Sarah Palin...rogue diva?
John McCain's people are calling her a diva and it's really kind of funny...that's the SAME attack they used on Barack Obama through the summer. Looks like they could come up with new material.
The scramble to blame either McCain or Palin in the aftermath of a lost election is going to be so intense that it's already started.
It's kind of fascinating to watch, I must admit.
Sarah Palin has gone off message and McCain's staffers are rebelling...and they're taking their gripe public. This is the kind of stuff that happens shortly after an election, not before.
"ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico (CNN) – With 10 days to go until election day, long brewing tension between Sarah Palin and key aides to John McCain has become so intense, it is spilling out into the public.
Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin “going rogue” recently, while a Palin associate says she is simply trying to “bust free” of what she believes was a mishandled roll-out that damaged her.
McCain sources point to several incidents where Palin has gone off message, and privately wonder if they were deliberate. For example: labeling robo calls “irritating,” even as the campaign was defending the use of them and telling reporters she disagreed with the campaigns controversial decision to pull out of Michigan.
A second McCain source tells CNN she appears to now be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign."
Looks to me like Palin sees the writing on the wall and wants to jockey for a position of strength and power inside the party. John McCain is not the future of the GOP -- what do you want to bet that he retires next year?
What do you want to bet that Sarah Palin is going to use the biggest stage in the world for the next few days to try to set herself up for a run in 2012?
Yes, she has certainly captured the hearts of her hardcore base, but her devoted crowd of born-agains probably aren't large enough to launch her national career. Too bad she doesn't notice how most of the rest of the party is running for cover.
"One McCain supporter has asked to be removed from campaign committees because of Palin. Charles Fried, a professor at Harvard Law School, and former Solicitor General under Ronald Reagan, asked the McCain-Palin campaign ro remove his name from several committees, mostly because of "the choice of Sarah Palin at a time of deep national crisis."
So, while Palin mobilized the hardcore right, she has alienated and offended the great national middle...the place where the winning votes are.
While campaigning in Iowa she tried to make a connection between Barack Obama's tax policy and a looming communist government...that Obama would create a country "where the people are not free."
How batshit is that?
Also, in a recent interview she gave a contradictory and nonsensical answer on what constitutes a terrorist. She claims that William Ayers is a terrorist but Eric Rudolph, who bombed the Olympics in Atlanta and those abortion clinics, is not.
I guess clinic bombers are doing The Lord’s work when they blow up civilians, women and doctors. See, you have to KILL life to save life…
BTW-- the Anchorage Daily News, the largest paper in Sarah Palin's state, endorsed Barack Obama for President.
