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October 28, 2008 07:33 AM UTC

The GOP Blame Game

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  • by: Go Blue

(A rapidly-developing “meltdown” narrative – promoted by Colorado Pols)

As ABC reports, Rift Cracks ‘Demoralized’ McCain Campaign

The McCain campaign is definitely demoralized right now. The blame game has begun.

There is no question that there is a rift between Sarah Palin’s camp and that of John McCain inside the Republican campaign, sources tell ABC News.

And you are seeing people within the McCain campaign starting to look to the future.

Not only Palin, but many of the McCain staffers, as well, are circulating their resumes and pointing the finger.

Whenever people in the campaign are starting to worry more about their own reputations rather than whether they’re going to win in seven days, there is a significant problem.

And you know there are major problems with a campaign when it actually splits up into two camps that compete rather than work together.

But some McCain camp insiders tell ABC News they simply couldn’t put Palin out in front of the media any more than they did because she wasn’t ready.

The Palin camp is fighting back, arguing that if the McCain campaign had just let Sarah Palin be Sarah Palin, she would have done just fine on her own.

The Alaska governor herself has been pushing out on her own against McCain’s handlers.

I’ve even been hearing that Romney’s people are pushing to divide the two so after November 5th Mittens can step into fill the void.

Former Mitt Romney presidential campaign staffers, some of whom are currently working for Sen. John McCain and Gov. Sarah Palin’s bid for the White House, have been involved in spreading anti-Palin spin to reporters, seeking to diminish her standing after the election. “Sarah Palin is a lightweight, she won’t be the first, not even the third, person people will think of when it comes to 2012,” says one former Romney aide, now working for McCain-Palin. “The only serious candidate ready to challenge to lead the Republican Party is Mitt Romney. He’s in charge on November 5th.”

With friends like these who needs enemies.  

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48 thoughts on “The GOP Blame Game”

  1. about Palin getting kicked to the curb and Mittens emerging as the GOP leader after the election, positioning himself for 2012.

    Don’t I get a lollipop or something ?

    1. I see Palin being thrown to the curb after the election

      and I don’t see her as any sort of equal to Romney and Huckabee.  Huckabee is way, way too far right to be electable in this climate (at least anymore) .  I think Romney will emerge as the defacto leader of the party.

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      by: Fidel’s dirt nap @ Sun Oct 26, 2008 at 20:23:37 PM MDT

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      Anyway, we’ll see.

      1. That quote was from Romney’s people. They’ve been leaking info from inside the McCain campaign, supposedly trying to sabotage it.

        Do you think that when it comes time for the GOP 2012 convention that they’re going to forget that Romney loyalists took an active role in trying to destroy McCain’s candidacy?

        I do agree that Romney will be the front-runner should McCain lose, but crap like this isn’t helping his cause.

        1. but it looks like the jockeying for 2012 has begun.  The vultures are picking up the scraps of a failed campaign IMHO.

          When it comes time for the GOP 2012 convention McCain or Palin won’t be in any position to do anything about what Romney is doing now.  McCain will be 76 and Palin will still be in Alaska wondering WTF happened to her.  It’s a power struggle – break out the popcorn !  

          1. hate McCain so much that they might be willing to forgive Romney’s alleged destruction of McCain’s campaign.

            But I thought that the GOP was going to have to come towards the middle in order to win? Does that mean Romney will have to flip-flop yet again on every social issue?

            Either way you slice it, the GOP has a tough road ahead.

            3. It’s not like on November 5th that anybody is going to reference some comments made by a Romney person as the one reason why McCain lost.

              The comments are a sign of frustration from a less-then-well-run campaign of McCain, not the cause of it.

        2. wasn’t crazy about McCain in the first place.  The funny thing is we Dems feared McCain most because of his maverick image, love affair with the media and long standing appeal to indies and even many Dems. He threw all that away.

          If McCain had done what you’re supposed to do, go right (left for Dems) to get the nomination with a return toward the center for the general, he would have been almost unbeatable against either Obama or HRC.  

          The base would have voted for him over either, not as energized as they are by Palin but energized enough by opposition to either the “other”(code for Black) Obama or the hated HRC.  The majority of indies would have stayed with McCain along with a significant number of Dems against either Dem.

          If Obama wins, it will be equal parts great time for Dems, great Obama campaign and incredible McCain ineptitude. Mittens will be fine with the new GOP that will emerge in the face of the defeat(knock wood) and Palin will be an historic footnote with no political future on the national level though she may become a religious right celeb.

    3. Watch out for the Bradley effect, which may be overwhelmed by the Marxist effect.

      Biden now says tax increases for anyone making over $150k. That should swing some votes McCain’s way.

      1. McCain is playing catch up in nearly every swing state, and he’s running out of both time and money.

        Though I do agree that everyone has suddenly started talking like it’s 11/5 about a week too soon.

      2. Are dumb enough to throw rocks in a glass house? Palin is the only socialist running for the White House.

        For her part, Sarah Palin, who has lately taken to calling Obama “Barack the Wealth Spreader,” seems to be something of a suspect character herself. She is, at the very least, a fellow-traveller of what might be called socialism with an Alaskan face. The state that she governs has no income or sales tax. Instead, it imposes huge levies on the oil companies that lease its oil fields. The proceeds finance the government’s activities and enable it to issue a four-figure annual check to every man, woman, and child in the state. One of the reasons Palin has been a popular governor is that she added an extra twelve hundred dollars to this year’s check, bringing the per-person total to $3,269. A few weeks before she was nominated for Vice-President, she told a visiting journalist-Philip Gourevitch, of this magazine-that “we’re set up, unlike other states in the union, where it’s collectively Alaskans own the resources. So we share in the wealth when the development of these resources occurs.” Perhaps there is some meaningful distinction between spreading the wealth and sharing it (“collectively,” no less), but finding it would require the analytic skills of Karl the Marxist.

        She’s a Pinko Commie!  

  2. That would be a gift for Democrats. But if Romney’s people are worried about it, then there must be numbers showing that she would do well in a GOP primary.  

    1. Best odds of being the next candidate – Sarah Palin. She has really good numbers and incredible enthusiasm.

      Only Republican who would have a chance in ’12 – Mike Huckabee.

      The Rudy Guiliani of the next campaign – Mitt Romney. He’ll be the “front runner” until they start voting.

      1. 8-).  Just kidding.  I say none of the above.  Nobody is taking Palin seriously in the R machine, Romney I totally agree with you and Huckabee is too much a bumbling Howard Dean of the right to make it through a long election.  Whoever comes out will come out of nowhere over the next 2-3 years to take it up.

    2. …they will split the wing nut vote (which is about 60% of the GOP primary voters) in half, allowing Mittens to run as moderate-conservative and win with 40% of the party.

        Can anyone think of any other propsects for the GOP nomination in ’12?  (It’s probably too soon for Jeb Bush to be planning a restoration of the House of Bush.)

        Maybe if we’re lucky, Newt Gingrich will run.

          1. IIRC, he is a Rhodes Scholar, and wasn’t he president of a university in his 30’s ?  Now he’s governor at 41.

            His career trajectory is Obamanesque.  Is that a word ?  

            2. Was appointed the LA secretary of health at like 25, got a major position in the Bush administration at 30-ish.  Ran for governor in 2003 and barely lost.

              When he was elected in 2007 he was 36

              1. with Roman style pillars.  See DNC speech ; )

                Anyway, I think Haners is right on to mention Jindal.  Romney/Jindal 2012 –  you heard it here first.

                1. I’m the one that mentioned Jindal, not Haners.

                  Now you’ve made me cry. Sniff. Sniff.

                  Can anyone think of any other propsects for the GOP nomination in ’12?  (It’s probably too soon for Jeb Bush to be planning a restoration of the House of Bush.)

                   Maybe if we’re lucky, Newt Gingrich will run.

                  by: One Queer Dude @ Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 12:01:33 PM MDT

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                  by: you @ soon

                  Bobby Jindal from Louisiana.

                  He’s one of the few bright spots for the Republicans and a rising star.  

                  by: Middle of the Road @ Tue Oct 28, 2008 at 12:33:29 PM MDT

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                    1. I obviously suffer from very low self esteem and require constant reassurance. 🙂

                2.    You’re overlooking the sectarian fanaticism of the modern GOP.  

                    Do you really think the evangelical christian conservatives will tolerate a LDSer and Hindu turned Roman Catholic who performs exocisms?

                  1. They seem to me like the two best options.  They can “return to their conservative roots” and go with Huckabee or Palin at their own peril.

                    Evangelical Christian conservatives will have no small part in bringing us President Obama.  The Republican party will serve itself well to remember that – those who make better decisions should be making those decisions next time.

            2. I think he’s a rising star. A meteor, actually.

              A meteor is heavenly material on its way down in flames, destined to crash and break up into tiny little bits. Awesome, but mostly harmless. 😉

              1. Meteoric rise to be ironic. Jindal has some problems of his own on the religion front. If I remember correctly, he, like Palin, thinks the earth is 6,000 years old or some such claptrap.

                I get the enthusiasm, he is young and smart, but he has the party of next in line to wade through, and right now Romney and maybe some others all looking at  their ticket and seeing their number up next.

        3. I mean, how can he be an American?

          Was he really born in this country?   Baton Rouge, I mean isn’t that effing French or something?

          And, he’s a Muslim, I mean a Hindu, this Catholic embracement don’t fool nobody, no sirreeeee.

          Although I wouldn’t want Jindal to run in 2012 because he is very competent, wouldn’t it be sweet?  Your choice, bigots, is between two brown men with at least one foreign born parent.  

  3. Yes a number of people have made mistakes. And there have been some major-league disasters from Bush to DeLay to our own lovable Wadhams. But you always have people that are stupid, that are greedy, that are a one-trick pony. We Dems have them too.

    I think the disaster is due to the philosophy of the GOP. And the philosophy is so bad for them, that even with perfect execution, it will still fail.

    And that’s why the GOP is in a world of hurt. Because it’s easy to replace people. It’s much more difficult to change the philosophical basis of a group.

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