2008 Election

Good for Barracuda.

By Maegan Carberry ⋅ October 27, 2008 ⋅   Email this post ⋅  Digg This ⋅  Share on Facebook ⋅  Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Ben Smith exposed today what I’ve suspected for some time: Palin is pissed at her handlers and is going to go rogue through election day. From the Politico story:

“‘The campaign as a whole bought completely into what the Washington media said — that she’s completely inexperienced,’ said a close Palin ally outside the campaign who speaks regularly to the candidate. ‘Her strategy was to be trustworthy and a team player during the convention and thereafter, but she felt completely mismanaged and mishandled and ill advised,’ the person said. ‘Recently, she’s gone from relying on McCain advisers who were assigned to her to relying on her own instincts.’”

I’m not sure that I’d like to see any of her policies furthered in America’s future, but I would like to see this woman vindicated for the completely condescending way John McCain has treated her in this campaign. Talk about reducing Joe the Plumber into a gimmicky disaster; Palin was his first victim.

Cable news was atwitter today with premature talk of finger pointing with respect to the so-called Republican implosion (I’ll believe it on Nov. 5), but I got a good chuckle out of this quote from Bush campaign alumna and Palin advisor Nicolle Wallace in the aforementioned Politico story, which appears to be relevant on many fronts.

“I am in awe of [Palin's] strength under constant fire by the media,” she said in an e-mail. “If someone wants to throw me under the bus, my personal belief is that the most graceful thing to do is to lie there.”