It's entirely possible that Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin single handed sank the GOP ticket by driving rational conservatives not to mention moderates and independents away from the ticket. Yet the Kool-Aid drinkers of the delusional far right of the GOP continue to have orgasmic fits over her and see her as the future of the GOP. They must be drinking the Kool-Aid by the barrel full. As the New York Times reports today, Palin was definitely a rogue within the campaign and seems in many ways to have been out of control - i.e. I previously posted about the prank call she took from Quebec comediennes, not knowing that she had scheduled the call obviously without any confirmation of who was really calling. Here are some highlights from the Times story:*
As a top adviser in Senator John McCain’s now-imploded campaign tells the story, it was bad enough that Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska unwittingly scheduled, and then took, a prank telephone call from a Canadian comedian posing as the president of France. Far worse, the adviser said, she failed to inform her ticketmate about her rogue diplomacy.
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The disputes between the campaigns centered in large part on the Republican National Committee’s $150,000 wardrobe for Ms. Palin and her family, but also on what McCain advisers considered Ms. Palin’s lack of preparation for her disastrous interview with Katie Couric of CBS News and her refusal to take advice from Mr. McCain’s campaign.
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As late as Tuesday night, a McCain adviser said, Ms. Palin was pushing to deliver her own speech just before Mr. McCain’s concession speech, even though vice-presidential nominees do not traditionally speak on election night. But Ms. Palin met up with Mr. McCain with text in hand. She was told no by Mark Salter, one of Mr. McCain’s closest advisers, and Steve Schmidt, Mr. McCain’s top strategist.
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On Wednesday, two top McCain campaign advisers said that the clothing purchases for Ms. Palin and her family were a particular source of outrage for them. As they portrayed it, Ms. Palin had been advised by Nicolle Wallace, a senior McCain aide, that she should buy three new suits for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in September and three additional suits for the fall campaign. The budget for the clothes was anticipated to be from $20,000 to $25,000, the officials said. Instead, in a public relations debacle undermining Ms. Palin’s image as an everywoman “hockey mom,” bills came in to the Republican National Committee for about $150,000, including charges of $75,062 at Neiman Marcus and $49,425 at Saks Fifth Avenue. The bills included clothing for Ms. Palin’s family and purchases of shoes, luggage and jewelry, the advisers said.
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One of the last straws for the McCain advisers came just days before the election when news broke that Ms. Palin had taken a call made by Marc-Antoine Audette. Mr. Audette and his fellow comedian Sebastien Trudel are notorious for prank calls to celebrities and heads of state. Ms. Palin appeared to believe that she was talking to President Nicolas Sarkozy of France, even though the prankster had a flamboyant French accent and spoke to her in a more personal way than would be protocol in such a call.
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So how does the Christianist set explain away these debacles? It was all the fault of Palin's handlers. They are utterly unwilling to accept the fact that Palin was in WAY over her head and that she's basically a bimbo who doesn't recognize her own limitations (just like the Chimperator). Here's highlights from Family Reseach Council's delusional commentary:
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God bless Sarah Palin and her beautiful family. Only she brought life into the campaign run by the Republicans. She did it not only in her record on life, by her advocacy of life, but in the life circumstances she displayed on the night of her announced candidacy. She fought for her principles and she performed well under the circumstances. And what circumstances might I have in mind? Simply put, her handlers.
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Unfortunately, I saw it begin to happen when her handlers put her on tv with one of the most partisan women on the television screen, Katie Couric. Did these contractors/handlers think that could possibly go well?Why was she not introduced to the national media via Laura Ingraham. . . . I am encouraged about her future even more as a result of her shedding these contracting parasites.
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David Brooks, David Frum and others can gag all they want, but she is the future of the Republican party.
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