Thread: Palin, the cringe factor: Shut her up! McCain

Just when you thought it couldn't get worse:

Quick, hit the lights! Mad scramble by McCain's staff to stop Palin from making concession speech


Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin planned to salute her husband, Todd, as America's "first ever Second Dude" in a victory speech, had the Republican ticket won last year's US election, a leaked copy of her speech shows.
In contrast to the poetic cadences in President Barack Obama's Chicago victory speech, Mrs Palin's victory address included light-hearted quips, but was equally gracious to opponents and supporters.
The former vice-presidential nominee also had her own concession speech - which she was reportedly prevented from delivering by presidential candidate John McCain - in which she described Mr Obama's victory as "a shining moment in our history that can be lost on no one".


The speeches feature in a new book titled Sarah From Alaska by journalists Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe.

Conroy works for CBS News while Walshe worked for Fox News. The pair were both "embedded" reporters with Mrs Palin's vice-presidential campaign.

The book also documents the mad scramble by Mr McCain to stop her from giving her concession speech, using techniques that included his staff turning the lights off as Mrs Palin approached the stage.
"I think it's pretty clear she wanted one last chance to be in the spotlight," Conroy told ABC's Good Morning America.


"She really wanted to say McCain was a hero and [she was] proud to run a great campaign with him, but she also wanted to get out there and get a few more words in."
ABC News and the Los Angeles Times said they had verified the authenticity of the leaked speeches, which appear in full on The Daily Beast website.
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Had the Republican duo won, Mrs Palin intended to hail the victory as a triumph of "principles and political independence" over "the party line".
She also would have said: "And I said to my husband Todd that it's not a step down when he's no longer Alaska's 'First Dude'. He will now be the first guy ever to become the 'Second Dude'."
In defeat, similar humour was planned: "I told my husband Todd to look at the upside: Now, at least, he can clear his schedule, and get ready for championship title number five in the Iron Dog snow machine race."
There were also equal parts of graciousness and, perhaps, bitterness in her concession.


Of Mr Obama, Mrs Palin would have said: "If he governs America with the skill and grace we have often seen in him, and the greatness of which he is capable, we're gonna be just fine."
But there was also this: "It would be a happier night if elections were a test of valour and merit alone, but that is not for us to question now."
But perhaps the most interesting part of the book was its portrayal of tension and drama on election night, as Mrs Palin sought to give a concession speech while Mr McCain reportedly tried to stop her.
Mrs Palin reportedly wished to speak first and then introduce her running mate.
But Mr McCain deemed it inappropriate and the media were told on the night it was unprecedented for a vice-presidential nominee to speak on election night, ABC News said.
Vice-presidential nominees did in fact give introductory speeches in 2004 and 1992, ABC said.


Later in the night, as Mrs Palin approached the stage with her family to take some souvenir photos, the McCain camp was petrified she might still deliver her speech to the lingering crowd.
"McCain staffers were so worried she was going to give this speech, they turned the lights off on her," Walshe told ABC.
"They were worried and thought she would try to embarrass John McCain."
Another McCain aide who had earlier left phoned a colleague and yelled, "Get control of her! Get her ass off the stage," ABC said.

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Palin/Hannity 2012!!!!

....yawn...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Nah, she is anything but sleep-inducing.

vomit inducing?

Mind numbing?

Depression inducing?

Devoid of cognitive activity?

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

....yawn...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Why the yawn?

Originally Posted by StrontiumDog

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

....yawn...zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Why the yawn?

Heh...liberals seem to obsess about Sarah Palin to a degree that borders on lunacy. Now Dubya is off center-stage, yáll have to have a whipping-boy/girl and Palin is it, eh?

Compared to Pelosi, Babs Boxer and Charlie Rangel, to name a few, Palin is sterling.

Maybe, but if it looks like a turd, smells like a turd....

And no matter how hard you try, you can't polish it.

Sarah Palin is an embarrassment to the USA.

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Get a grip.

One who need to be removed from the so-called political landscape is that fat, disgusting hypocrite Michael Moore. Obsessing about Sarah Palin is keeping her in the spotlight where she'll be tan, rested and ready in 2012...heh

^ True. Quite amusing she is no longer in office but the press et al keep at her. 555

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Heh...liberals seem to obsess about Sarah Palin to a degree that borders on lunacy

Obsessive with obsession much?


Read the article and comment on that instead of resorting to the usual tripe.

try reading the article and comment in that.

Well she's out of the political spotlight, and even though she keeps deliberately vague about it she will never run for any sort of national political office- she wouldn't stand a chance, neither is she up to the job and she knows it. So yes, we can waste too much time on the farcical phenomenon that is Sarah Palin. Her incumbent political value of course, is as a festering embarassment to the Republican party- and what an embarassment. They ran this woman for Vice President of the USA.

Of course the definitive measure of her worth came a few months later, when she abruptly quit her job as Governor of Alaska half way through the term she was elected for, to pursue the money that would come from promoting her book, and public speaking. Just amazing. Even more amazing that people would pay to listen to her speak.

An unlikely hero emerges from this bizarre farce, being John McCain. What a gentleman. It is widely known he didn't want Palin as his running mate (who in their right mind would). She was foisted on him by the Republican Right, and I will never understand that lunacy. She proved to be nothing short of a humiliation, virtually from day One. And a bitter, divisive, petty influence on his campaign. What small chance he may have had of victory in his Presidential campaign evaporated- it was bad enough to have to try and seek election as a Republican following Bush, then they foisted Palin upon him.

But he held his head high, soldiered on, and he has never publicly stooped to criticise either Palin or the GOP for the death blow they dealt to his campaign, and the petty vitriol that accompanied it with the Palin faction. Some people can indeed hold their head high, even in defeat.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

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Obsessing about Sarah Palin is keeping her in the spotlight where she'll be tan, rested and ready in 2012...heh

Great! I really hope so, as the republicans will suffer another heavy defeat. Fingers crossed she runs. Please god, make it so!

Would have been great to see Bush with Palin as VP. Better than Laurel and Hardy, Abbot and Costello put together I reckon.

she'll never hold elective office again.

If the Republicans had nominated Peewee Herman to run as vice-president, Jet Gorgon and Boon Mee would be defending him.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^ True. Quite amusing she is no longer in office but the press et al keep at her. 555

Only some of the American press seems mildly interested.
As for the rest of the world press,and I don't mean to be rude, it is a non issue and irrelevant to the far more important issues facing the planet.

I'll guess I'll put this in this thread.

Palin is still around. There are divisions in the GOP, and I agree that moderates and these "conservatives" don't see eye to eye.

The tension between the party's establishment and conservative insurgents is growing, and there is concern among moderates that setting litmus tests for candidates is pushing the party too far to the right. Prominent Republicans are now split in their assessment of how to move forward.

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has staked her identity with the grass roots against the establishment. "The cause goes on," she posted on her Facebook page after Doug Hoffman, the Conservative Party candidate she backed in a House special election in New York's 23rd District lost to Democrat Bill Owens on Tuesday night. That defeat in a seat long-held by Republicans, and the divisions it exposed, was the only blemish on the party's performance Tuesday.

LInk & Entire: Republicans seek a path to revival - Washington Post- msnbc.com

McCain staffers are publicly refuting Palin's claims and accusations in her latest book.

The rift continues, not only for the former campaign staffers but within the GOP party.

Palin definitely hold a grudge against Couric for the interview, which Palin bombed on.

After seeing the Palin-Couric interview, I was so shocked I youtubed it about 3 more times.

McCain adviser: Palin’s book is fiction

Depictions ‘took place entirely in her imagination,’ says Wallace

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NEW YORK - Former McCain campaign senior adviser Nicolle Wallace says Sarah Palin's book "Going Rogue" is "based on fabrications," and that the basis for Palin’s depictions of her and former McCain campaign director Steve Schmidt as villains "took place entirely in her imagination."

In a statement to The Rachel Maddow Show, the former McCain spokesperson repeatedly used the word "fiction" to describe Palin's narrative and echoed criticisms by other former McCain staffers.

"She probably has a legitimate complaint that things could have been better conceived and executed," Wallace said. "A book about that would have been painful but not entirely unfair," Wallace told an msnbc producer in an off-camera, on-the-record interview.
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Wallace took particular issue with Palin's version of her Katie Couric interview, which did not cast the former vice presidential candidate in a favorable light.

‘Working mom’ interview?
Palin described thinking the Couric interview would be lighthearted and fun. "It was supposed to be ... a working mom speaking with [another] working mom and the challenges that we have with teenage daughters," she told "The Oprah Winfrey Show" in an interview broadcast Monday.
Wallace told msnbc that this is "rationalization or justification or fiction." "We set up this interview on the day of the U.N. General Assembly, with a walk-and-talk in front of the U.N. It was never made as two working gals ... that was supposed to be to highlight her foreign policy savvy."

AP

In this book cover image released by Harper, "Going Rogue: An American Life," by Sarah Palin, is shown.
In her book, Palin writes that the campaign selected Couric to interview her as a favor, to give the evening anchor "a career boost."
"She just has such low self-esteem," Palin recounts Wallace as saying.
Wallace said that was also "fiction," adding, "I am not someone who throws around the word 'self-esteem.' Katie Couric was selected because we did evening anchors ... I did not advocate an interview for anyone I am friends with."
"I think she fixated on me from very early on. She hated me from the beginning," continued Wallace.
Trying to quell feud
On Sunday, NBC News reported that McCain specifically asked his former aides not to do television interviews rebutting Palin's charges and to avoid escalating the feud. In an interview with the Hill newspaper, McCain reportedly said he enjoyed reading Palin's book. "I hope she sells lots of them," McCain said.

LInk & Entire: McCain adviser: Palin’s book is fiction - More politics- msnbc.com

I suppose the Sarah Palin story is an 'American Life', although I suspect not in a way the Religious Right that dote on her so much would like to portray it.

Consider -

An obscure Governor, Sarah Palin, is thrust into the media limelight as a VP candidate, running with McCain

Sarah's daughter becomes pregnant with her bohunk boyfriend, and has a baby out of wedlock.

Palin and McCain are electorally trounced, it is apparent Palin was a poor choice- not up to the job. But she is photogenic, and 'Christian'.

Palins daughter and bohunk split up, acrimony ensues. A court battle over custody looms.

Electoral Loser Palin quites her job as Governor of Alaska mid stream, to promote her book and thus milk the maximum amount of money.

Bohunk daddy Levi Johnson poses nude for Playgirl magazine, to milk the maximum amount of money out of his celebrity.

Money Ho's Sarah and Levi wage a bitchy gossip campaign against each other, in the national Media.



Yep, an all American story all right- the stuff of soap opera's.

What really shines through here is the shameless, opportunistic devotion to $$$money$$$ above all else- above duty and obligation, pride, patriotism, parenthood, Christian morals, family values. Dontcha just love the Religious Right?


I wonder when we'll be seeing Bristol Palin in Hustler mag?

And now for something truly scary...

^ Not if you're a hardcore Democrat- that would be the stuff that dreams are made of.

Won't happen though, unless Amerka has actually gone insane.