Comments on: Is the McCain Camp Spreading Smears in the Name of Fighting Them?

By: LJ

LJ — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:41:47 +0000

This is funny. The media personally attacks her for days and days and days and now you all think she should give an interview….on the issues…because they’ve been SO interested in her position on the issues you must be just positive that the first question on the minds of the media elite will be about her position on Iran. If you want to get into personal transgressions….well, we can do that…Obama has many of his own…you all tell me it doesn’t matter, his past drug use and association with Bill Ayers etc. etc. etc. Well, if you take that off the table then lets move on from the freakin’ Republican VP nominee’s personal issues.

By: tags

tags — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 19:41:35 +0000

What’s going to be difficult for the McCain campaign is all the right wing pundits(such as the National Review) praised the National Enquirer and blasted MSM for not reporting on the Edward’s affair.

By: Lou R

Lou R — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:46:08 +0000

This is what a campaign gets to deal with following shallow vetting. The National Enquirer story has some probability of being true based on the loose moral values of Sara Palin as told by her college classmates; she was an available party girl. The McCain Campaign and Republican Party can sue the Enquirer and already we see the legal undermining attempt of her Alaska attorney to discredit the illegal influence issue; Palin promised full support of the legislative investigation only to refuse to give depositions. Once again, we are seeing the long reach of the Republican Party to corrupt another legal process. More of the same, McSame!

By: Sara B.

Sara B. — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:08:50 +0000

She’s boring me already. Can we talk about the issues? They seem to be protesting to much. It makes me wonder what she does have to hide. A simple DNA test conducted by an independent third party could clear all this up.
When is the McCain camp going to get a reporter close enough to her to ask which books she wanted banned?

By: MildlyMisanthropic

MildlyMisanthropic — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 20:12:13 +0000

Finally someone says it! Tuesday night and last night everyone kept citing questions and accusations about whether “Palin could be a good parent while serving as VP. They never ask Barack Obama that question…” Who ever said or asked that? I’ve not read anything of the kind, and I sometimes visit “liberal” media sites like The New York Times, ABC News, and The Washington Post, as well as the more “balanced” sites like Drudge and FOX. So, where did that come from?

By: Christopher London

Christopher London — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:22:44 +0000

Keep an eye on the McCain Campaign. They have nothing to run on so what they are doing is setting up anti-Palin strawmen so that they can knock them down and run against the media.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:05:44 +0000

I think Chris Matthews made this point yesterday.
The McCain/Palin spokesperson couldn’t point to a single mainstream news story that was “pushing” these rumours about Palin — all the pushing seemed to be coming from the McCain/Palin camp.
I saw evidence of this on Joe Scarborough this morning.
Joe himself brought up a rumour out of the blue — sort of off-topic, if you ask me.
No one else except Pat Buchanan commented — everyone else just looked sort of awkward.
Then Mica changed the subject.
(Good job, Mica!)

By: Elitist

Elitist — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:25:31 +0000

A question for all the Republicans out there?
Is she really the best & most qualified Republican VP candidate that you have?
I could name at least 3 Republican candidates that still has the respect and trust of the general population.
McCain has clearly shown that he wants to win at all cost, even if it means sacrificing America.

By: pleeeze palin

pleeeze palin — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 15:17:43 +0000

They need to make sarcastic remarks because it’s all they got. She’s obviously scared Barack is going to say something about her being a Beauty Queen. Hmm Beauty Queen / Community Organizer. I think I go with Community Organizer. Fact is Barack could have done anything he wanted, but chose to help the poor. Do they really think it’s a good idea to attack that? Show’s you where there priorities are. Hmmm help the poor or have them kiss our buttocks, and show them how popular and better we are than them. She reminds me of the ruthless bullies in school that needed to pick on anyone and gang up on anyone in order to get ahead. Total garbage. She’s not my leader.

By: Sharonklim

Sharonklim — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 13:41:20 +0000

Republican strategy is to hit the news with Palin. Keep the spotlight. AND STAY AWAY FROM THE ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE DISCUSSED. AS A FEMALE I AM INSULTED MCCAIN CAMPAIGN IS CLAIMING “GENDER BIAS” WHEN NO GENDER BIAS HAS BEEN SHOWN. I SAW OBAMA WAS NOT DOING – THEY HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN QUITE GRACIOUS. MEDIA HAS BEEN VETTING, BUT HAS DEFINITELY NOT SHOWN ANY GENDER BIAS. THIS IS AN INSULT TO ALL WOMEN! REPUBLICANS HAVE SAID WE WOMEN ARE TOO STUPID! WE ARE TOO STUPID AND WILL JUMP ON THEIR BANDWAGON BECAUSE THEY ARE CLAIMING GENDER BIAS. I HAVE READ THIS BOOK AS WELL – USE OF THIS “POPULIST” PSYCHOLOGICAL POLITICAL CAMPAIGN APPROACH FOR ALL VOTERS IS ACTUALLY REPUBLICANS ARE DEGRADING THE INTELLIGENCE OF ALL VOTERS – MEN AND WOMEN.