'October Surprise' Over Palin Investigation?
"Likely Damaging" Report on Governor Scheduled for Release Days Before November Election
By BRIAN ROSS and LEN TEPPER
Sept. 2, 2008—
Is the McCain campaign afraid of an 'October surprise' involving vice-presidential pick Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska?
The Alaska state senator running an investigation of Gov. Palin says the McCain campaign is using stall tactics to prevent him from releasing his final report by Oct. 31, four days before the November election.
"It's likely to be damaging to the Governor," said Senator Hollis French, a Democrat, appointed the project manager for a bi-partisan State Senate Legislative Counsel Committee investigation of claims that Palin abused her office to get the Alaska public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, fired.
Palin, who has denied any wrongdoing and has said she has nothing to hide, hired private lawyers on Saturday, the day after Sen. McCain announced her as his running mate.
"Until then, the Governor used state lawyers and everything was fine," said Sen. French.
"That's wrong," said a spokesperson for the McCain campaign, Brian Rogers.
"The attorney was hired by the state Department of Law weeks ago, as part of the official duty to defend the governor," said Roger, and "obviously had nothing to do with either the McCain campaign."
A team of McCain campaign operatives arrived in Anchorage over the weekend "to help coordinate" her vice-presidential campaign, according to a McCain campaign official.
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Losing Strategy....Literally
I am seriously beginning to think that the republicans are intentionally throwing in the towel. The level of mismanagement and the incompetence of the tactical decisions from day to day are too inept to be credible. Now I hear that they will have Bush speak at the RNC convention, while Bristol's
baby daddyboyfriend will be there as well!!!Is there some crisis in the near term that the powers that be know about, and want to have in Obama's lap.
Question for P6, ptcruiser, and others
More than a few political observers and participants say that effective campaigning uses the same skills as effective governing. In McCain's desperate appeal to the broad swathe of retail redneck voters he forgot the other constituencies, especially the Washington based power elite and the opinion makers in large outlet media. At this stage, if you were McCain, would it be worse to press forward with Palin or remove her from the ticket?
Is there some crisis in the
Are you kidding?
How about the Russian assertion of dominance over the old Soviet sphere of influence, a nuclear North Korea (which came about because WE didn't keep our end of the treaty B. Clinton negotiated), the Taliban reestablished in the territory where empires go to die, the collapse of World Trade Organization talks, and the forced economic reorganization that will be compelled if Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac collapse? That's off the top of my head.
if you were McCain ...I'd
...I'd remind people I was a POW.
Losing Strategy....Literally
I am seriously beginning to think that the republicans are intentionally throwing in the towel. The level of mismanagement and the incompetence of the tactical decisions from day to day are too inept to be credible. Now I hear that they will have Bush speak at the RNC convention, while Bristol's
baby daddyboyfriend will be there as well!!!Is there some crisis in the near term that the powers that be know about, and want to have in Obama's lap.
Seriously though, I know
Seriously though, I know you've hear the Conservative talking heads that have said the party would benefit by losing. In this case, if McCain/Palin runs and loses, the only ones left will be true believers, and their dispersed brethern still think like them. They'd be a functional fifth column, sort of like the DLC.
he has no ground game
i don't mean he has a weak one.
he literally had NO ground game
the only ones with ground game in the gop are the religious nuts
that's why he sold out to them and chose their poster girl