McCain aides privately call Palin a ‘total disaster.’
McCain aides privately call Palin a ‘total disaster.’
On Salon Radio this morning, Glenn Greenwald asked Harper’s Scott Horton about his recent reporting on how Weekly Standard Editor Bill Kristol lobbied the McCain campaign to select Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) as the Republican vice presidential nominee. Horton explained that the McCain campaign is now regretting following Kristol’s advice, calling the Palin pick a “total disaster“:
HORTON: We’ve got a lot of finger-pointing going on within the camp, and I’d say there’s a pretty broad agreement amongst a number of the senior-most advisors to McCain that the Palin pick is worse than disappointing. It’s a total disaster, as one describes to me. And there is a sort of blame game going on there. [...]
I would say the anger and irritation between a number of the senior people in the McCain camp and Bill Kristol is become really acute. … They view this man as the guy who gave them this albatross, Sarah Palin. I think there’s a lot of real anger about it. There’s also recognition that it’s too late to do anything.
Horton said neoconservatives are “now just proceeding to develop Palin as their candidate, as somebody they want to bring up in 2012, as the neo-con favored Republican.” Last month, a former Republican White House official, who now works at the American Enterprise Institute, said, “She’s bright and she’s a blank page. She’s going places and it’s worth going there with her.”
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She’s a blank page alright.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:19 pmSo let me get this straight. The McBane campaign chooses Palin and they blame Kristol? I have no respect for Kristol, but Republicans claim to be the party of “personal responsibility” and here these guys are sloughing off the pick on Kristol. Suck it up and take responsibility for your disastrous pick! Geez! You were fools for listening to Kristol!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:20 pm.
R E M E M B E R:
Johnny doesn’t run this McCampaign!
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October 16th, 2008 at 2:22 pmOOO… more crap for Kristol to get thrown under the bus for. Man, they’ll look for anything and any reason to keep the sh*t off themselves, won’t they?
October 16th, 2008 at 2:22 pmhere’s my attempt at reaching across the aisle.
republicans; stop picking stupid people. you’ll go alot farther with exceptional people with exceptional intellect. for an example, please see the man currently putting a boot in your ass.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:22 pma former Republican White House official, who now works at the American Enterprise Institute, said, “She’s bright and she’s a blank page. She’s going places and it’s worth going there with her.”
Blank page? They’ve got that right, at least.
Bright? So is the Sun, but looking at it will blind you.
Going places? Right. Right back to Alaska, hopefully.
RNC, if this is the best you have, you ain’t got much.
So ‘lil billy kkkristol is getting credit for this pick? The same guy who declared this campaign a disaster? Sounds like ‘lil billy to me. His lack of intelligence and propensity for bad predictions is stellar, and diminished only by Palin herself.
If this is the best the Republicans have for 2012, Democrats may well have a super majority for the next 8 years.
Sweet!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:22 pmIt is sad to think that the neo-cons are excited about another blank page…look at the damage done by the current blank page in the White House.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:23 pmShe is a “blank slate….” So does that mean they have already accomplished phase 1 of brainwashing and now just have to implant her with new memories ?
And, of course, how could the premier expert on energy policy and foreign policy be simultaneously a blank slate ?
October 16th, 2008 at 2:23 pmThis is a good sign. The neo-cons will be so busy pointing fingers and assigning blame after McCain loses that they won’t have time to start assembling the Blame Obama machinery until at least week 2 of the term….
October 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pmThey forget that nobody put a gun to St John’s head when he chose Palin.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pmSo does Huckabee think for himself too much to qualify as the neo-cons’ next savior?
October 16th, 2008 at 2:24 pmTHEY LISTENED TO BILLY KRYPTONITE KRYSTOL!
On something as important as the Veep pick!???
They get what they deserve. A disaster. Heh.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:25 pmIt’s a total disaster, as one describes to me. And there is a sort of blame game going on there.
- – Well, like I said in an earlier post, the neocons are pointing Palin at 2012. But the VP pick is a president’s first executive decision. The buck starts and stops with McCain on this choice.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:25 pmYou mean all that talk of her being qualified was bull….go figure. Thats it…I’m voting for Obama.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:26 pmnow that is a juicy rumor. i wondered what Bill Kristol’s recent outburst was about. It seemed strangely personal.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:26 pmAnd this woman, according to McCain last night, is a good role model for all women.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:26 pmOT, but check out this story:
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Vote2008/story?id=6047360&page=1
“Wurzelbacher conceded today that he is not in danger of being hit with the higher tax rate. He acknowledged that he wants to buy a plumbing company for $250,000 to $280,000. That wouldn’t be how much profit he would make from the firm.”
So the plumber-without-a-license wasn’t ever going to earn $250K, he wants to buy a company for that much money. Even assuming a 20% rate of return, he would only earn $50K. What a joke!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:26 pmEvery time I’ve read or heard a righty praising Palin and her qualifications, it sounds more like they’re trying to convince themselves. McCain’s praise of her last night is no exception.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:27 pmThis was Bill Kristol’s doing? They took his advice? HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
What a maroon!!!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:27 pmJust add this to the list of reasons why McPalin should not be elected as President!!!!!!!!and the list goes on on with his cabinet,no way Old man.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pmThe Snowbilly (thanks Zimzone) is tanking the campaign? I thought they had vetted her, so why are they mad at him for picking this FABULOUS running mate? After all, she’s got B**bs just like Hillary, right? I thought that was all that they thought women cared about.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pm“She’s bright and she’s a blank page.”
– - Don’t forget, pathological liar.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:28 pmHey! McIIIrd Campaigners? Got plug nickels?
October 16th, 2008 at 2:30 pmi’m much more worried about the neoCONs who like her than the mcCREEPY aides who don’t…
October 16th, 2008 at 2:31 pmWhere’s my trollies at? No where in sight apparently, since they really can’t defend this worthless piece of polar bear doodoo.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:31 pmPalin is blank. That is for sure.
It’s an insult to women everywhere that he thinks she is a role model. I would call her a SPOKESmodel. She’d probably sell a lot of cars.
No way should she be president.
Please chek out my jazz band (yes that’s me on the piano):
October 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pm‘ERE
(I know it’s a blatant plug, but I’m a long time poster here, can ya help a brudda out?)
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The McAides have no idea how loved Sahra Falin’ is…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRqcfqiXCX0
Jesus, save me from your followers. PLEASE!!!
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October 16th, 2008 at 2:33 pmnot sure when that picture of her was taken, but she’s got her new look going on so i’m guessing recent… and wearing ALASKA pins just doesn’t project a “country first” message…
October 16th, 2008 at 2:34 pmIf the Republicans don’t run her in 2012 she can always run on the AIP ticket instead. She can promise not just to cut taxes but to cut states.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:38 pmBy naming the Barbie-moose to his ticket to begin with, calls his judgement into question-among other issues. Now she is a millstone dragging him down.
I LIKE IT!
October 16th, 2008 at 2:39 pmTo quote Obi Wan Kenobi:
October 16th, 2008 at 2:41 pmWho’s more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?
Impeach Pelosi, Cheney and Bush and Save the Constitution!
And I suppose that list of cabinet appointments that Kristol provided has been crumpled and tossed now as well.
Come on Repubs, some accountability please. This is what happens when you don’t vett your candidate and pander to a fringe group.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:45 pmMcSame is taking advise from the same guy who gave us the neo-conservative PNAC and who has not ever been right about anything? Chalk this up as another piece of wrong information from bloody Billy Kristol
October 16th, 2008 at 2:48 pmWonder what an impeachment as a state governor will do to her rep when the Neo Nuts try to explain that away….ggeezzz
October 16th, 2008 at 2:51 pmI wonder if Sarah Palin remembers Katherine Harris?
October 16th, 2008 at 2:51 pmPlease please PLEASE let AEI and the rest of the neocons spend the next four years polishing this deep freeze twinkie for a run down the rabbit hole. I can’t wait to see the fratricidal 2112 Republican debates featuring Mittens Romney as the pro-millionaire candidate vying with Palin as the born again neocon and whatever other mossbacks this dying party can assemble. Much better for them to try to salvage this ethically-challenged dimwit than to polish up someone who doesn’t already have a full digital library proving their incompetence posted on You Tube.
October 16th, 2008 at 2:54 pmGreat! I can’t wait till 2012, Palin will be more of a disaster then. Lies and corruption are all the neo-cons have left anyway…
October 16th, 2008 at 2:59 pmThe only thing Sarah Palin is qualified for is to be the grand marshal of the stupid parade.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:02 pmOh, snap. Very good kist.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:11 pm37 bros ~ Perfecto! I was thining Klan rally, but stupid parade, just as good or better…
October 16th, 2008 at 3:13 pmI cannot believe Palin was the best Republican female they could come up with ! Maybe she was the only one that wanted the job. I wait and wait to hear one concrete, honest statement from her. She asks who is Obama, well I ask who is Palin ? The Repubs have insulted every intelligent female choosing her to represent a female in the White House.
Where is her “Executive” skills in accepting, one should realize when they are not qualified for the position.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:13 pm“She’s bright and she’s a blank page. She’s going places and it’s worth going there with her.”
If by bright and blank you mean “certified damaged goods”. That’s all that woman will ever be. (unless there is a kkk renaissance in the next couple years)
Somebody please get the poor stupid righty voters in red states some money, so they’ll shut up and wander off the national political landscape. Put’em to work, pay’em well, and they’ll spend their time bass fishing and scrapbooking instead of listening to am radio demagogues and driving the country off track with their dumb voting preferences.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:15 pmThe wicked witch of Wasilla a disaster? Oh, come on, she could hardly be much more of a disaster than the ancient lying, war criminal McBlinker himself…
October 16th, 2008 at 3:16 pmNo kidding.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:21 pmI wonder if they’ll appoint Cheney to her VP selection committee and then he will find himself to be the most qualified and we can start the puppet master routine all over again. I think Palin is more dangerous than Bush. Bush seemed willing to be pushed around a bit. Palin is pathologically narcissistic and believes herself to be entitled to do pretty much whatever she wants. She already, supposedly, is blaming McCain for ruining her chances at national office. There’s gratitude for you.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:26 pmWhat is it with the GOP and their choice of village idiots?
October 16th, 2008 at 3:35 pmMax-1 Says:
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R E M E M B E R:
Johnny doesn’t run this McCampaign!
That’s right! Lobbyists run McCain’s campaign, but McCain doesn’t associate with lobbyists, so McCain never knows what is going on in the McCain campaign.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:35 pmEven, even staunch republican friends are scared to think of Palin taking over the Presidency when Mccain keels over. Or worse goes into senility. How much stress can a 72 year old man after two years of constant campaigning take ? Of course maybe the people behind the scenes are hoping for that so they can pull the strings.
October 16th, 2008 at 3:36 pmPalin is worse than incompetent because she thinks she knows everything and takes no direction.
Won’t someone anyone please show up here to defend this woman? Come on gang you oddballs thought she was the shits just a few weeks back. She’s spunky. She has chutzpah. Remember? Come on. Tell me what a breast of fresh air she is…
October 16th, 2008 at 5:11 pmdb,
A “breast of fresh air?”
**snort**
October 16th, 2008 at 5:13 pmThey view this man as the guy who gave them this albatross, Sarah Palin. I think there’s a lot of real anger about it. There’s also recognition that it’s too late to do anything.
Perhaps if the McSame campaign had vetted Palin? Nah!
October 16th, 2008 at 5:24 pmIf true, I think its terrific news that Palin is being groomed by the neo-cons to be their standard-bearer the next time. You think Hillary’s negatives were bad? You only get one chance to make a first impression. Palin made a terrific first impression with the wing-nuttery, but the rest of the country has made up their mind, too. A toxic one-trick pony. I hope they ride her right off the cliff in 2012.
October 16th, 2008 at 7:54 pmHah. Palin in 2012. Forget it, neocons.
I think you neocons have finally pissed off whatever is left of the actual true Republicans. And are you the only folks on the planet that can’t see what a total disaster she is, politically?
She did a great service to us all, in a way. She was so blatantly unfit, so abysmally unprepared, that despite her political skills, it has woke up a lot of formerly complacent voters, and opened their eyes to the cynical fact that all that matters to you neocons is allegiance to your agenda, and not quality or qualifications.
No Republican who sincerely cares two whits about their party anymore, is going to let Ms. Palin anywhere near a national elected office. She is poisoned forever as unelectable.
October 16th, 2008 at 7:59 pmPalin is an out and out Fascist.
October 16th, 2008 at 8:11 pmThis is pure nonsense. Kristol is always right about everything, Palin’s doing great, and the McCain campaign should continue to take his advice because he’s so gosh-darned brilliant.
As a matter of fact, his recent advice to fire the entire campaign and go it alone – or even better, appoint Kristol as your new manager! – is just such a wild and crazy hail-Mary game-changer, that it’s sure to coast McCain into the White House with ease. Trust me. (imagine frozen Kristol grin here)
October 16th, 2008 at 8:44 pmI believe that no one – not anyone even somewhat qualified for the GOOP ticket would have accepted the ticket with McBush – it is a losing game and losing tickets don’t go well the next go around. Failin McPalin is toast and everyone knows it but herself. The debate last night with Obama and McBush answering about the qualifications of their VP choices were quite obvious about the faith that each candidate had about their choices. McBush lost; Obama won (on that question alone).
October 16th, 2008 at 10:54 pmThe amazing part of this is that the GOP is still laboring under the delusion that Kristol has even the foggiest notion of what he’s talking about. This guy has been spectacularly wrong on just about every major issue of the last eight years. The New York Times has been forced to issue multiple corrections due to his cluelessness, and yet the GOP, for some mystifying reason, still values his idiotic opinions.
William Kristol is part of a class of people, who no matter how badly they perform, they still don’t fail. If most folks did their jobs in this fashion, even if you work at McDonalds, they would be fired.
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