Sunday, October 12, 2008
Don't Cry For Her, She's A Pitbull. With Lipstick.
The McCain campaign has been an abject lesson in judgment. Bad judgment. Years from now, the McCain campaign will still be used as a punchline to a myriad of jokes about bad judgment.
The idea to send Sarah Palin to a Philadelphia Flyers game to drop the first puck was merely the latest in a string of judgment calls that have failed the McCain campaign. In a town where Philly fans threw snowballs at Santa Claus and booed Beyonce, did they really think this would go over?
Another example of the bad judgment would be the selection of Palin as a running mate. They couldn't have vetted her too closely, other wise that whole "Troopergate" thing would have popped up. And now Palin ( a 72 year old heartbeat away from the presidency should McCain get elected) has shown that she too can exercise bad judgment by engag(ing) in repeated inappropriate contact with Walt Monegan and other high-ranking officials at the Department of Public Safety, even after Monegan and his peers constantly warned these Palin disciples that the contact was inappropriate and probably unlawful.
The McCain campaign also decided to grandstand on the financial bailout mess, "suspending" it's campaign for no other reason to call Joe Lieberman so McCain could claim he was reaching across the aisle to solve this problem, which, in another exercise of bad judgment, they blamed on "earmarks".
But perhaps the one judgment call that has sealed their fate has been the one to play up a non-existent link between William Ayers and Barack Obama as one where Obama is "palling around with terrorists". While this has played well with inbred Bible Thumping non-readers, even conservatives admit McCain is running a stupid campaign. And using Palin as their attack dog?
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Hey, I saw one person in the audience clapping. So yes, technically it was a "mixed" reaction she got.
Wow... what an amazing video... This makes me wonder, are her rallies like those Bush used to have, where all the people are screened prior to entry? This video shows that at least the people at the Flyers' game seemed to loathe her for the most part. The cheering seemed to be when she was finally getting off the ice.
Her brown-shirt rallies don't seem to be catching on so far, i.e. the anger hasn't been spreading as much as it might. The Ayers thing isn't working, Jerome Corsi's "Obama Nation" book doesn't seem to be making a big difference in the polls despite still being a "bestseller"...
They're pathetic, really.
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