McCain aide: Sarah Palin is a "diva"

[endthewar]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/25/mccain-aide-palin-going-rogue/

Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin “going rogue” recently, while a Palin associate says she is simply trying to “bust free” of what she believes was a mishandled roll-out that damaged her.

McCain sources point several incidents where Palin has gone off message, and privately wonder if they were deliberate. For example: labeling robo calls “irritating,” even as the campaign was defending the use of them and telling reporters she disagreed with the campaigns controversial decision to pull out of Michigan.

A second McCain source tells CNN she appears to now be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.

“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” said this McCain adviser, “she does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: divas trust only unto themselves as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom.”

More at the link. :popcorn:

Also, what do people think about the part of the quote: "does not have any relationships of trust with...her family"? I think that's especially brutal!

[DrToast]

1. These are things they might have discovered if they bothered to vet her

Just sayin'.

[endthewar]

4. They should have prepped her for the possibility of an impending loss

and told her that she should be disciplined and put the campaign ahead of herself. It's going to be fun watching the McCain campaign tear up Palin after this election is over. :evilgrin:

[FLyellowdog]

9. I agree...oh, the stories they will tell!

[endthewar]

11. Nov. 5 might be more exciting than Nov. 4

:rofl:

[Lex]

19. agreed

[DrToast]

13. I doubt it would have mattered

Honestly, anyone with Google could have learned from her past behavior that she is ruthless and will stab anyone in the back if she think she can get ahead. Palin was trouble from the start.

[NewJeffCT]

39. but, she met McCain for 15 minutes, so that was enough

not even time for him to learn how to turn his computer on and do a couple of searches on the google.

[quakerboy]

63. I'm sure there was more too it than that

I'm sure someone mentioned that she was a beauty pageant winner. I suspect that clinched it. Not only does she fit his little messed up image of who he would surround himself with, but it also then proves she's a winner, and thats what McCain wanted... a little luck, someone to blow on the dice for him.

I'm sure glad that has worked out so well for him.

[AzNick]

118. She did not lose the pageant...

She lost to a black lady, who now says she wishes her to lose again.

[quakerboy]

119. Miss Wasilla

[AzNick]

121. Miss Meth Capital of Alaska LOL nt

[Cha]

62. Yeah, like mccain puts his Country ahead

of his party.

[tigereye]

75. my husband was reading Huffpo implying that that is already happening

"the night of the long knives"..

[Bicoastal]

2. You know what I love about the McCain/Palin ticket?

Most of the Republicans who respect McCain can't abide Palin and most of the Conservatives who love Palin can't stand McCain.

John's dumbest decision ever: picking a running mate who was sure to upstage him. Meanwhile, Biden is doing his job as a #2 man perfectly.

[foo_bar]

96. I figure it was like "The Producers"

he thought he was getting an insurance policy but the American appetite for cornball thwarted his scheme, churning out a minor diva the one time he needed a loyal dud.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. Entertaining, yes!

[sickinohio]

5. Sounds like the everyone in the rePuke party to me n/t

[GardeningGal]

6. I guess they should have vetted her.

Oops. Big mistake, big.

[seabeyond]

95. lol . yup. n/t

[Ezlivin]

7. It's their fault: They dressed her for success

She's a succubus who will leave the desiccated corpse of McCain behind.

[BrklynLiberal]

65. That is the perfect image of their relationship...

[nc4bo]

8. SNL said basically the same...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/23/sarah-palin-on-snl-costum_n_137248.html

The "Saturday Night Live" costume designer Wednesday night revealed the struggle he had in dressing Sarah Palin: she wanted to wear nicer clothes than they had picked out for her, reflecting the new image she has carefully constructed on the campaign trail.

Of Palin, Broecker said, "In speaking with her, I had to get her to understand why she needed to wear the same thing as Tina . We had gone off and created it for the first time a month ago, a look we identified as Sarah Palin. She had moved on in her own image of herself. I said, 'I know you've moved on ­ you're wearing tighter clothes, more black ­ but this is the character of Sarah Palin.''

The compromise, he said, was Palin returning in her own clothes the second time she appeared on the show to cheer on Amy Poehler's Palin-themed rap.

[endthewar]

12. WOW!!! She really is a diva!

:rofl:

[nc4bo]

16. Hmm-Hmmm. Isn't she special?!

I'll double that :rofl::rofl:

[fishwax]

41. "wanted to wear nicer clothes ... reflecting the new image she has carefully constructed ..."

The "Saturday Night Live" costume designer Wednesday night revealed the struggle he had in dressing Sarah Palin: she wanted to wear nicer clothes than they had picked out for her, reflecting the new image she has carefully constructed on the campaign trail.

Carefully constructed with the help of a 150,000 wardrobe from the RNC. :rofl: :eyes: :puke:

[progressivebydesign]

10. McCain/McVain 2008. My husband sez it's Todd that is calling the shots now.

Brand Sarah -- she is a dangerous person. And to think she blames THEM for screwing it up. Hey.. Caribou Barbie brought her own scandals with her, and the winks, and the complete and utter ignorance of politics.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

14. No wonder McCain has to sit next to her at interviews like a ventriloquist

He can't allow his dummy to reinvent the act.

[dgibby]

81. I think you have that backwards!

:rofl:

[dipsydoodle]

15. Divvy more like it.

.

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. Damn, I was going to say "Americans use that word too?"

and then I saw it was you. You're spot on with that, though (we''l let them look it up if they want to know).

[XemaSab]

59. Urban Dictionary hooked me up

:patriot:

[dipsydoodle]

94. Yup - our slang for

slang for odd, stupid, deviant, weak or pathetic. Perfect word for here really which I only knew because an ex used to call me a div on odd occasions. :)

[Mark Baker]

98. When I was at school

When I was at school, kids who had fucked up their GCSEs so badly that they couldn't even go to college and do a vocational course, let alone stay on at school and do A-levels had the option of staying at school and doing a one year course rather unfortunately called a DVE, which I think stood for Diploma of Vocational Education. Unsurprisingly we A-level students used to refer to DVE students as divvies.

A few years later the DVE was replaced with a very similar qualification called a GNVQ; I do not know whether the name was part of the reason why it was replaced.

[Hamlette]

17. she is a self absorbed control freak. Should of seen THAT coming.

vet you idiots, VET. Don't pick a potential president based on her Wikipedia entry. Idiots.

[Lex]

18. The Repub Party is going to the throw her under the bus after Nov 4th

if they lose. And then back up a few times.

She will be THE scapegoat for everything that has gone wrong.


Edited to add: evidently they already are, hence the OP.

[votetastic]

37. Half of them will... the other half will throw McCain under the bus

The rest of us can sit back and enjoy the scene.

[dgibby]

70. Oh, yummy! Road Kill! Bring your spoons, kiddies!

[endthewar]

73. I can't wait to hear Rush's take on why McCain/Palin lost

These right-wing pundits will have to pick a side and right now it's not completely clear which side they'll take, although I guess they'll choose Palin's side for now but then try to move away from her as 2012 nears.

[sunnybrook]

116. there is already talk

the campaign handled her wrong... should have let her go out there and be herself:rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

42. No - they're already setting McCain up for that

They'll blame it on McCain because he is not a true "movement" conservative. They'll say that if only they nominated a true conservative like _____, they would have won.

[tigereye]

78. well, whose fault is that except theirs and Republican voters?

:rofl:

[NewJeffCT]

97. It's never a Republican's fault

It will be the media's fault he won the nomination because they love McCain - except for now, when it's the media's fault McCain is losing.

[rufus dog]

44. I think it going to be SOOO much better than that.

The old school conservative Repubs and the McCain camp will throw her under the bus, the Christian right along with Rushbo, Asshannity, Beck, will say she is the savior of the party setting up a very big internal struggle for control. This could turn out to be as big of a split as the Civil Rights split of the Dems in the 60's.

[LiberalFighter]

49. Wouldn't it be sweet if they cut off all access to credit cards immediately

when the election is called? Cut off her cell

End up paying for her hotel. Not have the ticket to get back to Alaska.

[dgibby]

84. I'll pay for her ticket back to Alaska, but only if she takes McInsane with her!

[BrklynLiberal]

69. But I think the Fundies may pick uyp the slack and try to get her back into the public eye.

I hope that what happens after her return to Alaska puts an end to any thoughts of that...

[Essene]

76. they already are. She'll be the primary excuse by Nov 4th

Not to say they wont also blame the media, obama's "luck" on the economy, etc...

But they are going to hang her out to dry.

[CakeGrrl]

20. Looks like she's really going "maverick" on her own campaign.

:rofl:

If the Republican party has any smarts left after this when it tries to regroup, it'll make sure she doesn't come back to be its standard-bearer.

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. If she's the next leader of the Republican party

she'll drive it into the ground. :popcorn:

[dgibby]

58. I expect her to form her own "Christian Conservative Party"!

I have a feeling the more moderate wing of the republican party is going to kick the right wing fundies to the curb after this.

[tigereye]

79. that's what my husband was just saying

she and Hasselback can have their own creepy RW sideshow...


:hi: Muriel!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

22. The woman is a narcissistic sociopath. Don't they get it by now?

[Blue_In_AK]

24. Being a diva and "going her own way"

is what got her the Alaska governorship. If McCain had bothered to vet her here, he would have known that. It's dangerous having two "mavericks" on the same ticket.

[volstork]

25. Wow. NEVER would

have guessed that!

Need I post it?
:sarcasm:

[nomaco-10]

26. But, but, but "I said get me a hot female MAVERICK.".....

Oh john, you should have specified no divas when you placed that hurried up unvetted order. It so pays to have a good campaign staff working for you. They kind of look out for you that way.

[Loge23]

27. ...and this is close??

The McCain campaign is a study in what not to do when running for elected office.
The have no message, no discernible platform that differs from the current administration.
Any attempts to be positive (i.e. "change", "middle class") have all been rip-offs from Obama's campaign.
The VP candidate and choice is a disaster - ethically (and ethnically) challenged and arguably manipulated and /or controlled by her husband and other un-sundry interests (AIP?).
McCain himself has been revealed as an angry, intolerant, bitter man - perhaps the result of selling himself out - or maybe just being revealed as what he really is.
Yet, we're still holding our breathe and keeping our fingers crossed.
Obama, on the other hand, has clearly laid out a direction and a plan. He has behaved impeccably, with great decorum and a wisdom that is inspiring and optimistic. He has steadfastly resisted all attempts to join in a street fight. He has been revealed as a genuinely fine man - intelligent, wise, and thoughtful.
I am hopeful for the future of this country - that this country will turn against fear and hatred and get about being Americans again.
The fact that I'm still nervous - with 10 days to go - tells me that there's still a long way to go, if we get there at all.

[Zynx]

29. Your entire premise is faulty. It isn't close.

[Loge23]

32. Thank you for your detailed response (eom)

[Zynx]

53. The details are on all of the poll aggregating sites.

I don't need to put them here.

[endthewar]

55. I think the poster was just giving the "don't be complacent" spin on the results

:hi:

[tigereye]

82. his campaign is a disaster - he should have fired his campaign staff months

ago.

[endthewar]

86. He did. Remember when he brought on Schmidt to replace Davis?

I think this was back in July, right before they went with the celebrity smear campaign.

[tigereye]

92. whoops. I guess I wasn't paying that much attention at the time.

Well, he should fire these guys, too!


;)

[PfcHammer]

28. Is a diva like a ho, then?

:shrug:

[endthewar]

50. "diva" essentially means a stuck-up, snobby, celebrity

[HughMoran]

30. Pass a couple bags of popcorn my way

This is getting good :popcorn: :popcorn:

[nomaco-10]

38. I know, ain't it fun? An up close and personal look at....

the mclame/failin campaign imploding. It's the preview to the featured attraction; "The Rise and Fall of the Republican Party" Look for it in your local newspaper or on all your national network and cable TV channels. Coming Soon to a media outlet near you. Watch the action, the tempers flaring, the blame game, the meltdowns...

[frickaline]

45. Problem is I'm going to want to netflix it again later

and again...
and again...

and again...




and again...

[madaboutharry]

31. The comment about her relationship

with her family is rather stunning.

One thing that I think is that she hasn't been a good mother. Both of her teenage children have gone off course. I think in many cases the kind of behavior her children engaged in, teen pregnancy and in the son's case vandalism, is often an indication of a lack of attention. She is a diva. She is wrapped up in herself and is the center of her own universe.

[SheWhoMustBeObeyed]

47. I've never seen her interact with them

She just drags her school-age children around the country. She rarely touches her family and they rarely touch her. They don't even look at each other. There is no warmth between them. Sad, really.

[endthewar]

52. Agreed. I think that's the most damning part of the quotes from the McCain aide.

I wasn't too surprised that they said that Palin doesn't have the trust of McCain advisors, but to say that she doesn't have the trust of her own family? WOW! This is going to be good! :popcorn: :rofl:

[XemaSab]

61. I read that the other way: that she doesn't TRUST her family

:shrug:

[endthewar]

72. You might be right

either way, that's a very damning and personal statement to make. How would McCain's aides know if she trusts her family or if her family trusts her when they've only known her for a few weeks?

[dgibby]

64. Could explain Todd's ubiquitous presence.

Let's see--She and Todd-shotgun wedding, she and Todd's business's partner-alleged affair. I don't think I'd trust her, either!

[BeyondGeography]

33. McCain/Palin...a dysfunctional duo for the ages

[tigereye]

83. she seems like a character out of a Danielle Steele novel...

creepy.

[Orsino]

34. They *started* with a diva and treated her like royalty, never to be questioned...

...while making excuses for her every misstep. What the hell did they think would happen?

[endthewar]

56. Wonderful point!

You reap what you sow! :rofl:

[sunnybrook]

113. started with a diva

created a monster! Her ego has been sufficiently enlarged... sweetheart of the rw hatefest tour... and all of the people who have called her "hot." On NPR yesterday, Diane Rehm show, she was asking why Bill Kristol was such a strong supporter of Palin. The guest said Kristol probably had a "crush" on her. Rehm was clearly disgusted, saying, "Give me a break!" Palin probably did not mind doing the line on Caribou Barbie on SNL... that is a compliment to her... everyone is just jealous... they don't take her seriously because they are librul, commie, etc... diva indeed!

[NightOwwl]

35. Jeez...who woulda thunk it.

:eyes:

[rufus dog]

36. FUCK THEM

McCain couldn't figure that out in his 15 minute meeting with her.

I, along with millions of others, saw her flaws within five minutes of air time. I will never forget sitting in SHOCK during her RNC speech.

[madaboutharry]

40. Her lines in the speech where she asserted that

she was more prepared for executive office than Barack Obama, snarkly putting down his work as a community organizer. The republicans are jerks.

[sunnybrook]

117. it took less than 24 hours on DU and Google

to uncover TONS of damning information... like she is being sued for abuse of power...duh

[alison]

43. Not at all surprising, especially after her $150,000 spending spree.

I love how Craig Crawford called this a "death rattle." So true!

[4lbs]

46. She can star in this show...

[Norrin Radd]

48. A real diva has talent. She has none.

[kestrel91316]

54. As her truly deplorable attempt at playing the flute during the talent portion

of the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant aptly demonstrated.

[senseandsensibility]

106. Is there video of that?

I don't know if I'd have the stomach to watch it, though.

[kestrel91316]

111. Yes, there was a youtube of her entire performance, and no, you don't

want to subject yourself to it. I studied flute for years. Trust me - she is incompetent at that, too. It was embarrassingly BAD.

[Wolfies Revenge]

51. Hahahahahaha!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's what McCain gets for picking that airheaded beyotch thinking she could break Hillary's glass ceiling.

[nichomachus]

57. To understand Sarah Palin, this is required reading

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=7601281&mesg_id=7601281

[tigereye]

85. yeah we are reading that copy of the New Yorker now...

[Cha]

60. No shit sherlock. palin is a lying,

sociopathic diva.

I'd like to know more about "no trust issues with her family".

[endthewar]

67. Same here.

I can't wait for the details about the trust issues with her family. Is it about Bristol? Perhaps Todd is believing the National Enquirer story about Sarah's affair? :popcorn:

[Stinky The Clown]

66. I'll apply the same number of salt grains to this as to reports of their unity.

Can I imagine her more concerned for herself than the campaign?

You betcha.

[endthewar]

68. Rachel Maddow had a short part of her show

where she highlighted one of McCain's aides constantly telling the media "thank you" over and over again to try to prevent Palin from answering questions. The autopsy of this campaign will be one for the ages. :rofl:

[glitch]

71. Does that mean she's ready for her close up now? nt

[Essene]

74. and so began the hanging of Sarah Palin...

[endthewar]

77. McCain should have hired you to vet her

You definitely did a great job. :hi:

[nomaco-10]

80. This is all too delicious. Accusations of diva, rouge...

trust issues, aides looking for private sector jobs. Folks, you are witnessing a campaign in it's last death throes.

Stock up on some orville's this week. I myself, have some champagne chilling. :evilgrin:

[Enrique]

87. you have to be careful with pit bulls

they'll turn on you. :scared:

[Jennicut]

88. The lack of a trusting relationship with her family...that is bizarre.

But I see the lack of any real warmth with the Palin family. The baby gets tossed around, rumors of the daughter being forced to live with an aunt after she got pregnant, Todd's weird intrusive behavior of sitting in on all his wife's decisions in the governor's office. Cindy and John seem to have no warmth either. What a bunch of bizarre families. When I watch the Obamas and the Bidens they light up the t.v. screen with their warmth and love between each other but the Palins and McCains leave me cold.

[endthewar]

89. Excellent analysis!

Hard for Republicans to claim that they're the party of family values when you compare the Obamas and Bidens to the McCains and Palins.

[Az_lefty]

90. All this attention has totally gone to her head, she's just lapping it up.

Everything is about her, even to the point of using her family as props on the national stage. It's become quite clear that she is either narcissistic or has borderline personality disorder.

[Essene]

91. i think it's much more about her being setup for hanging

This is the 2nd big article in 24 hours where 'campaign insiders' effectively spin a story about how she's causing tensions, wanting to be more of a rogue... etc.

I think she's a small town girl from a town of 5000 in alaska, who's spent only 1.5 years as a governor of a state with a budget smaller than many school systems. She's way, way out of her league. I think she's smart and has real charisma, but she's just simply too provincial, insensitive and ignorant for the task she was given.

GOP have been jumping ship for a month.

There's a war in the GOP right now, and folks want heads to roll for this disaster. She's being setup.

By the time this is done, she'll be swimming in lawsuits, alaska scandals, campaign scandals... and folks will be saying she even lied during the Mccain vetting process. Watch.

[yardwork]

104. "...a budget smaller than that of many school systems." That's a good point.

[Robeson]

93. She'a a maverick, working for a maverick!....

...They're mavericks, I'll tell ya'!

[begin_within]

99. do they mean sociopath?

[trueblue2007]

100. Palin is a NutCase and a PIT BULL. Watch out...she will bite and she has rabies

[TheDonkey]

101. Diva?!? pass the popcorn. :)

[endthewar]

105. Here ya go:

I brought some extra goodies too:

:popcorn:

I'm going to savor every bit of this too. She laid out the hate in her Convention speech and now her own party is going to throw her under the bus. :rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

102. "The right's two-pronged religion of rage and self-pity"

In retrospect, this is one of the classic Greenwald articles.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2008/10/02/self_absorption/

The Right in this country -- meaning the faction that followed George Bush for the last eight years -- long ago ceased being a movement of political ideas and is driven by two, and only two, extreme emotions: (1) intense, aggressive rage towards their revolving door of enemies, and (2) bottomless self-pity over how unfairly they're being treated. As their imminent defeat looks increasingly likely (potentially on a humiliating scale), these two impulses are in maximum overdrive, feeding off one another in endless self-perpetuation (the more they lose, the more victimized they feel, the more they rage against their enemies who oppress them, etc.).

The Right's rejection by the public can't possibly be due to anything they have done. It can only be due to some extremely vicious enemy that oppresses them uniquely and so very unfairly. For the moment, they're only losing because The Leftist Mainstream Media hates them and is deeply biased against them. Blue Texan points out just some of the painfully obvious idiocy at the heart of this specific strain of woe-is-me-ism:

[endthewar]

107. An absolutely wonderful article!

Very insightful! Thanks! :hi:

You should probably make this an entirely separate thread to bring more attention to it.

[BlooInBloo]

108. It's an old article, but a good one. Kind of "the gft that keeps on giving" sort of thing.

[yardwork]

103. Narcissistic personality disorder.

[Phx_Dem]

109. It fits with the HuffPost story about Palin on SNL.

She initially refused to wear the red jacket outfit that she and Fey were supposed to wear. She wanted to wear her new fancy duds instead. They compromised and told the bitch she could wear her black designer outfit for the Weekend News segment.

What kind of asshole goes on SNL and refuses to wear the pre-selected "costume?" Palin.

[lumberjack_jeff]

110. There's your "Team of Mavericks". More like a pushmepullyou. n/t

[sunnybrook]

112. just wait until Nov 5 and beyond

When they can REALLY spill the beans. They are leaking this now? I'm with you:popcorn: :popcorn:

[Nevernose]

114. This shows good judgement on SP's part.

Would a chronically unemployed, semi-professional snowmobile rider be the person YOU went to for advice? Maybe it's time to upgrade her suspected IQ into the double digits.

[AZBlue]

115. That's in line with everything that's been said about her prior attitudes and actions.

It's just on a bigger level now.

[quiet.american]

120. Palin has damaged herself immensely; she truly doesn't realize it yet.

She has willfully created so much damaging tape on herself; future campaign opponents have a treasure trove of her saying and doing ridiculous, dangerous things that can be mined almost infinitely for attack ads against her. Sarah the Sociopath may be all smiles now, but when the dust clears, it's going to be a night of the long knives for her.