Saturday, November 08, 2008
The Palin Factor
The only person that made the McCain/Palin ticket palatable to me was, Sarah Palin.
Now after the election is over and the McCain side lost, everyone is piling-on Sarah Palin for the loss.
Not so fast there buckos! Sarah Palin was a breath of fresh air. Sarah Palin is a amazing example of an American woman. She was energetic, optimistic, tireless, and represented the best of what it is to be an American. When she says she serves the people, it’s from her heart not from the coaching of some campaign level advisor.
It’s embarrassing to think that Republicans from the McCain camp would turn on such a valuable asset to their ticket. According to Rasmussen, 69% of GOP Voters Say Palin Helped McCain. There’s more…
Ninety-one percent (91%) of Republicans have a favorable view of Palin, including 65% who say their view is Very Favorable. Only eight percent (8%) have an unfavorable view of her, including three percent (3%) Very Unfavorable.
The McCain camp just doesn’t seem to get it.
In Michelle Malkin article ”The Cowardly Criticism Of Sarah Palin” she covers all the sordid details from the McCain betrayal…
Rest assured: Their cowardly character assassination of Sarah Palin won’t be forgotten.
The finks turned to Newsweek and Fox News to spread petty rumors about Palin’s intellect and character.
The magazine peddled anecdotes from sources horrified that Palin greeted top advisers at her hotel room, gasp!, “wearing nothing but a towel” and “wet hair.”
Fox News reporter Carl Cameron breathlessly reported that his unnamed McCain sources told him Palin lacked “a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate” because, they claimed, she didn’t know which countries were parties to the North American Free Trade Agreement and “didn’t understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself.”
Let’s assume for a moment that the McCain rumormongers are telling the truth about Palin (and I don’t believe they are). Who would it damn more: Palin or McCain and his vetters, who greenlighted her for the vice presidential nomination? Don’t need a fancy Ivy League degree to figure that one out.
According to his post ”Palin and Africa, Etc.” Rich Lowry of National Review Online writes about her briefing…
I talked to Steve Biegun, the former Bush NSC aid who briefed Sarah Palin on foreign policy, and he considers the leaks against her on the international stuff “absurd.”
He says there’s no way she didn’t know Africa was a continent, and whoever is saying she didn’t must be distorting “a fumble of words.” He talked to her about all manner of issues relating to Africa, from failed states to the Sudan. She was aware from the beginning of the conflict in Darfur, which is followed closely in evangelical churches, and was aware of Clinton’s AIDS initiative. That basically makes it impossible that she thought all of Africa was a country.
On not knowing what countries are in NAFTA, Biegun was part of the conversation that led to that accusation and it convinces him “somebody is acting with a high degree of maliciousness.” He was briefing Palin before a Univision interview, and talking to her about trade issues. He rolled through NAFTA, CA, and the Colombia FTA. As he talked, people were coming in and out of the room, handing Palin things, etc. She was distracted from what Biegun was saying, and said, roughly, “Ok, who’s in NAFTA, what’s the deal with CA, what’s up the FTA?” her way, Biegun says, of saying “rack them and stack them,” begin again from the start. “Somebody is taking a conversation and twisting it maliciously,” he says.
As far as greeting advisors “wearing nothing but a towel” and “wet hair” Sarah Palin has denied that ever happened. Frankly with the number of family members she had travelling with her does that really meet the smell test?
Michelle Malkin goes on….
Hollywood savaged Palin. Journalists mocked her. Liberal blogs slimed her. Opponents cursed her, Photoshopped her, hacked her e-mail, hanged her in effigy, called her a bigot, Bible thumper and bimbo, and attacked her husband and children.
But nothing Palin endured during the election season compares to the treatment she’s receiving from these backstabbing blabbermouths who worked on the same campaign she poured herself into over the last three months.
I certainly agree, Where is John McCain’s apologies for his staffs behavior? I don’t hear it!
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