For those interested and willing, I’ve launched what I’m calling ‘Operation Leper’ pledging to turn into political lepers those McCain campaign staffers now smearing Sarah Palin to escape blame.
The larger issue here is not about Palin, but about the mercenary political operatives who have no loyalty to the cause nor to the candidate, only the money. These people must be rooted out, exposed, opposed, and made lepers.
You can sign the petition below:
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Who doesn’t love a good witch hunt!
It’s so ugly when Republicans try destroy their own party.
How sad.
That’s ridiculous! If even half of this stuff is true, we don’t need her as a candidate. She should have been fully vetted so the party could avoid looking stupid. The GOP needs to pick better candidates; our country needs good qualified people! Not some one who is charismatic but is also unqualified and an embarrassment!! She shouldn’t have done these things, not ‘they shouldn’t have told on her.’ Anyone elected to the presidency will have a spotlight shinning on them all the time. She couldn’t even survive the campaign spotlight.
The people who made these allegations (even Campbell Brown said most of the allegations were false) were too busy plotting for 2012 than trying to get McCain elected.
Some think these folks are former Romney people. If so, Romney is off my 2012 list if he rehires even one of them.
Call this a witch hunt or whatever, but if I were a GOP candidate I wouldn’t hire any of these people if they were the last consultants on earth.
The point of this, as I understand it, is not to thrust Palin to the top of the 2012 list but to rid our Party of leeches who undermine the very candidates they work for in order to enhance their own careers. Rather than destroying the Party it makes it better. We need people who act on principle, not what these people have done.
What Buzz said.
Politics is the only profession where you can be a complete and total failure in your job and still be hired on a bigger campaign and make more money the next go-around.
Shep -
You are so right.
Until the GOP gets back to it’s roots, we won’t win. We need good conservative people with VALUES running for office and running the campaign.
Erick,Buzz,Harry
You have no problem with “mercenary political operatives” spinning policy that destroyed the conservative movement via the Bush years?
A perversion of priorities, why not focus on real issues like a petition for GOP office holders guaranteeing fiscal responsibility?
Erik you focus on symbols like Saxby hiring a new “Chief of Staff” to gain your support. Why not guaranteeing the elimination of the bio fuel scam or No Child Left Behind? Why not guaranteeing a no vote on new spending or cutting taxes unless we have money to pay for it?
This topic about Republicans eating their young may send GOPeach over the top. Again.
Probably the same people that thought she would make a great VP candidate that would bring in all of the disgruntled Hillary voters
The real lepers need to be those who participated in the largest Republican growth of Government since LBJ. Bush, Cheney, Hastert, Frist, Gingrich, Rice, Rumsfeld, Santorium, Chertoff, Ridge, Linder, Price, Gingrey, Kingston, Westmoreland, Deal, Boenher, McConnell, Lott, Stevens, Young, ……. And anyone who worked for them.
The were elected under the mantel of “reform” then decided that since they were the ones in power now, reform wasn’t needed.
Chris,
Leave me out of this.
Farris For The Children 10
Not just 10 children. All the Children. Except the unborn. I hate them just to spite GOPeach.
Chris,
Keep in mind that your pal and PP Master Erick Erickson was a BIG (and still is) supporter/ass-kisser of Bush-Cheney and their agenda.
“Politics is the only profession where you can be a complete and total failure in your job and still be hired on a bigger campaign and make more money the next go-around.”
You forgot corporate board member and CEO. I think the problem in both cases is that it is very hard to tie success and failure to personal performance. Also, the people that hire and pay you are the same people that you hang out socially with. Everyone’s in the same club and has the same secret handshakes.
Aha! So that’s the secret to getting rich! I need to start hanging out in clubs….
Most conservatives like me voted for McCain because of the record we saw & heard on Obama. In other words, we know McCain is not conservative, but we definitely know Obama is liberal.
Now he is the most liberal Pres.-elect in our nation’s history.
When Palin was added to the ticket that reinforced the decision we had already made. We need more candidates like her!
We don’t want rhinos or hybrids in the GOP. The hybrid consultants running McCain’s campaign naturally had to blame Palin on the loss.
These consultants are showing their true colors and if McCain continues to not defend Palin then his colors are showing as well.
Sorry, Bill, you missed the boat. Only Ivy League frat boys need apply.
Seriously, though – there was a pretty amazing pair of graphics in the NY Times a few years ago. One was the chart of CEO pay versus stock performance – pure scatter, no correlation whatsoever. Another was a chart of how various compensation boards across the Fortune 500 were intertwined. It was very much a “you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” setup.
I’d link ‘em, but I believe that my subscription wall is different than many others since I have a “university” account.
Can you trust any petition that has Ron Mexico as a signatory?
Kathleen Parker expressed it well in this article.
http://www.slate.com/id/2203800/entry/2204034/
“The Republican Party’s Baghdad Bobism with regard to Palin, a denial so pernicious that party operatives were willing to let her sit a heartbeat away from the presidency in a time of war and financial collapse, revealed what really ails the party. The “P Factor” isn’t a single person but a sickness that will have to be acknowledged and cured…. ”
Chris, you left out the Abramoff-Duke Cunningham- Ralh Reed axis of power/corruption.
Maybe the GOP should resolve to stay out of bedrooms and its preached homophobia, while the folks like Foley, Craig, Gannon, and Haggard embrace homosexuality in the TRUE sense of the word.
Has there EVER been a party so full of hypocrites as one who, even NOW, pushes the LIBERAL Saxby Chambliss – violator of every single tenet of the GOP, instead of purging HIM.
Purging me and Peggy Noonan while LOVING SAXBY. Yeah, THAT is a winning strategy…..snark intended.
As for Palin, she needs more time to be evaluated and to prove herself, like Obama was over the 4 years following his ‘04 keynote address to the Dem convention.
As far as I know, Saxby hasn’t been caught with a live boy. So, he hasn’t completely lost it, Indy.
(waiting for Rugby to weigh-in)
At least Saxby has that much going for him!
Saxby: He’s not Mark Foley.
Right, but are we sure he hasn’t been found in bed with a dead girl?
For the life of me I can’t understand this attachment to Palin. Does anyone really think that she would be a good President? If the blind support for her is based on her commitment to principles, why do conservatives continue to support incumbents that violate the selfsame ideology? Do we only demand ideological purity from candidates and then support incumbents regardless of what they do just to keep seats? If that is the case, no wonder we are in the predicament we find ourselves in now.
Palin in 2012 will crash and burn just as bad as McCain 2008, and rightly so. I was dismayed to read that the planned GOP response to the defeats this cycle is to ‘purge the party of moderates’. Hope you all enjoy minority status for the next thirty years. I will find it difficult to continue to support a party that abandons all logic and reason for feel good populism and sentimentality. People want realistic solutions to the nation’s problems, not knee-jerk decision making ala the previous eight years.
If the party leadership can’t recognize that and wants to continue to be a suicidal echo chamber, consign yourself to one party rule.
I’ve got a rock solid principle to propose the GOP adopt: competency. Wild, I know, but it just might be crazy enough to work…
So Inside Man, are you saying conservatism is dead just lik liberalism is dead?
“She should have been fully vetted so the party could avoid looking stupid. The GOP needs to pick better candidates; our country needs good qualified people!”
Whuh?! We haven’t fully vetted the man who occupies the “Office of the President-Elect” (whatever that is), and you want to complain about Palin? Didn’t a gaggle of democratic lawyers go to Alaska to “vet” her? What did they find?
Spare us the brainless quips. Greedy people in this country want to keep people with true conservative principles out of government. Meanwhile, the ignorant masses are duped by flowery speeches, and the population’s level of consciousness goes no further than American Idol, celebrity award shows, and a chef who screams at everybody.
The success our ancestors worked for and saved for is being looted because we have invested nothing in it. We’re more interested in rumors of drama within a campaign than the principles that guide the candidates. What a disgrace. The People will get what they deserve.
I pray that Palin gets the GOP nomination.
The media really went off on Palin, and her qualifications, but politically I think it was a plus. And who are these MSM sycophants to go after Palin like this without vetting Obama? The fact is, we don’t really know how keen an intellect Obama has because all his college records have been sealed.
as much as i like gov. palin, i think she has been successfully quayled in this election cycle and is probably not going to be a viable candidate for nat’l office in the future–we’ll have to see if she even gets re-elected to the guvship in 2010–her apex would likely be senator from alaska after the 2008 election
I saw her on Gretta the last two nights, and I am not as impressed as I once was. She really needs to prove herself by giving some policy statements, writting a book, op-eds or whatever.
The fact is, the GOP has a weak bench, and you can thank Bush and his cronies for that. Cheney as VP for 8 years? Really? Horrible cabinet selections? Is that a way to build for the future?
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