He got her into this mess; now he's got to get her out of it. That is, if he wants to show his honor.
Anonymous sources in the McCain-Palin campaign, which should give you pause, have made possibly slanderous, ugly statements about Mrs. Palin. This is the poorest form of post-election behavior and against all protocol and common courtesy.
I'm hoping Senator McCain will show his vice presidential pick the same courtesy he gave President Elect Obama in his concession speech. Moreover, a similar statement should come from Obama to counter the ridiculous over animation and racist slurs by his own people towards the rest of the country, including Joe the Plumber.
Enough. Enough. Enough.
It's over. Let's move on and leave Mrs. Palin alone. She did not lose the election for us; John McCain and his feckless, incoherent campaign lost it.
Thanks for the read.
Thursday, November 6, 2008
McCain needs to stand by Palin publicly
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Good for you, Andrea!
McCain showed a common pattern of Republicans and Libertarians in this Election campaign, namely inability to say NO! (and for that matter even to say YES!) as the Reader nutz2u2 summarized the situation in FPM after I'd being saying similar things with a few more words.
Had the McCain-Palin campaign gone mainly with Sarah, including summarizing for her Strategy, Psychology (especially finding similarities and differences between things and between ideas), Socioculture/history, Self-Defense, Individualism, Ethics, Religion), then they would probably have won. But I don't think that even their top Strategists, maybe borrowed from the Bush Administration but also some of its critics like Newt Gingrich, knew what most of those of those concepts are.
They were especially scared to death to use the "J-Word" (Jobs) unless it was buried deep inside the word "Taxes" which led many Democrats to suspect it because they attributed it to helping Big Corporations as opposed to everybody else.
Hopefully, we'll learn from this, though already Republicans and Libertarians are trying to organize "purified" new or old Parties based merely on "returning to the Founding Fathers" who also mysteriously avoided the "J-Word" and the role of women.
Osher Doctorow
Andrea, excellent post. We have yet to hear a vehement defense from John McCain. Some high level campaign staffers have gone public with some challenges to these anonymous cowards, but they're lukewarm at best.
Do you think it's possible that the low level McCain staff was infiltrated by an Obamabot or two? This type of behavior isn't usually exhibited by conservatives.
I smell a rat, a DemocRAT. I wrote a letter to Mike Duncan, RNC Chairman, which I posted at FPM. This has got to stop!
Thanks for the great column!
Pat Waske
Even people who aren't "engaged" with politics recognize that Senator McCain needs to step forward and stop this back biting.
Our party must move forward and allow the rising stars to, well...RISE.
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