McCain's Morons Speak Out, As If That's A First

It's hard to not laugh at these nitwits who ran such a dismal campaign, then spent months blaming Palin from the shadows, having suddenly discovered self-righteous anger so they can start to pop off, again. They should give up professional campaigning, buy up some tents and animals, traveling the back roads of America from now on. At least then people wouldn't cringe when they found out Schmidt's circus was coming to town. Their biggest challenge might be getting Nicole Wallace to grow a beard. But she's made herself over so many times, it might be worth a shot.

Meet the losers behind the loser McCain. Funny that so many people associated with the effort who don't cling to the camera for a living believe they were even worse than the book would seem to make out. If some of the old line politicians are the first people who have to get out of Washington because they stayed too long, they need to pack up their hack consultants incapable of dealing with politics, technology and new media today to run a truly effective campaign.

At least Palin has options and a huge following. These idiots can look forward to running races for drunken Ward bosses and county sheriffs if there's any justice in the world. They don't even appear to know when to shut-up. Not a big surprise, the alleged top guys in the campaign always did seem to be competing with the candidate for media face time. I wonder who they were really working for in the end? If it was McCain, the campaign, their many subsequent excuses and the final result tell you all you need to know about that. If Romney signs some of them up, I guess we can write him off now and save some page space for the obituary to come.

Top aides to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign hit back at Sarah Palin Friday, after news reports revealed that the former vice presidential nominee’s soon-to-be-released book extensively criticizes the campaign’s press strategy – with many of its hardest shots aimed squarely at campaign manager Steve Schmidt.

Schmidt, she writes, was “grim-faced” and “cool,” and tried to pin the campaign’s troubles on what he claimed was Palin’s post-partum depression, and even went to so far as to try and dictate her diet.

According to excerpts published on the Huffington Post, Palin “took in his rotund physique and noted that he used nicotine to keep his own cognitive connections humming along.”

Comments

[Jehosophat]

If you judge Schmidt on professional ability rather than ideology or likeability, you have to give him credit for running a very good campaign. He repeatedly had Obama on the defensive, and actually had McCain ahead for a short time after the conventions in a very, very tough year for Republicans. The did make some errors - most importantly, McCain's decision to suspend his campaign in response to the economic crisis - but then they had to throw a lot of hail mary passes to even stay in the game.

As for Palin's claim that she did a credible job during the Katie Couric interviews, it's ridiculous. She stunk, pure and simple. Even if you have the best ideas in a campaign, you can't win if you can't get them across and if you make silly claims that are easily punctured. If anything, Couric was exceptionally gentle with her - other politicians would have been overjoyed to get an interview like that - and Palin's whining about the treatment she received is sickening to most independent voters. If you don't like people to question your abilities and motives, don't go into politics.

[bishop]

Except Schmidt had no answer after the end ofSeptember,
they wanted to quit, not realizing this was not a game. The fate of the nation hung in the balance. There
was someone who did figure it out. Who hasn't taken the easy course, which would have been to withdraw from public life entirely. Or let herself be drawn into bankruptcy and have the state grind to a halt.

To come to this conclusion, after the last year, that
Obama has a clue, except about how wreck this country
is ludicrous.

[Elmo]

Bottom line, Obamedia fraudlently elevated a Muslim traitor, to the office of the Presidency. Real blame where do ... http://anechoicroom.blogspot.com/2008/01/destruction-of-rudy-g.html

That Chucklhead didn't trounce, that Mac and Sarah weren't. Credit to the street. The average Joe/Jill. Who didn't give up, didn't surrender. And gave same direction/inspiration to me, their belief greater than mine (having already called the outcome for the twelfth mahdi).

I don't know if we will lose against the insect horde. If America will go quietly into that good mosque. I'm no longer confident America will survive.

Just as the entire fabric of the Middle East media, inculcates intolerance, hate, and in turn violence. Obamedia is showcasing online links, to sign up for your free autographed (mo, ham, and ed) knee pads.

It ain't politics as usual (whatever book is in new release). It is survival of the species.

[Neo]

" If you don't like people to question your abilities and motives, don't go into politics."

Obama seems to be doing quite well with that scenario.

[Dan Riehl]

"If you judge Schmidt on professional ability"

Schmidt, Davis? Who the hell was running it? Oh, wait, what day is it? They ran a great primary on the cheap and wanted to win. Totally clueless when it came to the General, whatever the reasons. And I suspect there were many. They got a talent with Palin and never understood what to do with it without hurting themselves. They wanted her to be McCain. It was pure stupid run wild. Tunnel vision, just what one coudl expect from McCain loyalists with just enough talent to be where they were ... before the General.

Old strengths became liabilities and they were never adjusted for. That we're even discussing a presidential campaign winning or losing on the basis of the VP selection shows you how inept it was. It ain't about the VP. When McCain suspended his campaign and performed that clusterfark of a return to DC, this race was lost. By attackinhg Palin, or entering into the public conversation at all, they're just a bunch of losers trying to cover their butts and cover for McCain at the same time.

[Fred Beloit]

Just because Mark Steyn can do some Palin fact checking and turn the facts into 1000 words of exquisite prose, in ten minutes while having a cup of coffee and smoking a Pall Mall and while standing on his head, doesn't mean everybody can do it.

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MTE2YmEyMDZkM2Y3NjAzYWZjOTRmYjExZDg4MGE0NzE=

[Joe]

I like Sarah Palin a lot, but Sarah definitely made some mistakes and not all of them can be blamed on "the other other" McCain staffers like the Bald Headed Daddy Warbucks Wannabee Steve Schmidt or his spider woman henchbitch CBS promoter Nicole Wallace(although quite a lot can).

Meanwhile, talking about henchbitches:

Palin Uterus Obsessed? Guess who wishes he was Tina Fey (in more ways than one)? Then again Andrew Sullivan's latest post on how Palin is obessed with suing him (no backup for that of cousrse) makes me think the power of the vagina is calling to Sullivan (and it is driving him mad). He is resisting crossing over me thinks.

Sarah is popular with the base, but has some very high negatives. Can she overcome them? Yeah, perhaps. But that depends on Sarah Palin. I would not freak out too much about attacks at this point. It might actually benefit Sarah to be under estimated going in.

[Paco]

"They should give up professional campaigning, buy up some tents and animals, traveling the back roads of America from now on."

They'd probably get trampled by their own elephants.

[Joe]

Apparently Obama is bowing again (this time to the Japanese emperor (I guess the one who is related to the one who came out of the hills to sign the peace treaty after WWII--which happened in Obama bizzaro history only). Althouse had this youtube clip on proper bowing protocol for da One. http://althouse.blogspot.com/2009/11/obama-is-bowing-again.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdlNZJ_TFXU&feature=player_embedded

[Scott D]

McCain was just a horrible candidate it's that simple.

His prelude to his candidacy Senate Efforts the year prior was the overwhelmingly unsuccessful Immigration reform.

McCain with his one item resume, "War Hero" for surviving 6 years in a POW camp. Finishing nearly last in his class at the Naval Academy rendered that asset moot. His senate Career has been largely benign save for his co-sponsored legislation with the other side of the aisle. His nickname, MAVERICK comes not from being a fighter pilot but from screwing republicans in his own party.

When McCain suspended his campaign revealed his poor decision making proclivities. He lost the majority of any independent support on "that dreadful day"!

The problem with McCain's decision to select Palin as VP was that her resume was much deeper,stronger and pro Republican-conservative than McCain's. Palin also has a much stronger personality than McCain.

Blaming the Republican VP candidate for any of McCain's miserable campaign decisions and failures is like crediting Joe Biden with Obamas victory.

[syn]

"If you judge Schmidt on professional ability rather than ideology or likeability, you have to give him credit for running a very good campaign."

McCain's campaign was disastrous; everyone except Democrats and their State-run media wanted no part of him until the lady from Alaska came on the scene to save his sorry way.

The only success McCain achieved was during the primaries when he acquired some George Soros money to help McCain overcome his McCain-Feingold problem around the time his campaign was dirt broke and he was begging on bended knees before La Raza.

[section9]

"If you judge Schmidt on professional ability rather than ideology or likeability, you have to give him credit for running a very good campaign. He repeatedly had Obama on the defensive, and actually had McCain ahead for a short time after the conventions in a very, very tough year for Republicans. The did make some errors - most importantly, McCain's decision to suspend his campaign in response to the economic crisis - but then they had to throw a lot of hail mary passes to even stay in the game."

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Pure, unadulterated bollocks. Without Palin, Schmidt would have lost by at least 10-11 points. Palin got them close in a toxic atmosphere. 2008 was simply a bad time to be a Republican. After September 15th and Lehman Brothers' collapse, it was terminal. Give this to Sarah, she fought till the end.

[Anon]

The McCain campaign was the worst run Republican campaign in my memory. Granted, he had a lot of strikes against him that were out of his control...the economy meltdown, being an old white guy running against a young black guy, and most importantly, having the media totally turn on him.

However, none of that excuses the fact that Obama's people ran circles around him at the grassroots level, that even factoring in media bias he failed to come up with a strong message and that neither his economic plan or his health plan were sufficiently different from Obama's and the fact that the campaign contually waffled between attacking Obama and being afraid to attack him. When you add on their failure to either embrace or properly manage Sarah Palin, well, they lost, as you would expect a badly run campaign would.

How much of Palin's utter destruction in the public consciousness was due to her own shortcomings or the shortcomings of the campaign is unknown. She is surely smarter than the media gives her credit for, but also pretty wacky at times, not presidential material at this time.

[Rokker]

Take off the blinders.

Sarah Palin does not have what it takes nor ever will.

She is destined to be a host of a 700 club type TV show for evangelicals.

[Reaganite Republican]

Liberals' double-standard sexism is appalling; she's "dumb" because she's a happy and attractive Christian, who enjoys being a mother?

Real feminists need to be angry, wear combat boots, no make-up, short hair, and live alone in a studio apartment in the East Village? She's not the right kind of example because she doesn't support affirmative action... but instead went out there and just kicked butt?

The fact that Sarah's been so highly successful in life -while ignoring the group-therapy, confrontational victimhood of the left-wing feminist movement- explains the extra dose of venom in these attacks... her achievement turns their whole world on it's head, and she does it with a smile.

And IMO- she can pretty go anywhere she wants to politically, she's a natural... it's her call. Palin would be a natural antidote for Obamamania's trail of wreckage- the Gipper in Heels... believe that

Go get 'em Cuda...

[Neo]

.. per Mark Steyn ..

PALIN: How many AP fact-checkers does it take to change a lightbulb?

FACT: Palin has gone seriously "rogue" in her facts here. AP fact-checkers are prevented per union regulations from changing lightbulbs.

[Rokker]

DERRRRRRRRR!

[gary gulrud]

Oblabla-Mittens-Cuda in 2012.

Yeah, I'm scared to death Romney might win draining the cesspool of moderate Donks.

[jimr3]

Jehosophat said @ 9:52 AM: “As for Palin's claim that she did a credible job during the Katie Couric interviews, it's ridiculous.”

Where has Palin ever once said that she did a credible job during the Couric interview? I defy you to give me one instance where she said anything that remotely resembles your claim. In fact, Palin has said the exact opposite of what you speciously claim --once in her April Indiana Right to Life speech where she sarcastically said “that went real well” and again in her upcoming interview with Oprah Winfrey where she says she knew the Couric interview “wasn’t a good interview”. Now since you made a brazen false and “ridiculous” statement; everything else in your comment should be considered false and “ridiculous” as well.

[Frederika]

I like smartasses like Jehosophat. lately this country seems to be full of them. I wonder thought how Hussein Obama did at Pastor Warren Forum? From what I remember he looked like a retard. But then again it is true he did not have his teleprompter, so...