The Leper Leaps for Obama

Aaron Gardner

…the fact that McCain had a Obamanaut on his staff handling Gov. Palin shows a tremendous amount of either stupidity or McCain really did throw the whole election.

Either way this just makes me sick.

AceInTX

[quote]tremendous amount of either stupidity or McCain really did throw the whole election.[/quote]

AceInTX

tremendous amount of either stupidity or McCain really did throw the whole election.

Lamplighter331

She’s dead to me.

Lamplighter331

She’s dead to me.

Aaron Gardner

jonnot

I think that the only word that describes this piece of excrement was the word John McCain himself used so lovingly to describe his wife: “…that c*nt”. I think that pretty well sums up my opinion of Ms. Wallace…AND her former boss!

AceInTX

Leper Leaps FOR Obama makes it sound like the Leper is lunging for him in attack mode…Leper Leaps TO Obama is more apt IMHO…

Aside from that, I agree that she should be shunned in Republican circles…As troubling as it is that she was in the McCain Camp, (which really isn’t a surprise to me that he’d surround himself with people like her), what troubles me more is that Beltway Republicans are already singing the tune that Obama will be a two term President beginning before he was even nominated…I’m hearing it more and more from these crap weasels and it’s scaring the crap out of me…given the near surrender of the RNC and the party because this was a third term election, and a bad atmosphere for Republicans and there are more Republicans seats to defend than the Democrat…does this mean we can count on the party to write off the next 8 years and not fight till 2016?

I’m ashamed to call myself a Republican any more!

Princeliberty

What is Ms. Wallace’s background? Any idea of who helped get her onboard with the Campaign.

McCain had a terrible group of people around, shows how unprepared he would have been to President.

McCain really needs and deserves primary opponent in 2010.

AceInTX

Thinking 4
Hmmm

icbm

mccain advisor to fall in love with obama?

Aaron Gardner

icbm

Prior to joining the McCain campaign, she worked as a political analyst at CBS News. She served President George W. Bush as an assistant to the president and director of communications for the White House from January 2005 – June 2006, as communications director for President Bush’s 2004 re-election campaign and as special assistant to the president and director of media affairs at the White House.

icbm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolle_Wallace

If you want more details

AceInTX

Hysterical

Bourbeau

I’ve thrown up all over my keyboard! Now that that’s over, I can’t express the disdain I have for the likes of John McCain, Nickole Wallace, Lindsey Graham and the others. We deserve this. We let that moron be our candidate knowing full well, who he was, and what he stood for. None of this surprises me; what it does do is make listening to him and his friends regret the day I ever thought they could represent us. Yes!!!! I’m committed to never seeing her or any like her anywhere near a Republican candidate.

http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

But seeing how many so-called Republicans are surrendering, it’s sounding more like the latter, akin to the spirit of Revelation of those who throw in the towel whining “who can resist the beast”. I’m not saying here that Obama is the Beast – much too early to consider that considering the historical competition – but this total cowardice and unwillingness to stand on principle when the wind turns reflects a moral vacuum that has infected much of our leadership, and that unchecked may well doom our nation.

I’m also reminded of these lines from Yeat’s “The Second Coming”:

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity

Ten good persons would have saved Sodom – are enough left standing to save America? We shall soon see, I suspect.

icbm

eh? didn’t get enough last time we went around? heh.

seriously, though, among the advisors themselves, i think we might see a couple more come out and say similar things. let’s just hope all this stuff wears off quickly once his policies become apparent and all republicans and conservative democrats remember what they believe in.

icbm

or perhaps she was actually on the liberal end of the bush administration, which would put her democratic camp, really. i haven’t looked at her statements prior to the campaign.

so either little conviction, or too much liberal conviction.

AceInTX

I just couldn’t help my self!

http://www.erickerickson.org Erick Erickson

Exactly.

Josh Painter

Nefarious Nicole was a friend of… wait for it…. wait for it… here it comes…. Katie Couric! I’m sure you all remember perky Katie from her Sarah Palin interview, for which she prepared by studying with “informal” chief advisor to Barack Obama Sam Nunn.

And guess who arranged that interview? If your answer was anyone but Nicole Wallace, then Jay has some lovely parting gifts for you.

Now, for the Super Slam Jackpot, here’s the $164,000 question:

What McCain Campaingn insider came up with the bright idea to send a “stylist” out on a super shopping spree for clothing that Gov. Palin never asked for, but was pounded by the media over?

tic… toc… tic… toc…

And everyone has the right answer! Again, it was Nicole Wallace!

Yeah, I know. That was too easy….

- JP

Achance

should extend to all kinds of staffers. There really aren’t a lot of “Republican” consultants and staffers out there. I’d be willing to wager that the majority of the staffers to Republicans in DC and in the States voted for Obama. The best a Republican can do with these people is usually the apolitical technician, the true mercenary who is doggedly loyal to whomever is signing his/her paycheck.

There a a variety of reasons for this. Being a minority staffer is a thankless task; you don’t get to go to the good parties or date the cuties and Rs had been in the minority forever. Republicans try to be lean and mean so they don’t have a lot of staff. Republicans don’t have the shadow government of union, non-profits and foundations that the Democrats have. So, if you throw in with the Republicans and your guy loses, you’re back to selling cars or something.

Every elected or appointed Republican in the Country should be looking for a place to put the good people being thrown out of the federal government as the result of the last election, but they won’t. And there you get to the other problem, the aversion to controversy. GWB and the Congressional Republicans became unpopular, so hiring somebody who worked for them would be unpopular. Therefore, a good, skilled, experienced staffer or ‘crat is going to the scrap heap or to the Democrats.

It happened to me when I quit the Executive Branch in ’96 over the constant fighting with a Democrat Administration that had promised the unions my head. I wasn’t even an appointee but by then I was pretty closely associated with Governor Hickel and the Legislative Republicans. The Republicans rather sheepishly offered me a contract to work for the Legislaure, no staff, no office, no name on the door, they even tried to keep it quiet that they’d contracted with me. Of course, it leaked and was front page news. Contracts with Democrats for many multiples of what I was getting weren’t news, but mine was because I’d dared to oppose a Democrat and the Rs had actually stood by me – sorta. Went on that way all three sessions I worked for them. Even today, when they have troubles, they’ll call me, but they really don’t want to be seen with me.

Whatever else, those people who were working for McCain had to have a job after the election and they couldn’t count on the Republcans to give them anything. Makes you into a very compromised and compromising person.

http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

…usually incompetence and unanticipated events are sufficient explanations.

However, you are amassing some strong evidence here for deliberate fifth-column sabotage, perhaps fueled additionally by personal animus by Nicole towards Sarah.

On second thought, not sabotage but political assassination.

Finrod

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Darin_H

Ace is 100000% correct…..

Rapunzel46

Problem is he never, ever has opposition here. Time Magazine had a article not long ago that his son had worked for the AZ Chamber of Commerce and McCain still hold sway over that body of Arizonans which holds over the AZ GOP.

Rapunzel46

How different Katie’s body language was interviewing Obama last week vs her body language when she interviewed Sarah Palin? unprofessional is the first thought that comes to mind… and Nicolle is who set up the interview and insisted they go forward over multiple days. My money is on her spilling the wardrobe info and claims Sarah was petulant, etc.

http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

If we Republicans don’t get a clue, we’re going to become window dressing on a socialist state until the pretense of democracy gets tossed under the bus. It’s their playbook of tyranny since the 1930′s.

I salute the many here at RedState who see this and who are bravely trying to cleanse the Augean Stables of the Republican Party. And if we don’t reverse this in the next 2-4 years (i.e. by the 2012 elections) that spiralling attrition that Art describes here is going to doom the party, which will leave the fate of our nation in the hands of the squabbling factions within the Democratic Party and the outcome of their conflicts – a situation ripe for a charismatic despot to seize power.

Finrod

From her wikipedia biography:

George W. Bush appointed her as White House Communications Director on January 5, 2005, the same day her predecessor, Dan Bartlett, vacated the post to become a more general Counselor to the President.

Gee, what was George Bush’s second term known for? A complete inability to communicate the Republican message through the media. And guess who was responsible? This bloody leper.

azaeroprof

As a technical person, I am so Occam’s Razor, never buy into conspiracy theories or the like. But the case you make here makes a conspiracy involving N*cole W*llace (no profanity on Redstate!) the explanation that makes the fewest assumptions. The only question is: did she act alone, or was McCain part of the deal. I think he has enough ego that I find it hard to believe he would sell out the campaign unless there was some carrot at the end. Since he hasn’t been appointed to any position in The One’s administration, that appears not to have been the case.

Which, in the end, makes McCain just a complete idiot for hiring Ms. W*llace in the first place.

http://www.hakubi.us/ Neil Stevens

Finrod

David Frum mentions here how he “crossed swords” with Nicolle Wallace over the Harriet Miers nomination.

Here is Nicolle Wallace pushing Harriet Miers’s nomination on CNN.

E Pluribus Unum

OMG that is just so…. so……. fitting for her. Completes the picture.

Hey, do you think such a crap-weasel would have been found in the Fred Thompson campaign? They had some chumps and some posers, but nobody I know of that was a traitor to the whole party and movement.

azaeroprof

Funny, when I went to Wikipedia to look her up, I typed Nicole Wallace instead of Nicolle Wallace. The former link is a Law and Order character played by Olivia d’Abo who is described as a “a sociopathic con artist, thief, and serial killer.”

Hmmmm…….one and the same??

Achance

not just reading about. We are on a cusp right now; we can do something to restore the traditional American republican democracy, the communists might win, at least for a while, or a revanchist movement will unleash Hell. I long for the first but would be neither surprised nor particularly disappointed by the last. Only in the cities are Americans prepared for communist conformity. Out here in the country, we’ll kill you for trying to make us do something we’d otherwise want to do. They’re not going to turn this country into the nice little peaceful soviet workers republic they all masturbate over. People like me and mine will actually kill things, even people; we don’t just fantasize about it.

Martin Knight

NC_Red_State

It is really no suprise that he allowed the best thing in his campaign to be sabotaged by one of the worst things in his campaign. McLame did not deserve Sarah Palin or the boost that she gave to him. The RNC did not deserve her or it either. Their collective efforts to make no effort should have disqualified them from the benefits she bestowed upon them.

The fact that N*cole W*allace would even be allowed to carry Palin’s luggage makes me sick..

This would not have happened on Fred’s watch…too bad he 1/2 a$$ed the effort in the primaries.

azaeroprof

Martin Knight

Here’s the link.

NOTE: Back then she was known as Nicole Devenish – Wallace is her married name.

CC: Daniel Bartlett, Nicole Devenish, Scott McClellan, et al.

BCC: George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Andrew Card, Karl Rove

Good day Ladies & Gentlemen,

As a Conservative and a Republican, it is quite painful for me to write this and indeed I do deeply regret that I feel so strongly that I would do so.

You, my dear Ladies and Gentlemen of the White House Communications Office, are incompetent. Indeed, your incompetence can only be described is incandescent in its purity. It goes without question that no other group of White House staffers have so ill-served their President in the past fifty years.

In all your five years of service, one can count on one hand, when you have shown any sign of creativity, foresight, calm, preparedness and/or courage. The time has long passed since when it could be said that you instilled or inspired confidence in this Administration’s supporters (such as myself), much less the nation as a whole.

One shudders to think of where this Administration would be without the advent of talk radio and the Conservative/Republican contingent of the blogging community to defend and successfully promote this Administration – whether it be the President, his policies and his record.

It may be as a result of burnout, boredom or limitations in wits, but you have failed your President in every possible way there is to fail a President. Your decision to counsel silence, to inpotently cower from this Administration’s foes in the Press and from across the aisle even as the President’s standing in the polls crashed, will be remembered for decades for the nearest to perfect demonstration of White House Communications incompetence, timidity, blindness and stupidity in half-a-century. At the very least, Nixon’s White House went down fighting.

Know that it matters not whether or not you’re contending with a monstrously hostile Press Corps. The American voter who votes according to the negative perceptions of the President driven by the Press counts just as much as that of the well-informed who sees through the lies on the front page of the New York Times.

Your job is to find a way to defeat this obstacle like any other and get the American people behind your President. It requires creativity, and non-pedestrian minds who are capable of making use of the myriad of advantages you have over past Republican Presidents faced with a uniformly Democrat staffed Press.

But, unfortunately, you have proven yourselves constitutionally incapable of doing so. Instead we have watched as this Administration has stumbled from one contrived controversy after another with virtual silence and somnolence from your office.

While indeed, your loyalty to this President is commendable, and indeed, you should be and are thanked for it, it is not enough. Competence is just as important. You lack it … and thus, if you were not before, you have become useless and worthless in the capacity in which you serve, no more than ticket punchers and dead weight, and it is time for you to do the honorable thing and tender your resignations.

Thank you very much for your service to the President and your nation but in the words of Oliver Cromwell;

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Yours Sincerely,

Martin A. Knight

azaeroprof

Hmmm…the picture begins to sharpen! This may be a conspiracy larger than just N*colle W*llace sabotaging the McCain-Palin campaign. It appears to go back to at least the middle days of the GWB administration, and to involve more than just N*colle. Let’s see, N*colle came out of CBS (not to mention being a Berkeley grad!), where did Scott McClellan come from?

http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

Your Occam’s Razor description is what I was alluding to in my comment above about incompetence and unanticipated events usually being explanatory rather than conspiracy.

Yet this does appear to be that rare occurrence where we appear to have a purposeful series of events that all lead back to the same individual in a position of power in a consistent pattern that has a higher probability than coincidence.

I don’t know Wallace’s mind set, as to whether she acted in sincere accord with her beliefs, but her behavior towards Palin (especially with regards to Couric and perhaps setting up Palin on the clothes shopping [did she leak the story after she used her position to force these clothes on Palin?]) indicates malign intent as in abuse of power, betrayal of trust regards her campaign position.

I agree that the Occam’s Razor presumption is that McCain was incompetent in employing Wallace rather than conciously sabotaging his own campaign – again, incomptence and unanticipated events (the financial meltdown and McCain’s disastrous response) suffice to explain McCain’s behavior. Indeed his behavior matches well his prior behavior from before his was a candidate.

In retrospect, I’m still not sure why McCain ran for President. He certainly doesn’t seem to have been able to articulate his reasons, even now.

At least with Obama as President, I know that I always need to be prepared and carry vasoline whenever he’s around. With McCain, I’d never know when he would screw me.

Achance

just lead a politician down the primrose path. If you’ve been around a while, are known, and are vouched for by “friends – as that word has meaning politically, the candidate or officeholder will just follow you around. Frankly, most people who can get elected these days are dumb as stumps anyway. The highest and best skills for attaining political office are pretty much the same as those required to be the local TV 6PM News Anchor; good hair, winning, quick smile, the ability to talk in sound bites. For women, being pretty helps.

The big advantage the Ds have is they surround their stupid empty suits with smart staffers. We surround our stupid empty suits with people who are either hopelessly compromised or just as dumb as the officeholder.

azaeroprof

Scott McClellan’s mother is a long-time Texas politician. While she ran as a Republican (until the 2006 gubernatorial election, when she challenged GOP Gov. Perry as an Independent), she was a Democrat until 1986 and even was a county chair for the Mondale campaign. Sounds to me like a “Republican-of-convenience” who “switched” parties to be able to oppose an incumbent and stuck with it to take advantage of the GOP rising tide in Texas.

Also, for what it’s worth, GHW Bush, Dick Cheney, Walter Mondale, Bill Clinton, Henry Kissinger, and Jimmy Carter ALL are current or former members of the Trilateral Commission, a “conspiracy” organization that goes back almost 40 years. Interestingly, GW Bush is not listed. Just a thought…

Achance

who suddenly discovered their inner Republicanness about 1994. This is why I hate the primary system. With caucuses (cauci) and conventions, the people deciding who can be the nominee actually know something about the candidate and it is somehing other than a contest to see who has the most and best TV commercials.

GCBWI

are something i have never really understood.

If the point of the primary system is to help the political parties to select their candidates, why do some states allow people to cast vote in a particular party’s election without declaring themselves to be members of that party?

Achance

A JSSC decision over the CA primary in the late ’90s cleared that up. A Party can restrict a primary to its own members or to its members and the NPs or make it open, their choice. Here in AK we Rs allow Rs and NPs but not Ds. The Ds allow anybody. Most of the lesser parties allow anybody because they have to maintain 2-3% of the GE vote to stay on the ballot though most don’t actually have primary elections, they just save the money and their nominee goes strainght to the GE.

My problem isn’t just with open primaries. My problem is with ANY primary. I like the caucus and convention, not a bunch of people whose only qualification is fogging the mirror deciding my nominee.

aesthete

The 2 reporters who reported the story were the only ones who apparently heard McCain say this, and their conflicting accounts make it unlikely that this happened anywhere, except the fevered imaginations of 2 liberal reporters.

And, just in case you’re not a moby, this is a family site, and profanity is generally frowned upon here.

aesthete

How did McCain think it was a good idea to hire her? Further proof that anyone involved in George Bush’s 2nd term PR front should never be given a job by a Republican again.

http://moelane.com/ Moe Lane

Oh, right:

Blam.

redneck_hippie

very interesting.

My takeaway from all of this is a conviction that many more are finding it “safe” to come “out” for The One now that the baton has been passed.

It is good to be able to see who your enemies are. The sheep’s clothing is sometimes hard to see through, but seeing lips planted on posteriors is a dead giveaway.

From ME to You

…a bunch of people whose only qualification is fogging the mirror deciding my nominee. -Achance

From ME to You

In Chicago they don’t even have to fog a mirror!

I hate when that happens!

http://www.RedState.com/ETCartman Kenny Solomon

Thanks for that, Achance.

I’m 49 years old and the single last thing I’ve ever imagined and still don’t like to consider is the possibility of having to take up arms against tyrants in disguise as fellow Americans in the cause of keeping our home a free land.

The more I witness dissent of any type try to be shouted and coerced out of existence, the more aware indeed have to seriously consider what may be at hand in my lifetime, if not the near future.

When I purchased my first firearm long ago, my two thoughts were to get really good at something as a hobby (target shooting seemed like fun and a great way to self-discipline through safety) and that God forbid I ever needed to protect myself, I’ll be able to with more than just my hands.

Now, I have a pretty good eye for a target center (even the moving ones) and am always overtly aware of ‘the location of the open end of the bang stick’ and what can happen if I’m not.

Finrod

But he’s not looking for political jobs any more, alas. I miss him, he was one of the brightest spots of Bush’s second term.

aesthete

Even most of the Dems I knew though he was a stand-up guy.

indym

and sometimes not always in the way we think. There are a lot of careerists is the state capitols and in Washington who want to remain popular with either the press corps or the new administration. I think Nicole Wallace is looking for a job with one of the networks or cable outlets and realizes that being nice to President Obama can help. Republicans are the out group in Washington right now and saying nice things about republicans except on Fox News can cost you a job or appearance on these shows. Also most of the staffers are not wealthy and need a job.

Also I am going say something that I know will not sit well with many. Most of us do not know Sarah Palin. I am a fan and a supporter. However I did not have the opportunity to meet her when she came to my state during the campaign. While I certainly do not approve of the conduct of the McCain campaign or McCain himself as it relates to the gossip regarding Gov Palin, we were not in the briefing sessions with her and have not way of knowing what went on.

http://andrightlyso.com/ civil_truth

We weren’t there, but the commentators have raised serious issues of loyalty, which leads to these questions:

1) Did Wallace leak to Couric the content of the briefing session and otherwise assist Couric in ambushing Palin, being as she was the one who chose Couric in the first place, and given her pre-existing friendship with Couric.

2) Did Wallace anonymously leak to the press the Palin wardrobe matter while deliberately ignoring her role in instigating the purchases in the first place and did she inflate the purchase amount, in order to put Palin in a bad light.

Tbone

Could anyone possibly expected anything better out of the McCain campaign? Gee, a backstabbing political whore hiring a backstabbing political whore. Suuuurpriiiise!

Finrod

Hunter’s in the forest hunting liberals.

He blows the liberal call, which sounds suspiciously like ‘No nukes!’

Liberal pops up, saying ‘No nukes! No nukes!’

Hunter says ‘There’s one!’ *BLAM* Liberal says ‘Aah, gun control, gun control!’ and runs.

Final frame: off-panel the Liberal can be heard saying ‘Ow, socialized medicine, socialized medicine!’

icbm

the couric tour of the mccain campaign office this past summer. it wasn’t so hot (and i mean even apart from the usual idiocy from couric).

http://conservative-and-proud.blogspot.com/ eschristian

I have made up my mind and I hope the GOP leadership listens, I will not vote for a McCain ever again. Sarah Palin helped me to overlook fake McCain but I knew McCain was still his same liberal guy. I will not do it again. There were 2 reasons I voted for McCain – stop Obama/socialism “spreading the wealth around”, and Sarah Palin – CONSERVATIVE (do you hear that GOP???).

We have the most liberal President ever because we had a liberal Republican on our ticket. But NOT ANYMORE. Conservative or I will write in Conservative on my ballot from now on.

azaeroprof

See it here.

redneck_hippie

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