Politico's Roger Simon: McCain camp trying to scapegoat Palin

[Pirate Smile]

McCain camp trying to scapegoat Palin
By ROGER SIMON | 10/30/08 4:43 AM EDT

John McCain's campaign is looking for a scapegoat. It is looking for someone to blame if McCain loses on Tuesday.
And it has decided on Sarah Palin.

In recent days, a McCain “adviser” told Dana Bash of CNN: “She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone.”
Imagine not taking advice from the geniuses at the McCain campaign. What could Palin be thinking?
Also, a “top McCain adviser” told Mike Allen of Politico that Palin is “a whack job.”
Maybe she is. But who chose to put this “whack job” on the ticket? Wasn’t it John McCain? And wasn’t it his first presidential-level decision?

And if you are a 72-year-old presidential candidate, wouldn’t you expect that your running mate’s fitness for high office would come under a little extra scrutiny? And, therefore, wouldn’t you make your selection with care? (To say nothing about caring about the future of the nation?)
McCain didn’t seem to care that much. McCain admitted recently on national TV that he “didn’t know her well at all” before he chose Palin.
But why not? Why didn’t he get to know her better before he made his choice?

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In truth, Palin’s real problem is not her personality or whether she takes orders well. Her real problem is that neither she nor McCain can make a credible case that Palin is ready to assume the presidency should she need to.
And that undercuts McCain’s entire campaign.

This was the deal McCain made with the devil. In exchange for energizing his base by picking Palin, he surrendered his chief selling point: that he was better prepared to run the nation in time of crisis, whether it be economic, an attack by terrorists or, as he has been talking about in recent days, fending off a nuclear war.
“The next president won’t have time to get used to the office,” McCain told a crowd in Miami on Wednesday. “I’ve been tested, my friends, I’ve been tested.”

But has Sarah Palin?

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/15073.html

[orestes]

1. This story makes me happy

:evilgrin:

[saltpoint]

2. This is a delightful outcome for us that the Republicans are blaming each

other for their 2008 train wreck a week out.

It suggests something of a morale problem in the red dugout.

[saltpoint]

3. And before I forget it, I'd like to add that "dugout" is one of the

stupidest nouns ever concocted.

[KayLaw]

4. So, why did they chose her?

A poop sandwich is better than Palin. Fundy vote? Woman vote? Because most women don't like and never will.

[polichick]

5. Ya know, I could have vetted her for fifteen minutes and known she's a nutjob...

Too bad McShame doesn't get that he deserves to lose just because of that one decision.