McCain Camp: Palin Gone Rogue

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<font size="5"><center>'Diva Palin is going rogue,'
say McCain backers</font size></center>

By Stephen Foley in New York
Sunday, 26 October 2008

<font size="3">Bitter infighting between advisers to John McCain and his running-mate, Sarah Palin, has exploded into public view, with McCain supporters accusing her of being a "diva" and her own faction warning that they would not let her take the blame if the campaign suffers a heavy defeat. </font size>


Anonymous briefing and counter-briefing yesterday suggested Governor Palin is "going rogue" and blaming many of the campaign's senior advisers for her own plummeting poll ratings. The internecine warfare threatened to overwhelm the Republican effort to close the gap with rival Barack Obama in the final days before the election.

"She is a diva," one McCain loyalist told CNN last night. "She takes no advice from anyone. Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party."

The Alaska governor was reported by friends to have been frustrated at being denied day-to-day contact with the media, being forced instead into high-profile TV interviews where her garbled answers have been the stuff of comedy routines ever since.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...is-going-rogue-say-mccain-backers-973968.html


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• <font size="3">The Kansas City Star says, Sarah Palin is "going rogue" . . . and dropping "hints that she's distancing herself from John McCain . . . positioning Palin to become the GOP standard bearer."</font size>

• The Australian says, the Republican Party is at war as Palin 'goes rogue' . . . [and] Ms Palin is making it obvious she is unhappy how she has been handled by her campaign staff - particularly that she has been shielded from any unscheduled interaction with journalists. "She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," said a senior Republican quoted by the website Politico yesterday, adding that Ms Palin had already begun to "go rogue" in some of her public pronouncements on the campaign trail. CNN reported similar comments.
  
  Politico cited four Republicans close to Ms Palin as saying she had grown frustrated by advice given to her by campaign handlers, whom supporters blame for a series of public relations gaffes.
  
  As The Australian reported last week, Ms Palin has in the past two weeks noticeably distanced herself on several occasions from Senator McCain, a move many regard as her attempt to establish her own identity and a possible run for the White House in 2012 if Democratic contender Barack Obama wins on Tuesday week.
  
  CNN reported a Palin associate saying the candidate was simply trying to "bust free" of what she believes was a damaging and mismanaged rollout."

• Sarah Palin is a diva who has gone rogue, several McCain advisers recently told CNN.
  
  "[Sarah Palin] is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said one McCain aide. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us."

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I'm not surprised - it is a smart political move on her part.

All this really confirms that the McCain camp has admitted to losing this election already.

 

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I'm not surprised - it is a smart political move on her part.

All this really confirms that the McCain camp has admitted to losing this election already.

Perhaps. But, we can take nothing for granted.

We've got to GET OUT THE VOTE ! ! ! ! !

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Seems like Palin is pulling a "Hillary" and looking towards herself for 2012. Seems she is abandoning McCain. She even tossed the campaign under the bus on the $150K shopping spree issue and said it was their idea to buy all of those clothes. Said in a speech this morning that she wore a jacket to a rally because it was getting "crisp" and the jacket she was wearing was her jacket, she emphasized "MY jacket" to clarify who all the other clothes belonged to. The McCain campaign has now split into two competing "camps".

 

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<font size="5"><center>
Sarah Palin book Going Rogue
attacks John McCain campaign</font size><font size="4">

In her book Going Rogue,
Sarah Palin reveals tensions
with John McCain’s campaign in
their doomed bid for the White House</font size></center>

Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue'


By Tom Leonard in New York
Published: 6:18PM GMT 13 Nov 2009


In her memoir published next week, the former Governor of Alaska and vice-presidential candidate reveals simmering tensions over last year’s Republican campaign.

She seeks to portray herself as a homespun, patriotic and God-fearing mother whose image was distorted by a domineering McCain camp and a biased media on their road to defeat by Barack Obama.

She will also surprise detractors of her populist style and moose-hunting bravado by claiming she was a voracious reader in her youth who lapped up George Orwell and John Steinbeck.

Mrs Palin reveals her anguish when the pregnancy of her teenage daughter, Bristol, was played out before an international audience. But in the most glaring omission from the keenly-anticipated 413-page book, there is not a single mention of Levi Johnston, the estranged father of Bristol’s child. Mr Johnston, who has made a career out of giving interviews about the Palin family, is soon to pose for Playgirl magazine.

The memoir, for which Mrs Palin has been paid at least $1.25 million (£750,000) and possibly as much as $7 million by HarperCollins, has been at the top of US bestseller lists for weeks due to pre-orders of the 1.5 million copies already printed.


<font size="3">Tensions with McCain</font size>

<SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">In it she claims Republican campaign managers forced her and her entourage to wear fancy, expensive clothes which she could not afford rather than the simple ones she preferred.</span>

Mrs Palin elaborates in the book, which is to be published on Tuesday, on the significant tensions between her advisers and those of her running mate, Senator McCain.

• She was particularly upset about having to pay $50,000 (£30,000) in legal bills which she says were directly related to the party’s vetting process for the vice-presidential candidacy.
  
  According to Mrs Palin, she was told that the bills would be paid if they won the election but not if they lost.

Trevor Potter, the McCain campaign’s lawyer, yesterday rejected the charge, saying Mrs Palin was never asked to pay such legal expenses and nor did she ever reveal that her own lawyer had charged her for vetting-related work.

• According to the Associated Press, which obtained a copy of her book, she writes bitterly about being <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">stopped from delivering a concession speech on election night</span>, of being <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">thwarted in rewriting her statement about her daughter’s pregnancy and of how she was generally “bottled up” over what she could say to the media</span>.
  
  Mrs Palin says <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">she was briefed to give non-answers in a televised debate with Senator Joe Biden</span>, the Democrat vice-presidential contender.

<font size="3">On Katie Couric</font size>

She describes Katie Couric, a CBS News anchorman, as “badgering” her in a notorious interview which appeared to reveal Mrs Palin as woefully under-informed and ill-read.

Even if Couric had trouble finding out exactly what she reads nowadays, Mrs Palin says she was a voracious reader in her youth. Her favourites included Orwell’s 1984 and Steinbeck’s The Pearl.

Mrs Palin names few names in her assault although she claims Steve Schmidt, the chief McCain campaign strategist, believed she was not not doing enough preparation on policy issues and speculated that she might be suffering from post-partum depression following the birth of a son with Down’s Syndrome.

[n]Turning to her controversial $150,000 campaign wardrobe bill, Mrs Palin says she did not appreciate the forced makeover[/b] and wonders whether she and her family were so unpresentable that such extreme measures were necessary. She says her family was told the costs were being taken care of, or were “part of the convention”.

In a pre-recorded interview with Oprah Winfrey to publicise the book, Mrs Palin insisted Levi Johnston is still part of the family. He has countered that any attempts at reconciliation are fake.


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