Top McCain aide: We might have stripped Palin of office
Nicolle Wallace, White House communications director under President George W. Bush and senior adviser to John McCain, has begun to talk openly about the campaign’s problems with Sarah Palin.
I’m not interested here in rehashing the shortcomings of the former Alaska governor. None of that’s relevant any more, because I doubt she’ll ever again seek elected office. However, I do want to point out a remarkable bit of information that Wallace dropped into a recent Time interview:
“There certainly were discussions — not for long because of the arc the campaign took — but certainly there were discussions about whether, if they were to win, it would be appropriate for her to be sworn in.”
Let’s think about that for a minute, shall we, because that’s one for the history books. Within the upper echelons of the McCain campaign, they talked about stripping the vice presidency from Palin AFTER they had used her to win?
How on earth do you pull that one off? Palin would not have surrendered such a prize voluntarily. Imagine the conversation if President-elect McCain and his staff came to Palin the day after the victory celebration and pressured her to resign.
I don’t think she’s the type to have said, “Yes, I suppose you’re right,” and waved merrily to the cameras as she caught a flight back to Wasilla.
And how exactly would the McCain people explain that to the American public? “You know the woman you just elected vice president? The one we told you was ready to become president should the time come? Well, she’s no longer got the job, because, well, you see ….”
Sarah Palin wasn’t what was wrong with the McCain/Palin ticket. She was merely the most obvious symptom of what was wrong. And while Wallace may think that she’s dishing on Palin and polishing her own reputation, she’s actually doing the opposite.
– Jay Bookman
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Lynn
October 7th, 2011
10:12 am
@ Bill Orvis White:
“HERE’S A FACT: SHE’S MORE QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT THAN HUSSEIN OBAMA! GET OVER IT!”
That’s not a fact. That is an opinion. Don’t expect people to take your comments seriously if you can’t tell the difference. Also, quit yelling (that’s what you are doing when you put comments in all caps). It’s rude.
Lin in Cobb
October 7th, 2011
10:13 am
The choice of Palin was pandering at its best. The GOP was hopeful that if there was an attractive woman on the ticket who appeared to be politically successful, (please note appeared to be politically successful), then the female vote, especially the party crossover female vote could be had. In other words the GOP was counting on the female voters not to use their heads when voting. The choice of Palin would not hurt McCain if they failed because he was never going to run for POTUS again and McCain knew that. I often wonder if McCain made the Palin choice or if it was a committee decision.
Adam
October 7th, 2011
10:14 am
Peadawg: I agree this should be a priority. Can we get a commitment from Republicans that they won’t block an appointment to the position if Eric Holder does resign? I’m not real interested in vacating a DOJ position entirely.
RB from Gwinnett
October 7th, 2011
10:18 am
“You are a silly water carrier for the rich who wouldn’t give you the time of the day! They laugh at your blind allegiance and you get nothing for it, those club doors are forever out of your reach. I’m fine, if I had millions and I know people that do, paying more wouldn’t faze me…”
Blah, Blah, Blah, Mick. I’ve decided you have the money, so you need to start paying $20,000 per year more in taxes. Pay up!!
Penny
October 7th, 2011
10:19 am
The Obama administration passed another fiscal milestone this week, according to new data released by the Trea Dept. As of Oct. 3, the total national debt was $14,837,099,271,196.71—up about $44.8 billion from Sept. 30. In the less-than-three-years Obama has been in office, the federal debt has increased by $4.212 trillion–more than the total national debt of about $4.1672 trillion accumulated by all 41 U.S. presidents from George Washington through George H.W. Bush combined.
Adam
October 7th, 2011
10:20 am
RB: I’ve decided you have the money, so you need to start paying $20,000 per year more in taxes. Pay up!!
I had no idea you were the one who made tax laws!
Peadawg
October 7th, 2011
10:23 am
” Can we get a commitment from Republicans that they won’t block an appointment to the position if Eric Holder does resign?”
If Obama nominates a good candidate then there shouldn’t be anything to worry about. I’ll hold that judgement if/until it comes to that.
Peter
October 7th, 2011
10:24 am
Penny …. wow ……..Now how much of that is because the (2) Bush Wars finally got put in the national debt ?
RB from Gwinnett
October 7th, 2011
10:26 am
“They laugh at your blind allegiance and you get nothing for it,”
BTW, tool, I’m not asking for anything from them, but it’s pretty clear that’s what your objective is. You’re so dang envious of what they have you’ve just GOT to have their money/stuff/something or you’re going to have the government steal it for you. Congrats on all the cash you’ll get from Steve Jobs estate to spend on crap you wouldn’t pay for yourself, BTW. You’ve been demanding more money from rich people for months and now you’re going to get half of his. Pathetic…
For Real
October 7th, 2011
10:29 am
Penny: The total debt is $14,837,099,271,196.71 and the debt has increased by $4.1672 trillion. So where did the $10.6 trillion dollars in debt come from?
Joe Mama
October 7th, 2011
10:30 am
Mr. White — “9-9-9 NOW!”
Nein, nein, nein, NO.
“Why is that folk like Liberal Jay keep picking on people like Governor Palin? If “reporters” like Jay went to and fully understood the documentary “The Undefeated,” we would not see this ridiculous hypocristy.”
So did they get the 1000 viewers in Kennesaw an entire week that the producers said would make the film a “success” here? Or did they fail to reach that notable milestone?
“The answer: The honorable Governor Sarah Palin is a conservative, pure and simple. HERE’S A FACT: SHE’S MORE QUALIFIED TO BE PRESIDENT THAN HUSSEIN OBAMA! GET OVER IT!”
Here’s a fact. He’s President. She’s not and will never be. Get over it yourself.
“Where is Jay on the Bill Ayres/Rev. Wright and assorted terrorist yippie connection to this installed president? I never see a word here about how Hussein Obama pals with Marxist terrorists.”
I think you can get all of that you want on Rense, Carnicom and Little Green Footballs.
“P.S. VOTE HERMAN AND VOTE HERMAN OFTEN!”
This is called voter fraud. A conservative is telling you to engage in it. Wonder where the Republicans are when one of their own pulls this kind of crap?
“Get off yer duffs and counter-protests these yippies at their occupy events! Annoy the media, send yer checks to Herman!”
Herman Cain will not win the nomination, let alone be elected.
Adam
October 7th, 2011
10:30 am
Peadawg: If Obama nominates a good candidate then there shouldn’t be anything to worry about.
I should have specified. Can we get a commitment that they won’t block it from EVEN BEING DISCUSSED.
Butch Cassidy
October 7th, 2011
10:31 am
RB from Gwinnet – ” Most of the conservatives I know voted for Palin when they cast their ballot, not McCain.”
And yet they STILL lost to Obama. Are these bragging rights or are you championing the losers?
Gordon
October 7th, 2011
10:31 am
Mick @10:07,
It worth a lot, and he deserves credit for that.
Adam
October 7th, 2011
10:33 am
RB: “I don’t ASK to be given roads to drive on, regulations and taxes that make sure my car’s gas tank doesn’t blow out, food safety, clean air and water, a court system, etc… (but I take from these things anyway)”
spongekill
October 7th, 2011
10:34 am
@Stonethrower “I’m still unsure why she was selected in the first place. Would someone please enlighten me?”
Republican voters need folksy charm and people that fit into their own narrow perception of the world – anything else is confusing and scary to them. Palin was picked for campaign reasons, not because anybody in the GOP actually believed she had any merit as a politician.. they simply knew how eagerly their foolish supporters would flock to her easy answers and boneheaded jingoism.
Peter
October 7th, 2011
10:34 am
Honestly Butch Cassidy…..I really think America felt so betrayed by the Bush administration, really almost anyone the Democrat’s ran could have won.
I will have to say Obama was super intelligent how he went about it though, using Face Book, and the other means to raise money and create awareness…as compared to McCain, who appeared both silly for adding Palin, and being too old for the job.
dinkdunk
October 7th, 2011
10:48 am
Fiction.
Bella
October 7th, 2011
10:50 am
The obsession with Sarah Palin is from the left, the Republicans could care less. The dynamics of her family and her lack of knowledge of anything intellectual, business savy or political is the spitting image of a Democrat. McCain was just pandering for the female and stupid vote, but of course we all know where they went!
Brad
October 7th, 2011
10:51 am
It seems that when you become a liberal, you go brain dead. Your integrity goes away and all you can do is blame others [mostly Republicans] for all of yor problems. Just like the :empty suit” in the White House who runs up the huge debt and complains that the Republicans don`t want to bail him out of his incompetence.. What a leader!!!
Don't Forget
October 7th, 2011
10:55 am
Gordon, IMO, the biggest contributor to the deficit IS the recession. If it isn’t, how do you explain the huge increase? I would agree that Obama should have at least commented/made recommendations regarding the debt commission but if that is “spectacular failure” in leadership, what would you call the fact that the senate r’s defeated the congressional committee Obama originally proposed?
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/01/26/83065/senate-rejects-plan-to-create.html
Isn’t that a spectacular failure of republican leadership?
As for the entitlement program, I assume you mean health care reform. See CBO estimate. If you completely disregard their estimates, there is no way to the cost of ANY legislation.
His budget? Again what was so “spectacularly bad” that led to it’s rejection?
Wildly erratic on tax increases? He’s said all along the Bush tax cuts needed to go it was just a matter of when. How is that erratic?
Waivers for health care reform? Those are meant to minimize problems/disruptions in the implementation. Exactly how is that something bad? And I don’t know where you got the idea that the president should be involved in the details of legislation. Is the congress just a rubber stamp for the president’s ideas?
I have some problems with the president’s leadership at times myself but it has much more to do with posture than policy. Americans want a president who will stand up for himself (and thereby his supporters). He’s lost a lot of respect from both opponents and supporters because he wouldn’t fight back. He was ready for the job but not the fight.
Truth
October 7th, 2011
10:55 am
If McCain/Palin had won. We would not have Obamacare for starters!
Mirror Mirror On The Wall
October 7th, 2011
10:58 am
Just look at the Wall Street protesters and you can tell where our country is headed. These brainless wannabes are actually allowed to vote? Liberals can win elections and ruin the country at the same time which is powerful stuff, but they will never get to the top of the food chain The sad thing is that as much the libs want to stick it to the conservatives and the wealthy of this country they will always be at the bottom of the heap. Libs – try looking in the mirror to find your own worst enemy!
Truth
October 7th, 2011
10:58 am
How can the current President lay all the blame on passing his jobs bill on the Republicans when the Presidency and both Houses of Congress were under Democratic control for 2 years?
Remember how they passed Obamacare at midnight on a Sunday evening with barely enough votes and they controlled the Presidency & both Houses of Congress.
Common Sense?
October 7th, 2011
10:59 am
I am overcome by fright & fear that this country could actually fall into the hands (by default) of a person who is completely cluless of why she exist!! I still respect John McCain just because he came real close to “giving his all” on the battlefield in Viet Nam so I consider him a brother in arms from a fellow Viet Nam and retired vet. Still can’t get it through my mind that he could be influenced by who ever it was to put her on the ticket…I think Ronald Regan would have risen from his grave!!
RGB
October 7th, 2011
11:01 am
That conservative women and minorities exist burns the soul of every liberal journalist.
Jay Bookman is no exception.
A randomly selected individual from the Atlanta Metro phone book would exhibit a better performance than our current president.
Steve From Dalton
October 7th, 2011
11:01 am
McCain ran one of the worst campaigns in history. He was more intrested in being loved by the media. The VP is usually given to someone at the end of their time in public service-not the start of it (HHH, Agnew, Rockefeller, Ford, Mondale, Bush, Quayle, Gore, etc.)
Truth
October 7th, 2011
11:02 am
Please enlightmenten me on the qualifications Mr. Obama had to be President?
Interesting how Palin is an idiot on foreign policy but Mr. Obama is great. What experience did he have with foreign policy prior to becoming President?
I just think people need to be fair when comparing candidates. Go Herman Cain.
Mama Says
October 7th, 2011
11:02 am
Does anyone realize that the protesters are not upset b/c the banks got a bailout but rather b/c they didn’t.
In other words greed is bad unless you are the greedy one
Herman was right.—– where is the racist labeling now libs ? The protesters were on TV (fox news) last night calling an old man who told them to get a job, a jew. They were yelling at him telling him that he had all the money. No lib outrage ?
hummm wonder if it’s b/c the unions are involved in the protest ?
out of the blue
October 7th, 2011
11:03 am
Peter @ 9:31 Granny 9:31
This may explain what you’re referring to…..
http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/clarence-thomas-forgot-20-years-disclosure-
Truth
October 7th, 2011
11:03 am
Mama:
The protests are all about the Unions. Wonder if any of the protesters are being paid by the Unions? Answer, Absolutely they are being paid.
Joe Mama
October 7th, 2011
11:03 am
Common Sense — “I still respect John McCain just because he came real close to “giving his all” on the battlefield in Viet Nam so I consider him a brother in arms from a fellow Viet Nam and retired vet.”
I also have a great deal of respect for McCain’s service, and I supported him in 2000. However, I did some looking into his voting record and found that he’s not at all supportive of veterans’ issues and has voted against a lot of measures what would have helped vets out. So as an Army vet, I respect McCain and his military service, but I can’t support him or vote for him.
There’s one Arizona veteran that I respect the hell out of, though, and that’s Pat Tillman. I’ve donated regularly to his foundation since it was set up.
out of the blue
October 7th, 2011
11:04 am
Granny, correction your 9:29
Corey
October 7th, 2011
11:07 am
Face it people, Mr. McCain simply wanted a hot fox that he could have access to anytime he wanted. . What else is one to make of his selection?
RB from Gwinnett
October 7th, 2011
11:15 am
“RB: “I don’t ASK to be given roads to drive on, regulations and taxes that make sure my car’s gas tank doesn’t blow out, food safety, clean air and water, a court system, etc… (but I take from these things anyway)””
That ^^^^^^^^^ remains one of the dumbest and most shallow excuses from the left on why they feel entitled to continually take more and more money from people. Just plain stupid. If you can’t think any deeper than that, Adam, stay in the shallow end. Maybe a Disney blog would be more suited for you.
ken
October 7th, 2011
11:20 am
And we got joe instead.
RB from Gwinnett
October 7th, 2011
11:23 am
“I had no idea you were the one who made tax laws!”
Hey, if Mick can decide all rich people can afford to pay more taxes without knowing anything about them, why can’t I do the same for Mick? It makes every bit as much sense.
Just for kicks, what do you suppose a person who makes a million dollars a year and has their tax bill, already at $350,000, go up by another $50,000 going to do to offset that $50,000 loss in income?
GM
October 7th, 2011
11:25 am
Sara gets the con artist of the decade award, the women has not held office in over 2 years and has raked in millions off these low self esteem, tea party idiots.
Why run for office when you can make attacks on the President of the United States, but to much of a idiot to have any good ideas on your own, make hate speeches toward the President, get the red necks thinking you are one of them, when you have banked in over 25 million while some of these idiots tea party people are living in trailors and unemployed but still buying your books and paying for your appearence.
Oh and lets not forgot she pretends she hates blacks but slept with Glen Rice the basket ball star, she is a real piece of work.
Adam
October 7th, 2011
11:31 am
Truth: We would not have Obamacare for starters!
I know! I really wish they would repeal that so I could get thrown off my insurance or denied care for no reason!
Corey
October 7th, 2011
11:32 am
@Arelius 9:17 He probably will travel the world over making speeches and amass more wealth than than Mr. Clinton did from making speeches, being that he is much admired around the world which drives our usual local Obama haters bat sh@#.
Sister Sarah
October 7th, 2011
11:33 am
@Lin in Cobb
Standing ovation! Kudos! You have won……A NEW CAR!!!
I love smart people who can rummage through all the cruft and just deliver the TRUTH, straight with no chaser.
Adam
October 7th, 2011
11:34 am
RB: Just for kicks, what do you suppose a person who makes a million dollars a year and has their tax bill, already at $350,000, go up by another $50,000 going to do to offset that $50,000 loss in income?
There is no need to offset it. That’s the point. He’s certainly not going to cut his pay to avoid those taxes. He’s also not going to cut a job because his own personal pay is affected when his profits are not and he still needs someone working that job.
Adam
October 7th, 2011
11:35 am
RB: When Clinton raised taxes on the top earners, did that cause them to cut jobs in droves?
Mick
October 7th, 2011
11:48 am
rb
Don’t lecture me you pathetic corporate lackey. You are so busy worrying about the wealthy and their money, they can afford to pay more. You are the one with wealth envy, its so bad that your lowly wage earning time is spent defending them, imagine that. Now , that is truly sad..
WOODSTOCK MIKE
October 7th, 2011
11:49 am
Let me guess, you liberals are so impressed by Joe Biden? LOL!!
Joe Biden is going down as the most meaningless VP in the history of our country. Obama even wishes Joe wouldn’t open his mouth.
Mick
October 7th, 2011
11:53 am
I’ll take joe over a war mongering, war criminal veep seven days a week…
Paulo977
October 7th, 2011
11:56 am
USinUK
October 7th, 2011
8:53 am
Gordon – wouldn’t dream of speaking for anyone else, but I enjoy EVERY DAY that a Republican isn’t in the White House.
May it last and last and last!!!
Filter
October 7th, 2011
12:11 pm
“Truth”
Your comment: Please enlightmenten me on the qualifications Mr. Obama had to be President?
Interesting how Palin is an idiot on foreign policy but Mr. Obama is great. What experience did he have with foreign policy prior to becoming President?
I just think people need to be fair when comparing candidates. Go Herman Cain.
That is the funniest damn thing I have seen in a long time. A comment talking about Presidential qualification, of the lack thereof, ending with the statement Go Herman Go.
Classic.
Joe Mama
October 7th, 2011
12:13 pm
Mick — “I’ll take joe over a war mongering, war criminal veep seven days a week…”
This.
Needamyer
October 7th, 2011
12:22 pm
You’re all WORTHLESS and WEAK. Now, drop and GIVE ME 20 !!!
Gordon
October 7th, 2011
12:24 pm
Don’t Forget,
The biggest contributer to the debt/deficit both now and going forward is entitlements. Just look at the budget. Medicare, Social Security, and interest are 3 of the 4 biggest budget items. The unfunded liability (difference between what we expect to take in versus expect to spend in the future) of Medicare alone is in the tens of trillions of dollars. It MUST be reformed, no matter what you do with taxes. The economic downturn is a major problem, but even it pales in comparison to entitlements.
Joe Mama
October 7th, 2011
12:25 pm
Oh, look who’s back.
Gordon
October 7th, 2011
12:42 pm
Don’t Forget@10:55,
“As for the entitlement program, I assume you mean health care reform. See CBO estimate. If you completely disregard their estimates, there is no way to the cost of ANY legislation.”
The CBO makes projections based on the assumptions given to it. They don’t offer their opinion, they crunch the numbers. No one seriously believes that Obamacare will save money anymore. Further, when Medicare was introduced it was supposed to be funded. See my above post for how that worked out.
“His budget? Again what was so “spectacularly bad” that led to it’s rejection?”
I guess you need to ask the 97 mostly Democratic senators that rejected it.
“Wildly erratic on tax increases? He’s said all along the Bush tax cuts needed to go it was just a matter of when. How is that erratic?”
No, about this time last year he said taxes should not be raised on anyone during a recession. He caught h*** from the left over it. He just recently retreated to the position of raising taxes even more than before. I’m not arguing for or against his positions on this, I’m just saying he has changed them fairly widely and often. I don’t like the Republicans “no taxes on anything at all costs” position, but at least they have been consistent.
“Waivers for health care reform? Those are meant to minimize problems/disruptions in the implementation. Exactly how is that something bad?”
Why is it good for some and not for all? After all the posturing, why should those politically connected (e.g. unions) get exemptions? Can’t believe you would defend this.
“And I don’t know where you got the idea that the president should be involved in the details of legislation. Is the congress just a rubber stamp for the president’s ideas?”
Leaders lead. Do you think Steve Jobs just said “Go build something that people can use to play their music”, or was heavily involved in the details that went into producing the iPod? Obama pontificates, then moves on. He does not lead. He can’t.
Paddy O
October 7th, 2011
12:56 pm
this is why McCain lost – the folks running the campaign thought they were in charge, and apparently not in sync with the candidate.
ken
October 7th, 2011
1:07 pm
Sara has honesty , integrity and common sense. Subjects not taught at Harvard.
Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil
October 7th, 2011
1:09 pm
THAT IS A SCARY THOUGHT – “if they were to win, it would be appropriate for her to be sworn in.”
THANK GOD THEY DID NOT.
Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil
October 7th, 2011
1:09 pm
@ken October 7th, 2011 1:07 pm
What rock have you been living under?
Tell the Truth and Shame the Devil
October 7th, 2011
1:12 pm
And how exactly would the McCain people explain that to the American public?
They say – “WE F**KED UP!!!
skadi
October 7th, 2011
1:27 pm
She was picked because she was “hot”. A good marketing strategy. It really is that simple. Just like which video game or car ad is more appealing. Because that’s who we are as a country.
I know, disappointing and not what we were led to believe in grade school.
@@
October 7th, 2011
1:43 pm
I agree she was picked for her hotness. I’m straight but would still consider doing her.
James
October 7th, 2011
1:45 pm
What does McCain/Palin have to do with anything now Bookman? You just can’t let up on the Republicans can you?
@@
October 7th, 2011
1:53 pm
Typical liberal screed.
Lyd
October 7th, 2011
2:24 pm
I see the AJC has lowered its subscription rate for the paper again. When will they realize that if they would just get rid of the left wing loons on their staff and stop the bias, the circulation will increase so they can quit cutting the rate?
LydiasDad
October 7th, 2011
2:25 pm
I’d like to see @@ and Sarah Palin. Awesome.
Tom(Independent)
October 7th, 2011
2:32 pm
Ok, I get it. Tell me what Sarah Palin could have done that would have been worst than what VP Joe Biden has done. Don’t think I have ever heard Sarah use curse words, can’t say that that about the VP? I am not a fan of hers but you people as usual, are being unresonable but that is what libs do, I guess.
GT
October 7th, 2011
2:36 pm
There is a world out there that is a cheap knock off to reality. It is a place where fat people look sexy like Wynette Judd, Rush Limbaugh has intellect, and tacky has class. There is a false pride that this was the stuff that made America great. Nope America was made great by intellect which nothing in this land of knock off reality understands. The kind that could write a lasting constitution like our forefathers that withstood the growing pains of a young nation. The knock off world is on borrowed time, the order of a natural world won’t allow a substitution of reality.
@@
October 7th, 2011
2:41 pm
LydiasDad – do you mean you’d like to see @@ “in” Sarah Palin or “on” Sarah Palin. Agree that both would be awesome.
Robert from Philadelphia
October 7th, 2011
3:26 pm
Well, I guess we should be grateful to Nicole Wallace and the rest of the GOP power brokers to know that they are watching the country’s back after they cynically brought us to the brink of global disaster. Why admit it now? Do they think that they will regain some of the respect they so deservedly lost? They don’t care one iota about this country, only their own Power and Greed. Oh yeah, thanks for putting us into a great recession, and thanks again for keeping us there.
Thank God McCain lost and took that other narcisist with him. They are both no good.
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Rufus
October 7th, 2011
3:59 pm
Jay, I gather that you enjoy beating dead horses.
atljack
October 7th, 2011
4:34 pm
Senior campaign strategists went to McCain and put it simply… he was going to lose if he chose anyone but Palin… they told him he would most likely lose even if he chose Palin but they thought Palin MIGHT siphon some angry Hillary voters and would help get out the vote of the far right (who love draft dodgers like Cheney, Rush, et. al but never liked a war hero like McCain).
So without any vetting at all, McCain chose Palin.
Palin, who went to THREE different community colleges, was a failed beauty pageant babe and a poor sports reporter, managed to get elected to mayor of a town 1/10th the size of Roswell, Ga and then elected Governor of a state with 1/5 the population of metro Atlanta did indeed make the far right happy with her “you betchas’ and other folksy terms.
The McCain camp did not let Palin do interviews for two months because they found out she knew NOTHING about government, especially foreign policy (she did not know why Korea was divided into north and south and did not really know what the Korean War was about. (in this she shares the same knowledge as most of her supporters)
MrLiberty
October 7th, 2011
4:36 pm
If those two had won, things would probably be just about the same. There was really no difference between Bush, Obama, McCain, Palin. Just as now there is no real difference between Obama and every other republican besides Ron Paul. Fundamentally they are all big government, war mongering, status quo, Federal Reserve supporting, politicians.
Ron Paul 2012. Restore America.
Rick B
October 7th, 2011
5:51 pm
Look. Palin had only one reason to be on the ticket in the first place. The McCain camp knew that they were going to lose if the social conservatives didn’t come out to vote and they weren’t going to vote for McCain. That was a set up to make the Goldwater disaster of 1964 look good. If it happened the down ballot results nationwide would have destroyed the Republican Party. It would have been reverse coattails.
Palin on the ticket brought the Christian Right out to vote. It’s that simple. It kept the loss at the Presidential level from destroying the entire Republican Party. The chance that McCain would win in 2008 was about the same as the “approaching zero” figure we were taught in introductory calculus. It’s not zero but it’s not far enough away to be considered significant as a non-zero number. McCain was NOT going to win. Palin just protected the Republican Party across the nation from the worst down ballot results of that loss.
I’m glad to know that someone in that crew was actually thinking of how to deal with the act of god that would have been required for McCain to win the election.
Joe the Pimpernel
October 7th, 2011
8:42 pm
It’s really quite simple; there is a ruling class in America, and Sarah Palin is not a member of that country club.
The Republicrats and Demicans are first and foremost about consolidating power to themselves.
Anybody who might interfere with that must be destroyed.
Rogue!
October 8th, 2011
2:50 am
Sarah’s a rogue–a wild one! Wild crazy sex, snorting coke on an oil drum!! Yeah baby—my kind of woman!!!
Samantha
October 8th, 2011
11:34 am
I certainly believe that was possible. To the poster who said others in the McCain camp refuted it, your argument is weak. Of course the official line is that there was no problem with Palin and all is well. But Wallace is not the ONLY senior person or insider to come out of that debacle with this portrayal of Palin. Are they all lying?
For Wallace to bring up this possibility, only one method seems likely: Other than outright lawbreaking, any politician can be unqualified to serve if they are mentally unfit. Under those circumstances, they had the ability to deny her. And if there were “discussions” of that, then that means they have proof in their hands, hard proof, that Palin was mentally and emotionally unstable, and unfit to be sworn in. That proof is now irrelevant, in their minds, because of the “arc” the campaign took (meaning, it became obvious at some point McCain would lose the election), but not irrelevant to me. I think the American People have a right to see what came close to the white house.
Paddy O
October 8th, 2011
9:37 pm
Pathetic that a supposed “journalist” would even reference this tripe. Bias is difficult to evade when you’ve embraced it this hard. Of course, the AJC has lost a lot subsriptions. wonder why. hmmm.