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Palin Wanted to Campaign in Michigan
Sarah Palin was loath to cede Michigan to the Obama campaign last year and pressed McCain aides for weeks to let her go to the state, according to an excerpt of Sarah From Alaska. "If there's any time, Todd and I would love a quick return to Michigan—we'd tour the plants, etc.," she wrote in an email. "I hate to see us leave Michigan." According to the book, Palin's feelings about Michigan were so strong, in fact, that McCain campaign manager Rick Davis attempted to order Secret Service agents to prevent the candidate from traveling there against orders—because Palin had concocted a plan for a rogue midnight visit, perhaps with Leno or Letterman.
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It sounds like they mostly wanted to keep her in the South and rural areas where she could fire up the Confederate-evangelical base, but they knew she was poison in the big cities and suburbs of the other regions. I don't see any of the Republicans exactly falling all over themselves to invite her to campaign events.
Get real.
The confederates were democrats. The slave-holders were democrats. The KKKers were democrats. The Jim Crow laws and segregations were the product of democrats.
Re-cycled Plantkin, posted many times this past summer. Pretending, charitably speaking, that what she says has anything to do with where the two parties have stood on Civil Rights for the last 50 years. This is one of Plantkin's most a-historical and desperate distortions. Yet here she is peddling it again, one reason among many why Plantkin is a laughing stock on TDB.
Yes Plantagenet they WERE democrats, but remember they joined the Republicans back in the sixties in opposition to the Civil Right Act.
christer nut-job Sarah Palin was used to "robo-call" voters in Virginia.
The overriding objective is to keep christer nut-job Sarah Palin away from reporters and away from open microphones.
Any attempt by christer nut-job Sarah Palin to speak extemporaneously ends in disaster.
The christer reich will allow her to read manuscript speeches but they do not want any reporters asking christer nut-job Sarah Palin any adult questions.
christer nut-job Sarah Palin has a bad habit of spewing "word salad" when asked questions about serious issues.
The fact that christer nut-job Sarah Palin ridiculed her own mentally retarded son says volumes.
You got it. She's so abstract in her responses, it's hard to understand where she even stands. It'll be a funny to listen to a whole hour of her on Oprah in couple of weeks.
I alomst feel bad for her already.......almost.
Vanity Fair publishes piece quoting "top aides" to the McCain campaign who worried about Sarah Palin's "mental state." Republicans respond by eating their own:
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Loathe though I am to agree with Palin, she is right about Michigan.
I was born and raised there and her kind of outdoorsy, populism, tinged with religious conviction would play very well.
Don't forget, Pat Robertson won the republican primary there not so long ago.
An old, but appropriate saying from the pre-digital age:
"Even a stopped clock is right twice a day."
As another Michigander on here...I agree as well. Outside of Detroit-Metro (Ann Arbor, Royal Oak, and a few enclaves on the coast of lake Michigan) Michigan is a pretty conservative state -- Palin likely would have appealed to many evangelicals/hard-line Catholics in the state. I do love The Mitten, but there are some backwards folks here.
Palin had better instincts than the McCain campaign, the more I think about it, it seems the McCain campaign did everything they could to lose.
Including bringing her on board.
HAHA!
good one!
"America" ,Sarah Bush = another Bush presidency mark my word as she would say, She is "NOT" who she says she is, Just like Bush " DO NOT BE FOOLED TWICE ........!
No need to worry. There is absolutely no way she can win... or even get the nomination.
I don't know...
With Bill Kristol's backing... impossible things seem to happen.
Remember that G.W.Bu$h was not elected but was appointed.
Sarah Palin was the only thing the McCain campaign did right!
The advisers were right, the Michiganders that would have fallen for her "right to life" and anti evolution views were the same ones that wouldn't have voted for a woman.
Sounds like the palin concession speech was written long after the election to make her seem not so bitter and divisive.This comes a lot to late to help her reputation for being bitter and divisive.
All this going rogue that's coming out reminds me of what a disaster it would have been had McCain been elected. You think Biden causes Obama problems....imagine the problems McCain would have had controlling Palin.
Uncontrollable belly laugh!
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