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The McCain-Palin Blame Game

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Here's a little flashback from about a week and a half ago.

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As the McCain-Palin ticket heads for what looks like a blow-out defeat of historic proportions - the polling now shows even Republicans defecting from the GOP ticket and thus a double-digit lead for Barack Obama and huge, unprecedented early voting numbers - here is a prediction: the biggest fireworks of this campaign are going to come after the election.

And the two sides going after each other will be John McCain and his (few remaining) supporters, especially his alter ego/surrogate son/ Chief of Staff Mark Salter - versus Sarah Palin and her husband and any GOP leaders who remain allied with her in hopes of a 2012 candidacy.

At the heart of this conflict will be The Blame Game - who will get tarred with running one of the worst campaigns in modern political history.

In the case of this impending GOP Debacle on November 4th, several factors come into play:

• McCain will still be a Senator. He will want to resuscitate his reputation inside the Beltway. He will have to grovel to the very media types he has recently snubbed - like Time’s Joe Klein and MSNBC’s Chris Mathews - and he will throw Sarah Palin to the wolves and cast all the blame on her - and some on Bush, too.

• His private internal campaign polls now show the same thing that the NBC/WSJ poll showed two days ago: Palin has hurt the GOP ticket even more than Bush has - a remarkable achievement.

• Yes, she solidified and electrified a slice of the GOP Right, but she cost him invaluable independents, moderates and conservative Democrats. In other words, she lost McCain more votes than she brought to his ticket.

• McCain already knows he made a monumental mistake in picking her. And he must be embarrassed over this decision. But he has to soldier on through November 4th - and seem as if he is proud of her and his decision to pick her.

• NBC’s Chuck Todd was at the NBC interview yesterday in Dayton conducted by Brian Williams where McCain and Palin sat side by side - and then NBC was allowed a few minutes alone with just the Alaskan Governor. Todd felt “tension” between the two candidates - as if the Blame Game had already begun in private.

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5 comments // The McCain-Palin Blame Game

  • DramaQT
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      DramaQT  
    • Finally, the truth came out about Palin & McCain. I am so proud President Elect Barack Obama led a clean campaign. By his clear intellect & with God's help, the people could clearly see what was going on, and thus casted our votes wisely! Reading reports on Palin's camp going back and forth with McCain's camp is really quite sad. We are two steps from our national currency changing from the dollar to the yuan. Now while they turn on each other, the adults must go to work fix a broken country.

    • 3 years ago
  • GatorMonkey
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      GatorMonkey  
    • To be honest, I think McCain showed some bad sides of himself during the campaign and could have definitely exuded better leadership skills.

      But the "palin" truth is that woman invoked a lot of unnecessary hate in people. She was ignorant, close minded and... ok... seriously... who burns books - this isn't medieval times - and if it was she'd still be locked up in front of her big black kettle.

      While I can walk away from this election saying I would never have voted for McCain in the first place and I disagreed with almost all of his platforms (if not all), I can say I still hold a semblence of respect for the man who has fought for the country and who has put in time and energy to learning the system. His speech at the end of his run was thoughtful, he praised his opponenet and even looked angrily out at the crowd as they insulted the President Elect, making them stop their ill advised and ill mannered response to the name Barack Obama.

      I have ABSOLUTELY no respect for a woman such as she. She is probably sitting on her Bear Couch in front of that strange crab coffee table piece mumbling about terrorists. I would not be surprised if she joined the AIP now and worked toward a succession. Of course all this about her is just my own hearsay and judgements - not fact.

    • 3 years ago
  • unashamed_muse
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      unashamed_muse  
    • McCain's choice of Palin was the nail in his coffin for me. I was on the fence until he picked her, then my decision was made easily.

      IMO She ruined his chances of winning. Great read!!

    • 3 years ago
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  
    • • Here is what will come out after Election Day:

      • McCain/Salter will savage Palin for excessive ego, ignorance, stupidity.

      • The $150,000 Nieman Marcus/Saks Fifth Avenue shopping spree will be just the tip of the Alaskan ice berg in their criticisms of Palin.

      • By the way, this shopping spree story coming just 13 days before Election Day is yet another sign of total political malpractice by the McCain-Palin-GOP heirarchy.

      • Can you imagine - in this devastated economy - what the average struggling housewife or working mother thinks when they read about $150,000 of clothes being lavished on Sarah Palin? How many real “hockey moms” or Walmart shoppers will spend that amount on clothes in their entire life? Talk about politically tone deaf!

      • This will all figure into the inevitable savaging of Sarah Palin. Plus other still-to-be-revealed items about her behind-the-scene behavior, demands, emotions, habits, children, disloyalty and God knows what else.

      • They will use the still-unresolved Troopergate and National Enquirer adultery stories against her by leaking out other things they have learned about her since they chose her for the Veep slot at the end of August.

      • You can bet that McCain and Salter, the vicious destroyers that they really are, are right now compiling a long list of grievances against her - all as part of affixing the blame on her for McCain’s crushing defeat.

      • They will leak tales of how ‘stupid’ they learned she was - and how ignorant of national and world affairs - which is why they could not risk allowing her to hold a full-scale press conference. ‘Inside’ stories of their disastrous prep sessions with her - for speeches and debates - will suddenly ‘find’ their way into big newspapers.

      • They are still steaming over her criticism of the McCain staff’s decision to pull out of Michigan and her critique of the ‘robo calls’ - even though she recorded the calls herself!

      • In McCain World, criticizing McCain and his decisions is not tolerated. Period. And those who dare to criticize are O-U-T!

      • Palin has a different agenda:

      • She has her eyes on the GOP Presidential nomination in 2012 - and she will have some hard right support behind her - at least until and unless she is seen as too damaged to make it.

      • Sarah Barracuda will go into full attack mode on November 5th.

      • She will leak out her criticisms of the way she way she was not allowed to campaign.

      • She will blame the by-then-discredited McCain Senior Staff for all the mistakes of the losing campaign.

      • She will appeal to the Hard Right by blasting McCain for not attacking Obama hard enough.

      • She will be trying to woo Rush and Hannity for her 2012 campaign.

      This post-election battle will be entertaining. But it is not the real battle to come within the GOP. That fight comes after this little entertaining diversion between Mccain and Palin is finished.

      McCain will be shunned forever within the GOP. They never liked him - and after he is routed, they won’t even pay attention to him. Payback can be tough, Johnny! All those years dumping on conservatives is about to catch up to you.

    • 3 years ago
  • judiestar
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      judiestar  
    • maasanova:

      Very wise words. In my mind, McCain has completely lost all of his immense respectability, and I know I'm not alone in that thought. Not only for choosing such a complete airhead, but for the nasty and unnecessary negative campaign. I doubt he would have won even if he had chosen a better veep. As for Palin, I still can't get over the fact that she is a real person and not the caricature (spelled wrong I'm sure) from SNL. Everything about her is a joke. I cant wait to catch up on all the fireworks, I'm sure it'll be very entertaining for years to come!.

    • 3 years ago
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