Thank goodness for hot mikes..
...or we'd never get the truth.
Two conservative commentators on MSNBC say what they really think about the GOP VP choice...when they think they're off the air.
Peggy Noonan is a political conservative and was the primary speech writer and Special Assistant to President Reagan. Mike Murphy has advised such prominent Republicans as John McCain, Jeb Bush, Tommy Thompson, Christie Whitman, Lamar Alexander, and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
"Noonan, Murphy trash Palin pick over open mikes, September 4, 2008
From newsday.com: "Two GOP icons - former Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan and former McCain strategist Mike Murphy - were caught trashing vice-presidential pick Sarah Palin yesterday when they kept talking after they thought the audio was off during an interview on NBC, and a YouTube version of their off-off-message exchange rocketed around the Internet at light speed.[..]"
Here's the video, the dialogue in question starts 38 seconds in.
Rough transcript:
Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And --
Mike Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state governor world: Engler, Whitman, Tommy Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush. I mean, these guys -- this is how you win a Texas race, just run it up. And it's not gonna work. And --
PN: It's over.
MM: Still McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.
CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.
PN: Saw Kay this morning.
CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this --
MM: They're all bummed out.
CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?
PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --
CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.
MM: I totally agree.
PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.
MM: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.
CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.
MM: Yeah.
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Wow, when you lose those two...
The thing is -- they will go on babbling away about how awesome McCain is, and how Palin is the fresh-faced game-changer and this and that and the other, and one will ever say -- "Hey, remember when you didn’t know the mike was on and you called it bullshit and said the race was over?"
Noonan tried to apologize later in the Wall Street Journal ...spun it ever-which-a-way. Who are you going to believe, my column or your lying ears?
