Wouldn’t that hurt their chances of getting hired later by the Romney campaign?

This should make things easier -

http://www.gwu.edu/~action/2008/mccain/mccainorg.html

The smear-Palin stories may have embarassed her (and McCain) during the late stages of the campaign, and even shortly thereafter. But I truly believe that today, stories like the VF article and its associated infighting, actually work to Palin’s favor. What happens is that the anti-Palin stories (which first of all VERY FEW people even read) serve to rally conservatives and even moderate Repubs to Palin’s defense and cause folks like us at RS to “out” the a**holes who were the sources of the story. And what’s more, these stories throw gasoline on the fire of those who suffer from PDS, to the point where they look so ridiculous that they are starting to fall into the category of the 9/11 trufers (or more appropriately, the Trig trufers). I mean, is there a person alive who is not a deranged radical liberal who gives Chris Mathews ANY CREDIBILITY WHATSOEVER! Between his tingly leg and his anti-Palin vitriol, he has truly “jumped the shark into crazytown”.

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Why are you going soft of these guys?

My advice to the McCain staffers?

Find yourselves a job as far away from politics as you possibly can. Hope that we don’t hunt you down there… and that we can find some forgiveness for you as you hand us our order out the drive through window.

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Thank you for that. Every last one of them should wear the McStain until they prove themselves lily white.

Everyone who worked on the McCain campaign ought to have a scarlet M branded to their forehead and banished forever.

Time has blurred many of the stupid moves and acts of that campaign . But, an elephant never forgets.

If any of them were honest and had a shred of decency, they’d publicly apologize to the party for their blind personal stupidity and greed. On the internet side, there’s several who got out front telling us how great McCain would be, that he was the only Republican that could win, how all these “independents” and cross-over Democrats who were helping him win were going to vote for him in November and–worse–how stupid we all were for saying it wasn’t going to happen, that the GOP lost the day McCain won NH and FL. Gee, who turned out to be right?

Funny how the McCain backers won’t tell us how great he is anymore and the insiders have resorted to propping him up by tearing everyone else down—just like their boss. And by funny, I mean typical and predictable elitist, insider parasitic behavior.

Though I think all McCain staffers should also be required to pass a basic competency test prior to hiring. Not being a backstabber is a good start, but not enough after the Straight Talk Trainwreck.

..been the subject of constant and concerted political and personal attacks at such a high level for this long (almost 8 months and running) after they’ve lost. Especially if they’d never held national office before.

Thinking back, I can’t think of a similar case.

This says that her opponents view Sarah as the key condensation nucleus for a defeated Republican party that is ineffectively swirling around the atmosphere.

Her ability to articulate conservatism and connect with a national audience at this point is something that no other Republican comes close to at this time - and the Democrats see this.
n(This is not a Sarah for 2012 endorsement - nor a commentary on her skill in being governor nor her ability to effectively deal with state issues - but rather a more basic recognition that she is a key player at the national level in our efforts to reestablish an effective Republican party grounded in conservative principles.)

Which is why we need to rally to her side in the face of these kind of attacks and especially turn on anonymous and cowardly backstabbers.

We not going to allow them to control the image of our party leaders via their well organized and potent spin machine.

I think some may be reticent becasue they see as Palin worship. But this fight has already been started, so its a stand we must take. And make no mistake, the Dems will do this to every potent candidate. This is activism agaisnt media bias not a Sarah for 2012 fight.

This is activism. Maybe the most important activism. Calling out and exposing the media hit pieces. And fighting back. The batttle and victory against Letterman was epic.

The biggest fools are the Republicans who buy into the spin. It starts with a liberal think tank, spreads to the blogs, Hollywood hack pick it up, Dems toe the line and perpetuate the myth and then some dumb Republican like Scarborough sits there and says

“Geesh, hasn’t she become tainted”; or “isnt she kind of joke”.

No kidding dipsh*t.

We not going to allow them to control the image of our party leaders via their well organized and potent spin machine.

I think some may be reticent becasue they see as Palin worship. But this fight has already been started, so its a stand we must take. And make no mistake, the Dems will do this to every potent candidate. This is activism agaisnt media bias not a Sarah for 2012 fight.

This is activism. Maybe the most important activism. Calling out and exposing the media hit pieces. And fighting back. The batttle and victory against Letterman was epic.

The biggest fools are the Republicans who buy into the spin. It starts with a liberal think tank, spreads to the blogs, Hollywood hack pick it up, Dems toe the line and perpetuate the myth and then some dumb Republican like Scarborough sits there and says

“Geesh, hasn’t she become tainted”; or “isnt she kind of joke”.

No kidding dipsh*t.

Worked on that campaign that were nowhere close to Sarah Palin? And now folks here want to bannish them from working in politics . Are you kididng me? Look, I think anyone that works for a campaign has an obligation to keep the dirty laundry to themselves–that’s professionalism. Trust me, no future candidate will hire someone they can’t trust. But, to cast a shadow over anyone associated with McCain campaign is absurd. Yes, the McCain campaign wasn poorly run, but blame the people running it, not the low-level staff that worked tirelessly.

I would love to know who the sources were in that article, and hopefully we will find out one day, but the tone this topic has taken is downright scary.

Everyone who reads here knows that I don’t like Sarah Palin and disagree with her on many, many Alaska issues. That said, we have some things in common, foremost among them the fact that we are both longtime Alaskans, she only a few years longer than I. She grew up here and I have spent almost my whole adult life here. Alaska isn’t as different now as it was back when John McPhee wrote the lines that VF quoted about it in the ’70s but life here is still very different from the life most people live Outside. Most longtime Alaskans are fiercely prideful and individualistic, many to the point of, shall we say, eccentricity. They do not play well with others! Especially, they do not play well with those well-tailored oleagenous sorts who tend to be campaign staffers and Beltway luminaries. At least until her stint as VP candidate, I probably had considerably more experience in dealing with the Beltway types than she did and, frankly, I cannot stand to be in a room with them. Even today, it takes every fiber of my being to remain civil with that sort and I only do it if I have to, which means if I’m being paid to.

One thing Gov. Palin and I had in common back in the Murkowski Administration was detesting Greg Renkes, Murkowski’s first AG. The man oozed Beltway, the Governor had brought Renkes to Alaska from his DC Senate staff, and I viscerally disliked him from the moment I met him. I didn’t go as far as Sarah and rat him out to the media and the Public Offices Commission, but I did everything in my power to undercut him as his actions might effect my turf. Renkes had the same style and affect as practically everyone I’ve ever met who worked in DC for any length of time; they simply cannot turn the superiority off when they deal with mere mortals. That is a demeanor that will quickly make you a lot of enemies here and in some places expose you to bodily harm. Frankly, I’m surprised that there are no stories of Sarah or Todd taking a swing at one of the staffers; I know I’ve come close more than once with some superior creature from DC telling me how something was or was going to be.

So, while I and others who have dealt with her here might echo some of the criticisms of her, and unlike most, probably all, of you I know all the Alaskans cited in the VF piece, I can fully understand why Gov. Palin would absolutely hate the McCain/Beltway staffers and they her.

John McCain was unique in that he selected a campaign team that not only was incompetent, but also had a number of members of questionable chaqracter.

First of all, Todd Purdum (the author of the Vanity Fair article ) has a history of writing unsourced hit pieces, without any links, that only quote anonymous staffers (most of whom probably exist only in his head). For example, during the Democratic primary, Todd Purdum wrote a totally unsourced hit piece on Bill Clinton that only quoted “anonymous staffers” who supposedly stated that Bill Clinton was “out of control”, partying all of the time, and dating a bunch of women. Now to be fair, even though Bill Clinton does have a long history of womanizing, during the Democratic Primary, he was perpetually by Hillary’s side and was ALWAYS a very visible and very busy presence on the campaign trail. Therefore, I think that if Bill Clinton was doing all of the things that Purdum accused him of, someone, somewhere, would have seen this and would have reported on this besides Todd Purdum and his “anonymous sources” (translation-made up). I mean, look at what happened to Mark Sanford–you can’t sneeze or fart in politics without somebody finding out. Here is the actual quote that Bill Clinton said in regard to the Todd Purdum story:

— Tightly gripping this reporter’s hand and refusing to let go, Clinton heatedly denounced the writer, who is currently married to former Clinton White House Press Secretary, Dee Dee Myers.

“[He's] sleazy,” he said referring to Purdum. “He’s a really dishonest reporter. And one of our guys talked to him . . . And I haven’t read [the article]. There’s just five or six blatant lies in there. But he’s a real slimy guy,” the former President said.

When I reminded him that Purdum was married to his former press spokesperson Myers, Clinton was undeterred.

“That’s all right– he’s still a scumbag,” Clinton said…

“You know he didn’t use a single name, cite a single source in all those things he said.. It’s just slimy. It’s part of the national media’s attempt to nail Hillary for Obama. It’s the most biased press coverage in history. It’s another way of helping Obama. They had all these people standing up in this church cheering, calling Hillary a white racist, and he didn’t do anything about it. The first day he said ‘Ah, ah, ah well.’ Because that’s what they do– he gets other people to slime her. So then they saw the movie they thought this is a great ad for John McCain–maybe I better quit the church. It’s all politics. It’s all about the bias of the media for Obama. Don’t think anything about it.”

“But I’m telling ya, all it’s doing is driving her supporters further and further away– because they know exactly what it is– this has been the most rigged coverage in modern history– and the guy ought to be ashamed of himself. But he has no shame. It isn’t the first dishonest piece he’s written about me or her.”

Here is the link–

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/02/the-final-meltdown-billy-jeff-loses-it-over-the-vanity-fair-article/

Anyway, my point is that the Bill Clinton is right–the reason why Todd Purdum went after Bill Clinton is because he was seen as opposing The One during the Democratic Primary, and thus became “the enemy”. Now, the MSM (and scumbags in it, like Todd Purdum) see Sarah Palin as “the enemy” of the The One, and so now they are going after her–it’s simple logic.

Anyway, I have two points here. One, is that during the Democratic Primary, I saw too many conservatives (such as Dick Morris) cheering for Todd Purdum and calling him a “great reporter” when he did his hit piece on Bill Clinton. I always thought that this was dangerous, because when you jump on a bandwagon like that, it can always swing around and hit you in the ass–today it’s Bill Clinton, tomorrow, it’s Sarah Plain. I think that our side is always best served by calling out shoddy journalism no matter who the target is, so when they do come for us we can say, “See, they did this before”.

My second point is, that I think that Bill Clinton is right, in that Todd Purdum is just a slimy guy who makes up blatant lies and then finds some low level staffer to kind of sort of agree with what he thinks and then writes it as fact. Think about it. If I were to write a blog here that said Obama was using drugs and was back attending Reverend Wright’s church, but only quoted “anonymous sources” and provided absolutely no links, you guys would laugh at me, and I would probably get banned from Redstate. However, Todd Purdum basically does the same thing to other politicians and he is revered as some kind of great journalist ?! Whatever.

By the way, my husband saw Purdum on “Hardball” basically admitting that he made up the whole Palin story. He said that he “doesn’t write for today”, and “that people will say in 15 years that it was pretty close to the truth” (translation–”I made it up”). See the link to the video below if you can stand the Chuck Todd man love for Purdum. (Fast forward it to 8:35 to see the incriminating quote–don’t sit through the whole thing unless you feel that you need to be punished for something).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/30/todd-purdum-discusses-his_n_223569.html

Anyway, my point is that I bet my new white Gucci sunglasses (that I recently bought on vacation in the Bahamas) that most of Todd Purdum’s “anonymous sources” exist in his head, and the rest probably just half-heartedly agreed with a little of what he said and he twisted their words. I think that instead of wasting our time going after “anonymous McCain staffers” (that mostly exist only in Purdum’s head), that we should be going after Todd Purdum himself, and other MSM hacks that make up blatant lies and try to smear anyone who dared to run against The One. Just my thoughts.

I’m firmly in the anti-palin camp. I just don’t get the appeal.

Christine Pelosi, Attorney, author and Democratic activist:
10,000 words and they still don’t get it: Vanity Fair just gave Sarah Palin a huge gift. Why is character assassination via biased reporting and anonymous sources a gift? Because it exemplifies the coarseness and elitism she claims is undoing America in general and undermining her in particular. Speaking as a proud Democrat who opposes just about every one of Sarah Palin’s policies, I know there was a civilized way to explore her charisma and flaws, but this story was not it. The tone seemed to be “Palin practices the politics of resentment so we will too.” My guess is Palin circulates this hatchet job and raises a fortune.

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is someone for Republicans to treasure and nurture. Besides, if they keep twisting in the wind this much, we won’t need to import so much oil.

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were also Romney staffers and I do believe those oh so smart inside the beltway people think we rubes out here cannot see there is a push for Romney and an attempt to undermine Palin. If they read anything on this site here is hoping they hear this ” YOU IDIOT’S WE ARE ON TO YOU”!

BTW if Romney wants to have any credibility going into 2012 he had better man up and tell the youngsters to settle down and act as if We The People will decide and that the kool-aid drinkers in DC will NOT! I suggest in his next interview he might mention how petty and pathetic these “insiders” are at trying to destroy a great Governor of the GREAT state of AK!

Whoever has his enemy at his mercy &
does not destroy him is his own enemy

the bill he signed in Massachusetts has been a disaster. He is already dead to me.

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responsibility for his staffers. I’d be willing to bet he knows who is villifying Sarah Palin. The fact that he has done nothing about it is a testament to his total lack of moral leadership.

His answer to the mortgage situation was to come up with a go along to get along plan for the govt to buy up bad mortgages. Just more “me too” politics.

And, since the MSM acccuses anyone who objects to nationalized healthcare of being a shill for the insurance companies, Romney’s overtures in that direction here to date sound just like a carefully crafted PR game designed to split the middle…a startegy that didn’t work for McCain and won’t work for anyone else.

And that’s why we need an independent thinker, free of hyper clever tactics ostensibly needed to get one’s self elected — like Sarah Palin. Her policy proposals come from the same common sensical view of the world necessary to hunt moose in the Alaskan tundra.

BTW, this is a little off the subject. But permit me to take this opportunity to publically thank Neil and Moe for their tireless work in keeping RS afloat.

Being a fairly retrograde hayseed from Alabama, I’m not real sure how the whole website thing works. I’m glad some conservatives do, however, and my hat’s off to them!

For a politician who has long professed his commitment to personal honor, McCain showed none at the end of the election when his staff made vicious anonymous attacks on Palin as a scapegoat and he did nothing to stop or expose them. His perfunctory comments at the time were a disgrace, as though the attacks were just politics as usual, and of no concern to him.

The recent article is just more of the same. Since nobody exposed them, the personal destruction by these anonymous smears goes on. Their egos must be stroked by their media friends to convince themselves of their continued importance. They are like dogs, stimulated by the feces of other dogs.

The first qualification for 2010 or 2012 Republican campaign staff should be to have no prior association with the McCain campaign. What a disgrace.