breathless with rapid speech, crazed, manic….like a cat on a hot tin roof. Then, read the descriptions of her shutting down, not responding as they are trying to prep her for her Couric interview. Then, smearing off her makeup and messing her hair. She’s up….she down….she’s catatonic….she wound up.
This is not the behavior of a stable or well person.
21 Johnny Says: January 11th, 2010 at 4:31 AM
absolutely, when a debater says, “I’m not going to answer the questions you want me to”, then it ceases being a debate.
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Yeah!
When I read the “attitudinally limited” part, that’s the first thing which popped into my head. If her comment at the beginning of the debate did not clearly show her arrogance, it certainly should have shown the bounds of how she is attitudinally challenged and totally lacking in the head. What’s the phrase used for judges? Temperament.
They could have put her into a ceremonial position, ie, attend funerals, but if McCain kicked the bucket, she would have been moved into his chair. That was a dangerous risk.
I don’t remember people saying she won the debates. I remember people saying she didn’t make a complete fool of herself, but that Biden had won. What pundits (other than Republican hacks) said she won, does anyone remember? And it’s complete b.s. for Schmidt to say that Palin is an energy expert comparable to anyone in the country — that’s just him trying to cover his a** for his role in suggesting her. How’s that pipeline going?
I swear, one day the whole truth about Palin (and all of her lies) will be revealed. She will go down in history as one of the biggest scams ever to be pulled on the American public.
Her rabid fans and the Christian Right will be left with their shattered dreams of their iconic savior being nothing more than a delusional, mentally unstable ignoramus grifter. One who took their money and pulled a fast one on them, no less.
I think Kristol said she won the debate…..of course. He “discovered” this little gem of a psyco, so he was one of a few who thought she won. I also think it was Kristol who wrote that when she winked, sparks flew out of the television and bounced around the room, bla, bla, bla….
It was creepy.
The rest of the nation thought it was innapropriate for a VP candidate to be winking at the camera, and he thought it was the second coming of Jesus.
trisha @ 32 – not to worry. we’ve had the great luck of having some AK bloggers spoon-feeding “the whole truth” to us for over a year. not our fault or the fault of the bloggers that the MSM spends more time preening than it does looking beyond the false facade of the bittertwitterquitter.
Last night I didn’t think that Schmidt had said a whole lot that was new, but having watched all the videos today, I have to revise my opinion. I think that the decision to go ahead with Palin as the VP nomination even when the staffers clearly thought she was mentally unstable is a devastating admission and one that does not reflect well on the GOP. Added to that as LiladyNY says, she was basically picked off the internet because she looked cute. I only looked at the Charlie Rose interview with her for the first time last week, and I was gobsmacked. He asked her about education and she replied with an answer on energy! They obviously weren’t listening to the interview.
Also too, I am glad that they are finally spilling the beans about her and that it is getting some attention in the media. Palin is nothing but a grifter.
Great link pantsonfire!
Thanks to Dusty for live blogging in the chatroom last night.
That mushroom_cloud pic could very well depict the demise of the two-party system in America.
You can hear the whistle of the spear head cutting thru the morning air toward sister’s house from here in Chicago…
Maybe, just maybe the main stream media will FINALLY wake up to the FACT that sister is an unqualified baboon and will begin to focus on the FACTS about her instead of pretending to believe the garbage that has been out on the wire about her by the Murcdoch hate machines….
Simply amazing how the public has been lured into this web of COMPLETE fiction.
Oh, I think for myself, so I really don’t care what nonsense the pundit spew. I use the remote to surf channels as soon as they start babbling.
What I find fascinating is that Palin couldn’t even handle getting Biden’s name correct. A fifth grader could handle that.
Thank God this is finally coming out. But, seriously, more than a year after the election and the American people are only now being told that one of the VP candidates was mentally unstable? We figured this out long ago. What took the “librul media” so long?
And what is with this guy Jason Recher? He knew what she was like but chose to stay with her. Maybe he’s a sociopath, too.
Funny–but, I didn’t mention this, but when I visited her FB page to see if there was any reaction, she is still listed as a “Republican.” I thought she had already switched her party loyalty to the “Tea Party.”
Well, this ought to do it for her, by default. I think the majority of the Party hoo-has have disowned her. She can say bye-bye to the “mainstream.” She’s nothing but fringe now.
Mary, I agree with you that it is infuriating to hear Schmidt relate, unchallenged, that Palin won the debate. How can someone who did not debate her opponent and openly SAID that she was not going to answer Ifill’s questions, but rather, talk straight to the American people, have possibly won a debate. Not debating should immediately disqualifu a person from wining a debate. Does that sound to rational and boring for the MSM, though?
Sauerkraut….did you catch her on BOR when she tried the speil…..”I was only running for VP, you know”. paraphrased, but that’s what she tried to push over on him, which was the first time I’ve heard her try to slide that one by. BOR didn’t let her get away with that, nor did he let her get away with saying that “nobody questioned Biden’s experience, only mine”…..I don’t care for BOR much, but that was the only hard hitting interview I’ve every seen of her, and I say “hard hitting” just because of the contrast with the usual softball and ice cream cone questions she usually gets.
After she finished her speech at the convention, I swear, I turned to my husband and said, “there’s something seriously wrong with this woman”. But then again I had worked at a psych hospital for six years. I truly believe that the McCain campaign knew they didn’t have a chance in hades of winning the election. The choice of Paylin was an attempt to at least increase their numbers, so they wouldn’t lose so pitifully. And remember Obama at the Dem convention? I think McCain desperately wanted a “rock star” on the ticket to approximate the reaction Obama received. JMO.
BTW, Happy “Bye-Bye Palin” week; I have just declared it such! If things work out the way we want, we can put this on the calendar and honor this week every year. Now, how to celebrate??? Set my pants on fire?
They picked a Jessica Rabbit for V.P.
Mentally limited? I’ll say! I really couldn’t have put it better myself.
However – if the McCain campaign staff felt so strongly that Palin wasn’t remotely qualified, why didn’t someone DO something DURING the campaign? She was trotted out to every rally and allowed to spew divisive hateful rhetoric. A lot of the divisiveness & hate we continue to see today is because Palin was given the national stage – which she then capitalised on by quitting her job and taking to Facebook to spew more lies and divisiveness and then writing a book trashing the entire McCain campaign PLUS making millions from it.
What they should have done during the campaign was to say “HOLD ON, we have made a HUGE MISTAKE. This woman is NUTS – get her OFF this ticket – this is is not a joke. Enough is enough”.
That didn’t happen. So now Palin continues to poison the political discourse in this country, continues to defraud and mislead countless Americans out of their hard earned money and continues to foster an extremist, ignorant environment among evangelical Christians who really should know better. She is a LIAR. If they refuse to see what is plainly infront of them, then so be it.
The sooner Palin is exposed for what she really is, the better the country will be. There will always be those who will stubbornly (and delusionally) stick with her. Fine by me. But sooner or later – the truth about Palin that we have all witnessed here for quite some time, will be plain for all to see.
#14 BigSlick Says:
January 11th, 2010 at 3:07 AM
When does she get on the no-fly list?
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How about when she leaves the country again?
#32 Trisha, she will go down in history as the Aimee Semple McPherson of the the 21st century. Now if she would disappear into the night only to reappear, claim she was kidnapped and be found out that actually she was carrying on with her married lover things would be perfect.
Schmidt claimed the loss would have been greater without Palin.
He sure doesn’t think much of Republican voters. “Let’s put out this pretty, shiny stupid bauble and we’ll get votes.”
I’m willing to bet a year’s wages McCain would have done much better in the election if the VP nomination was any number of other, more competent choices he had available.
I was just thinking the same thing about Aimee Semple McPherson. And the stupid people who still followed her, even after that chicken-p00p story.
Sorry about the cold weather for most of the country, but maybe that helped people stay inside, watching TV and seeing this story in the teasers and the 60 Minutes program.
Isn’t “god’s will” what every extremist says right before they blow them selves up?
If there was an ounce of respect left for the Republicans –
it should have evaporated.
Astounding we are actually hearing that not only did John McCain
sell his soul in order to win an election, but other high ranking
Republicans were willing to risk the fate of this Nation
and the Presidents Office. Now they have ME afraid.
Not of the terrorists – but of THEM! What are THEY so
afraid of? What are THEY hiding?
I’ve always suspected that McCain chose Palin because he was scared to death…..he might win!
He knew that the shit was about to hit the fan in the USA and was running simply to fuel his ego. But at some point, it dawned on him that he just might win this damn thing. And that terrified him – no way did he want to actually BE president with the shit about to hit the fan. So he picked Sarah in order to sabotage his own candidacy – he knew he would have a snowball’s chance in hell winning with her on board.
This is what I’ve suspected – she was picked to deliberately sabotage his own campaign. Then blame it on her.
Grandma68 — I love your summation of Palin: “Republican pole dancer Sarah Palin … “ is a an intro line we should have been seeing/hearing since the Aug ’08 RNC.
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As for Palin’s energy expertise, she went off-script one time in an attempt to discuss oil regulation during the campaign, and quickly revealed that she doesn’t understand that topic either – the fundamentals of it were as inaccurate and jumbled in her head as everything else is.
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When FrankenBarbie first hit the national stage and I heard her referred to as Caribou Barbie, my office nickname for her quickly became Princess Caribou – a play on Princess Caraboo – the main character in a story about a commoner girl who duped the shippers and merchants (sounds like Republicans to me) of Bristol, England, in the early 1800s, into believing she was royalty from a distant, exotic land (were there moose and caribou there? and big scary bears?), even though they couldn’t understand a word she spoke – because she spoke a language, a word salad of foreign and made-up words, she herself had concocted to amuse children. By the time her ruse was exposed by a woman who knew her (AKM? Anne Kilkenny?), [the Republicans] were too embarrassed to admit they’d been duped, and kept the ruse going until they could get her on a ship bound for New York.
Don’cha just know, by October ’08 there were a lot of Republicans wishing there were a ship that could make their own embarrassing Princess Caribou disappear? You betcha’.
AKM, if you have anything that will help keep her out of the spotlight, then please bring out now. I am remembering what you wrote during the Christmas holiday that you would have something after the New Year.
My reason for requesting this is because the safety and well being of the children that are living in that household. Someone needs to step in and get those children the help they need. Never mind that a loving grandparent(s) or the father of those children would try to protect them. This whole family including her extended family is incapable of making common sense decisions for the nurtering care it takes to raise children in a loving and caring household.
Everyone is focused on keeping her from gaining any political power to run for any office which includes “dog cather” of Wasilla. But what about the children? They are innocent and need protection and in Trig’s case, needs lots of therapy and care. Just my thoughts.
So much for the “energy expert”, it’s the Wall St. Mormon in ’012!
I think we are witnessing the complete fracturing of the rethug party. Schmidt and company will be the neocon branch who support a strong war policy to support Cheney’s ventures like Hailburton. We have the Country Club set who have no leader but rely upon pundits like George Will and Peggy Noonan who want “fiscal” conservation and the trickle down policy to support Wall Street thieves. And finally, we have the rebiblicans who have been scared into an angry mob to get a “white” country back and will be led by Scarah bin Lyin.
The contest now is over who gets to keep the brand “GOP”. At this point, it is nothing more than a brand that had fallen to 20% market share. When this is played out me thinks it will be less than 7% for each.
Each of the three factions will now be fighting each other and making fools of themselves along the way. I just hope that our WWE mentality media will not ignore real issues of policy while this 3 ring conservative circus plays out. The adults do have serious issues to deal with.
Any shred of hope for GOP funding just went up in smoke. We know Granny Grifter will not take a penny out of her own pockets, so it is up to the few and wacky to send in their pennies, which might not go very far towards paying for her private jet trips.
As for her personal life. Well, Gryphen just put a blog up saying this woman needs help. I’m afraid that until she has a mental breakdown, her “friends” will not intervene, and even then they may try to cover it up, for the sake of their own careers.
As for the kids. Alas! They may need to save themselves. Levi knows what is going on, and is trying to save his kids, but the others are on their own. God help them. Granny has a ton of money, and they have nothing, so it will be hard for them to walk away. No one but Todd can say: “Your mom’s dysfunctional, you’re all coming with me.” But he has put up and enabled her craziness for years. Why should he care now?
I hope Levi’s lawyers were paying attention. Giving full custody to Bristol who is living under her mother’s thumb and roof would be a bad thing considering she has just been described as mentally unstable. The description of her behavior back up those claims. Catatonic…unresponsive..eyes glassy…etc.
Very odd.
Maybe they could depose some of those staffers as evidence that Palin is not fit to be raising his child.
So now she has fulfilled her destiny!!!
http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/
January 11, 2010
Categories:Fox News.Palin joins Fox News as contributor
As soon as the 2008 election ended, speculation began about whether Sarah Palin’s next move would be in television.
Now, the NY Times reports that Palin has signed on as a Fox News contributor.
The network confirmed that Ms. Palin will appear on the network’s programming on a regular basis as part of a multi-year deal. Financial terms were not disclosed.
Ms. Palin will not have her own regular program, one person familiar with the deal said, though she will host an occasional series that will run on the network from time to time. This person would not elaborate, but the network does have a precedent for such a series. Oliver L. North is the host of an occasionally running documentary series on the military called “War Stories
MissSunshine said, But he (Todd)has put up and enabled her craziness for years. Why should he care now?
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I think Todd does more than enable her…he encourages her because she is his ticket. She brings fame, fortune, and power (at least she did while governor).
He get to play the thug and threaten Levi, Trooper Wooten, and others. I think the power has gotten into his head. I also think he likes being a hotshot and tough guy. Plus, I’m sure he loves the money
HA,HA, HA………….that’s hilarous about Fox. Now her friends at Fox can experience her “mental instability” upclose and personal. Just wait until Palin throws some diva fit or melts down before airtime.
Karma….such a good thing.
$arahmonial, roflol, does it come with a sash?
Good luck closing that Pa(li)ndora box, Mr Schmidt. Also, too, could you please tell us which charity/ies was/ere benefited by the sale of the designer clothes from “the little shop of horrors?”
I haven’t read the other comments yet or listened to the clips,BUT..
can someone date ‘ when ‘ that last clip at the bottom is from..?
Is it recent because the facial appearance is SO different. I guess the face is fuller and all and you might think she is quite a few years older, just from that pic. It’s just a Lot ‘ different ‘. Maybe this was before she started her various crazy diets and using Red Bull as one of her main food groups to make herself thin. IIt’s not like any of the other photo-op pics we are used to seeing. Was this pre-surgery and Botox?
trisha Says:
January 11th, 2010 at 5:54 AM
I swear, one day the whole truth about Palin (and all of her lies) will be revealed. She will go down in history as one of the biggest scams ever to be pulled on the American public.
Her rabid fans and the Christian Right will be left with their shattered dreams of their iconic savior being nothing more than a delusional, mentally unstable ignoramus grifter. One who took their money and pulled a fast one on them, no less.
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hey trisha…and you know these folk won’t like that. there are plenty rabid fans and xtian right maniacs living close by in good old Wasilla Alaska
Considering she never understood what it was exactly the Vice President of the USA ever did, it isn’t a surprise that GOP political operatives realized she was unfit for office.
“Attitudinally limited” LOL – I’d been saying Arrested Development and H.S. mean-girl statis, but this is classic!
O/T but sorta related, did anyone read the New York Magazine’s article on Game Change? Low whistle, for those that think elite liberal “lamestream” media only picks on Sarah Palin, my my my, this link is scathing in its judgement of former South Caroline Democratic Senator, V.P. running mate to John Kerry and 2008 aspiring POTUS candidate John Edwards and his wife Elizabeth.
http://nymag.com/news/politics/63045/
For those who knew John and Elizabeth, they must have felt the same way about them (bewildered, incensed and offended) in the way we feel about Sarah and Todd.
Last night I was thinking happily about what got said about SP, this morning I’m wondering about the motives, the message, and timing, and thinking “Schmidt is a snake.”
Particularly, why does Schmidt feel that he can say this on a big stage without being labelled as disloyal and not to be trusted in judgement or in following orders?
Guesses:
Going Rogue hurt him and his career a lot. Too many Saraphants believe what she said, and although his career is with the main GOP, probably the mainstream would see him as wimpy if he didn’t respond. Could someone like Romney hire him as a visible manager if the Rogue story went unchallenged? Any gag McCain put on expired with 2010 or at the end of her book tour. And this message was beneficial to the mainstream.
The continuous criticism about risking America to Palin as president needed answering.
Game Change says so much that there was need to get a compensatory story out first.So what does he actually say?
Smoke and mirrors.
He seems to take some credit for choosing her and ends by saying that this kept them from losing even bigger. (No news here.)
He says there was virtually no vetting, even less than Game Change seems to claim. (So don’t blame them for being blind-sided.)
What Schmidt identified as wrong with Sarah was being mentally and attitudinally limited; ignorant and a liar and although a fast study, unable to cope with what she needed to do. (All these things are hard to detect in an outsider vetting, so they are less culpable for not detecting them. )
What Schmidt carefully does not say (unless “attitudinally limited” covers it) is anything about her personal life or religion. (Avoiding collision with values voters.) Yet some of this would have come up in even a brief internet vetting. How could they miss the witch-finder? They saw it and liked this stuff, they wanted it- or didn’t even recognise the warning flags.)
This morning’s thought after sleeping on the interview:
He lied. They did vet her enough to see the problems and they picked her anyway. Mainly he lied about when the campaign knew this.
Game Change alleged little vetting so they tried to get ahead of that and present it as an excuse. He covers McCain and others by subsituting “She had us all fooled” instead of “We took her anyway.”
And even in the face of Cooper’s question about doing it again, Schmidt claims: I was powerful, I was loyal, I did my job and I succeeded in raising the odds.
Snake.
PALIN SIGNS WITH FOX NEWS.
WASHINGTON POST ALERT JUST THIS MINUTE
AKM has posted a new thread just for the Fox Story just now.
Enjay in E MT–LOL!! Let’s hope, though she doesn’t really ever leave the country much, so it might be a while…
I watched 60 Minutes last night with hubby who still tries to pretend that SP isn’t an issue anymore. I think it was a good reminder for him. And whatever Schmidt’s motive was, it was nice to hear the accusations against Sarah coming from someone who actually had to deal with her.
Again, we are left with the question of “what were the McCain people thinking?” And now we know. It’s even more disturbing than we thought in 2008.
AKM, thanks for posting the clips. It was good to be able to see it again.
But, you know, I don’t think any of this will make any difference to the loyal Sarah Palin followers. They just aren’t capable of seeing through the haze that surrounds her. But maybe it will be a wake-up call for some of the Republicans and some of the independents who can’t decide which side of the fence they like.
She would have just resigned if the McCain/Palin ticket had won
A comment from Bree Palin’s blog:
Anonymous said…
There are news reports of Arthur Culvahouse, McCain’s vetter, was in Alaska as early as June, 2008.
I don’t believe Schmidt’s story that she was vetted on Google, that’s ludicrous.
Dig into Culvahouse, that’s where your story is.
January 11, 2010 10:39 AM
Ceremonial POTUS – but who would be the master or ceremonies. Who would be the puppet master. Who would write her scripts, her press releases, manage who had access to the POTUS, choose her apppointees, set the agends for her meetings, fashion her budgets.
Those people exist now, operate behind the scenes now. If Sarah does not fulfill their needs, they will find another pretty faced airhead, male or female, and will try to rule the world through that person.
70 Pat, Washington state
“Again, we are left with the question of “what were the McCain people thinking?” And now we know. It’s even more disturbing than we thought in 2008.”
Amoral and immoral, victory before the good of the country.
Dear political operatives.
What did you expect and what were you thinking?
You found your candidate on YouTube and you vetted her on Google. Duh.
Let that be a lesson to you and don’t let it happen again.
Schmidt deserves no credit. Pretending she was a viable candidate in the face of her continuing public disaster proves that they are putting partisanship over what is good for the country. Nice patriots indeed!