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Circular Firing SquadsCue the closet Palin haters.
I’ve trod the boards of the Halls of Power© often enough to understand that there’s a permanent political class just underneath the dozing senators and congressmen you see on C-SPAN, people for whom the cause – whatever it might be – is far less important than the access. That tends to be more true the higher you get – interns are famously passionate – and at the very top, political convictions among the jobbing set become as stylized and impenetrable as a kabuki dance. With their own reputations for getting things done on the line, the losers often begin to snipe among themselves for a time before remembering that they’re all in the job line together. When that happens, they turn to choosing a convenient scapegoat. Sometimes they’ve got the goods. Sometimes they have to stretch:
Me? I think I’d be ret honored to see herself in a bathrobe. Different strokes, I guess. 27 comments to Circular Firing Squads |
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[...] all over the anti-Palin recriminations and reprisals. NLex sneers at the circular firing squad. Last war. Time to move on, as the lefties say. Though as Redstate notes, never forget. I’d [...]
the absolute glee carl cameron spewed to Orielly last night was disgusting…quoting “unnamed staffers” what a hack…
“Uncommon?”
HA! I hope so! Cuz no-one ever would want to admit EVER!!! that they had also knocked on Joe Biden’s door with the same result!
You know, maybe she had some gaps… I harken back to Pappy with “Show me a Hero and I’ll prove he’s a bum!” we all have weaknesses, it is how we present them and deal with them that is important.
I think Sarah did fine, her straight talk was a welcomed relief. Maybe she’ll study up a bit where need be and put the rest of we the “Oh so learned” to shame… oh and I would recommend these twerps not submitting their resume’s.
IMHO Palin helped the McCain ticket immensely. He can be thankful She agreed to run on the ticket or this loss would been more on the order of a landslide. I don’t think She was as prepared on some issues as She could’ve been. I would account this to Her not having to deal with these matters. I also believe she would have caught on quickly. I have complete confidence in her leadership ability.
McCain Aides=sour grapes.
Sarah for POTUS in 2012!
Face it, this was pretty much a perfect storm for the Republicans. McCain and Palin did not run a perfect campaign, but holding the dems to 52% popular vote and less than a complete disaster in congress was a significant accomplishment. It could have been a lot worse.
Republicans need to define the core in a way that is inclusive of the “80% friends”. If they do that, then the democrat party-time will be over in two years. That core needs to be debated and defined in a way that attracts people. So far, there is way too much finger-pointing and not enough soul-searching going on, IMO.
At one point Cameron mentioned that somebody (inference being the source) was “reduced to tears” by Palin…
Then there was the shock of seeing her in the bathrobe.
Was the source gay or female?
A. After spying her all wet and covered with just a bathrobe…
B. I’d be so lucky enough to have the woman reduce me to tears….
(1) McCain staffers need to learn to love those on their side as much as their boss loves his ‘friends’ and ‘enemies’;
(2) Our government needs to slim down, starting with having a lot fewer professional staffers and get the heck rid of interns – anyone who wants to be part of the government that bad has to be part of the problem;
(3) Carl Cameron always comes across as a *itchy g*y demi-man. He’s just jealous. And, yeah, there is something wrong with that.
(4) By the way: Nice Job, Sen. McCain, in getting the big money out of campaigning. Ha. Really knew how to accomplish that, eh? Lots of competent staff help on that one maybe? Just one more great example that Senator Mac was not the right guy to be running the show.
sid: I’d cry too.
Tears of gratitude, that is.
I’m just sayin…
i’d be falling down on my knees, with tears streaming..
Hell, *I* would be thrilled too, if my door swung that way.
That being said, I think the venom comes from these staffers/interns/chief-flunkies-in-charge-of-SLOJs because they know that, when Palin and Jindal run in 2012, they won’t be anywhere NEAR the campaign.
Which is a Very. Good. Thing.
I’m with you, Homefront 6 … venom usually comes from those not brave enough to stand out in front and carry the flag themselves. Hope those folks are least in sight when the campaign for 2012 begins.
Marianne
IMHO – McCain’s staffers should thank Palin for the votes McCain did get…she saved that ticket from an embarassing third place finish behind Bob Barr.
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We have a RIGHT, dammit, to photographic confirmation of Gov. Palin in that bathrobe.
Agree with all of you that Palin saved that ticket from embarrassment and with Greyhawk who said before Tuesday that the McCain campaign was the most incompetent he’d seen in a while. Maybe those ‘anonymous staffers’ have realized they didn’t play a very good game and need someone to take the heat off them.
Palin for POTUS – 2012!!
I had a conversation with a fretful Republican early Tuesday who was convinced that McCain was going to get trounced and would be lucky to win Arizona. I said, no, that’s what would have happend with a McCain-Pawlenty ticket, not McCain Palin. I predicted he’d get 200 electoral votes. Guess I was a little optimistic.
Palin is one of the future stars of the party. Pretty much everyone else associated with the McCain campaign needs to find a new career.
What I find fascinating is that no one – yet -has attempted to blame McCain’s loss on Bush. Or maybe I’ve missed it.
But to place the blame on Palin when it was McCain’s own staffers who put her in a cone of silence instead of letting her “do her Sarah thing” – hypocrits.
eyes above the neck boys. keep ‘em above the neck…
Folks here at work are still bashing Governor Palin. Kinda pisses me off. Get over it.
The fun begins in January…
S—t! The only reason I voted at all was that Palin was on the ticket. A bright star out of the north-west that showed up the drabness of all those running and the emptiness of those inside the beltway. (The Glitterati?) It’s no wander they trashed her. Where were her guards, her helpers, her protectors, the professionals, those who knew the workings of the “Big Machine?” Now they are polishing up their fingers for all the better to point with? “Not my fault. Her fault”. Such low-life amateurs! So now we have a fraudster, a charalatan, a con artest in the big white house. Yeah, it’s all Palin’s fault.
I’ve started flying my flags upside down. I’m not going to go along to get along! I’m gonna drag my feet. I’m gonna watch them “walk on the trails”.
Damn, I need another 2 fingers of Black Jack.
Maybe I’ll feel better tomorrow.
Not!
Blackeagle603,
sorry, my eyes would have to travel down to ensure she is fully covered
and to verify that her legs do in fact reach the floor.
Trust, but verify
So the McCain camp think she’s a moron that won’t take advice….. but then what does that make them for picking her for VP?
Bullnav: “The fun starts in January.”
Heh. And I already have a “3-letter word” to sum up Vice President Biden: Idiot. Almost can’t wait for him to start being himself in spades.
Johnny McComity needs to take a well-earned break… he did us proud years ago, so let it ride at that. Enjoy yourself in the Senate, but now it’s time to STFU and let the younger folks lead.
That would be you, Sarah. Pick up the battle flag, and point the way forward. If you want to let your knockers fall out of your blouse like in the famous painting, I’m cool with that, but just lead, baby, lead!
Yup, “Liberty Leading the People”.
Years ago, my wife was part of McCain’s DC Senate Campaign staff. I got to see who they were and how they worked, close up and personal. Let’s just say they were a huge part of why I never trusted McCain. Nothing here to surprise me.
re “the Bathrobe”
Me too Lex! I can hear her now ala “Tina Palin” rang her doorbell and she came to the door dripping in a bathrobe:
(all at 90 db) “Get yer butt in here Bob (pronounced BAHHHHB loudly) and have a cuppa joe (that’s pronounced) JOOOoooe…..”
“….B2 meekly- yes maam….”
I love the woman. She’s been the only “real thing” in politics over the past 2.5 years. They’re trying to destroy her future (all sides-dems,repubs,MSM). Probably because of her cultural conservative values on abortion and that oxymoron- gay marriage.
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