I am so SICK of McCain camp scapegoating Palin; HE PICKED HER

[debbierlus]

The McCain campaign is throwing her under the bus.

Don't get me wrong, I don't like her.

However, HE picked her as his running mate. And, he bears the responsibility of putting a uneducated religious nut job on the ticket.

[orestes]

1. Sick of it? Hell, I hope this is just the beginning

[BridgeTheGap]

2. There all a bunch of egomaniacal idiots! n.t

[Lucky 13]

Look at it this way. The longer they keep bashing her...

... the less likely we will see her on a national ticket again.

So I say, BRING ON THE BASHING!!

[TwilightGardener]

3. I don't think they're scapegoating. I think they're doing the party a favor.

[tekisui]

6. I agree. I have my own theory below.

[RollWithIt]

4. I hope they can stretch this catfight out at least a month or two...

Not sick of it!

[tekisui]

5. You know, it leads me to speculate....

McCain knew he was gonna lose, picked a "true conservative" that he could later ridicule and blame for what was an inevitable loss.

[Lars39]

35. I agree.

All the gaffes, the Palin pick and the topper of Cheney doing an endorsement commercial for McCain...all point to wanting to lose.

[eissa]

7. Yes, but

I'm still enjoying it :evilgrin: More track marks, more, more!!

[Avalux]

It's all good; splintering the GOP. Palin NEEDS to be scapegoated.

Do you want to see her again? I don't!!

[OneGrassRoot]

16. Finish her off once and for all. :) Thanks, McCain people! n/t

[AlCzervik]

8. he did pick her so ultimately it's his fault but i'm not going to lie, i am totally enjoying

the melt down and civil war in the gop and this is adding to it.

She is a terrible polarizing figure that incited hate.

[writes3000]

9. It's the ROMNEY folks who are doing this...

It's all a battle for the future.

[Kahuna]

17. Yep! His paw prints are all over this. nt

[RaleighNCDUer]

10. That is the definition of scapegoat -

pointing the finger at someone to deflect attention from the real culprit.

Of COURSE they are going to scapegoat her.

(That doesn't mean she doesn't deserve every bit of it, though. :evilgrin: )

[tridim]

11. I've been listening to Rush try to explain all this.

It's hilarious and pure entertainment. He doesn't understand what's going on either.

It's pretty obvious the GOP is imploding big time!

[last1standing]

12. It probably isn't really McCain scapegoating her.

It's most likely McCain staff that moved their real allegiance over to Romney or Guiliani after it became apparent that McCain would lose. They're taking a preemptive strike against Palin to see if they can sink her move in 2012 before it gets started. They know the knuckle-draggers worship her so they need to destroy her just as they tried to destroy Obama.

It's really all they know.

[Mz Pip]

13. Poetic (or not so poetic) justice

I think McCain knew she was a mistake from the beginning but was pressured to pick her. He couldn't or wouldn't stand up to the lunatic fringe of his own party. Must suck to be him and wake up every morning to the realization that if he really had been the maverick he claimed to be he just might have had a shot at this election. Maybe he still would have lost but he wouldn't belloking so much like a fool right now.

Palin was a disaster. IF the GOP adopts he as some kind of standard bearer for the party they are going to be toast for a long long time. This is not a country of reactionaries. McCain should have understood that.

[Breeze54]

14. I LOVE IT!!! I love to see GOP infighting... it's a frigging riot !!

:rofl: :rofl: I want MORE!!! :P

Last I heard on the noon news is that Palin actually answered her hotel room door in a TOWEL!! :silly:

What a class act for a wannabe Vice President!! :rofl:

[Kahuna]

15. It was his folly for selecting her. It was her folly to accept. nt

[cjsmom44]

18. They want to wash their hands of her....

They need to find a scapegoat in order to somehow escape blame for the disaster of the Palin pick...in the first place....To think she could have been a heartbeat away from the presidency !!!
So now they try to turn out all this crap against her to take the focus off of their own stupidity !!!

[SurfingAtWork]

19. What else do you expect from the "party of personal responsibility"?

[unpossibles]

27. nothing else at this point

it's all they know.

[indie_voter]

20. Not me. I want every juicy detail. From both sides of this debacle. n/t

[Overseas]

21. That's how I feel. Republicans pushed her at us as a great reformer

and now those Country Club First snobs are smearing her here and there as a Wasilla Hillbilly.

It is typical of them. They used Sitcom Sarah to stir up the fake culture war and get the fundamentalist wingnuts snarling mad to try to eke out a win using their fabulous ethics of THE ENDS JUSTIFY THE MEANS.

Then they turn around and smear their own little princess as trailer trash.

They really are disgusting snobs, those elitist Country Club First Republicans.

[grace0418]

22. I see what you mean BUT... IMHO she is FAR more dangerous than McCain. So if there is

anyone I'd like to see scapegoated into obscurity and utter irrelevance, its Sarah Palin. Even if McCain bears the responsibility of selecting her in the first place.

[Lerkfish]

23. I'm all for extending the schaudenfreude a lot longer: the longer they do it, the more

people make the inevitable conclusion that you have: HE PICKED HER.

that goes to his and the republican party's duplicity, irresponsibility,and the contempt in which they hold the american people.

that only helps us.

if your enemy is shooting himself in the foot with his OWN bullets, just sit back and enjoy the show.

I have no sympathy for caribou barbie. Even though he picked her, she's a whackjob secessionist dominionist and deserves whatever she gets.

[Cha]

28. You, obviously, have

a good feel for the situation. moosecrap was an inherent danger to our country and she needs to be totally, metaphorically, chopped off at the knees.

[Lerkfish]

33. yup, and the scary thing is that the mccain camp KNEW THAT with his age, and didn't care

they were willing to dump the entire country down the toilet.

f@ckers. screw them, I say.

[unpossibles]

24. it's typical. She is his fault if he picked her

but the Republicans never admit fault.

Let them attack each other and splinter. The smart Republicans and conservatives are already staying away from them.

[KathieG]

25. IMO...there are a lot of people to blame in the McCain camp (McCain definitely included)...

plenty of room under the bus. If the republicans want to believe that it was all Palin's fault...so be it, but anyone with more than two brain cells to rub together knows better.

[Doremus]

26. She didn't have to accept.

When they asked her she should have run far, far away.

Instead she let her greed and egotism take over and she is now bearing the consequences for foolish choices.

[pdxmom]

29. I have no problem with the information that is coming out, if it saves us

from her at a later date. And yes, McCain picked her. But damn, she accepted. And she insisted, in more than one interview, that she was perfectly competent and able to perform the duties of President, should something happen to McCain.

She overreached. She could have said no. She chose to put herself into the national spotlight and to try to run with the big boys (and girls) who have rumbled in national politics for years and know the rough and tumble that goes on there. Nicolle Wallace runs with the big dogs, and she defended herself against the Palin camp accusations. Palin wasn't ready and she tried to swim in the ocean when she's only qualified to splash in the kiddy pool.

[zulchzulu]

30. If McCain throws her under the bus, it just shows you what kind of asshat he is

He should be defending her.

[yardwork]

31. I am thoroughly enjoying the spectacle. I want to see more rats biting one another.

[ShortnFiery]

32. I think it's great. If Palin is to be "the future" of the GOP, let's nip that radical Fundy in the

bud. ;) :thumbsup:

[nam78_two]

34. I am DELIGHTED to see it-McCain is no longer a threat

She otoh could come back in 2012 and she was always the scarier one by far on that ticket. I don't want to see her on the national scene again-she represents the scariest kinda Repug and I am all for her being torn down, whoever does it.

[Lex]

36. Repuke circiular firing squads are AWESOME!

[Blue_In_AK]

37. He bears 100 percent of the responsibility.

He didn't vet her at all in Alaska, where we would have told him that she wasn't ready (if she'll ever be) for the national stage. It was extremely foolish of him not to ask people here in Alaska, who know her best, about what we think. Even her supporters thought this was a mistake -- and it's damaged her immensely here ... not that that's a problem for me personally, but in a way I feel kind of sorry for her because she did have a nice coalition of Democrats and Republicans in the legislature helping her get some fairly popular things passed and now that coalition is shattered.

McCain did a wonderful job of creating a huge partisan rift here within the state that hadn't existed before. Nice job, Mac.

[Window]

38. It's going to really get juicy when Sarah starts slinging mud of her own back at them.

[rvablue]

39. I'm not sick of it...I love anything that is going to keep that dangerous woman

off of the national stage.

And, frankly, if someone who was running for VP did not know what many kindergardeners know, that Africa is a continent and not a country, I'm glad to know it in advance. And, compounding that scary bit of trivia, was the scarier follow up that not only did she not know that, she got into a debate about it......bone chilling...........