Palin Out Of The Loop On Decision To Pull Out Of Michigan
An odd moment on Fox News: Sarah Palin appears to say that she heard about her campaign's decision to pull out of Michigan only today, despite it being reported far and wide across our great land yesterday. She seems to suggest she heard it about it from the newspapers...
"Well, that's not a surprise because, you know, the polls are showing we're not doing as well there evidently as we would like to," Palin said. "But I read that this morning also. I fired off a quick email and said `Oh, come on, you know, do we have to? Do we have to call it there?'"
How sequestered from her campaign's workings is Palin, anyway? To be fair, she has been holed up in debate prep for days. But still, this was a major, major campaign decision. It's odd that she appeared to have heard nothing about it, let alone having been in any sort of discussions about it.
They didn't want to worry her pretty little head about such mundane details.
Not that the McCain campaign could ever be accused of being sexist, or anything, 'cause they've got A WOMAN on the ticket.
October 3, 2008 3:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Exactly. Besides, time spent keeping her up to date on the goings-on of the campaign would be time not spent classically conditioning her to work the word "maverick" into every answer, and they could not afford to lose any time on that project.
October 3, 2008 3:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
I just realized something. Since you listened to the debate on NPR, you missed all those winkety wink starbursts Palin was sending out. Do you feel deprived?
And if you're saying to yourself "Just what the heck is she talking about???", the answer is here (and you may want a barf bag handy. Just sayin'):
Rich Lowry is embarassingly in love
October 3, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Barf bag indeed. On the other hand, it is Rich Lowry we are talking about, so barf bags just go with the territory.
October 3, 2008 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
I, for one, was sad to see him break up with "The War in Iraq"
October 3, 2008 5:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Olberman making wild fun of him. Very humorous.
October 5, 2008 4:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
How To Be A Maverick, For Dummies.
In chapter one, clearly spells out, that in order to be a Maverick, one must never be in the loop.
October 3, 2008 3:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Seeing Palin on Fox was kinda like getting a glimpse into the future. During the debate her performance seemed more like that of the typical Fox News anchor-bimbo reading off the teleprompter. I think it'd be a safe bet the she'll become yet another Fox News "Analyst".
October 3, 2008 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey.... give her a state to work with. And let me see those union folks work her over! But no Todd. She has to do it alone...
October 3, 2008 3:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yeah, do you like the way she says "Todd and I". As in "when Todd and I get elected VP..."
October 3, 2008 3:56 PM | Reply | Permalink
Did you hear her say how when Dear John gets to the White House she'll be in the White House with him????
October 4, 2008 9:47 AM | Reply | Permalink
She keeps telling us all, she's "not an insider". Of even the McCain campaign, evidently.
October 3, 2008 3:51 PM | Reply | Permalink
TPM has another one where she's talking about specific SCOTUS decisions. Sounds very much like she's reading off a teleprompter. What a farce she is!
October 3, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
See my comment above. Driving at lunch I was listening to MPR who was replaying the debate. Hearing her talk without the video was excruciating. She literally sounded like one of those Fox and Friends air-headed bimbos reading the teleprompter; talking in nothing but platitudes. I had to change the channel whenever she came on.
October 3, 2008 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
See, had you watched on TV, you could have been a recipient of one of those starbursts! Rich Lowry tells me other men probably sat up straight after she winked at them, too!
October 3, 2008 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Palin out of the loop - how many punchlines, cheap shots, and one-liners can one person produce?
October 3, 2008 3:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
You report this like it's a bad thing.
I've actually got to defend the McCain camp, here. Palin is not someone you want to have walking around with any more information than she needs. The fact that they realize that shows that they haven't quite jumped the shark completely yet.
If I was running that campaign, Palin would be doing a lot of jogging. Like, all day.
October 3, 2008 3:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Word.
October 3, 2008 3:55 PM | Reply | Permalink
Things For Sarah To Do Today
1) Jog
2) Breakfast
3) Go play on Fox News
4) Jog
5) Lunch
6) Smile, wave, "Maverick, maverick, maverick."
7) Beddie Bye
October 3, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
8) Send out winkety wink starbursts to all the conservative commentators out there.
October 3, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
9) Oh, right, I also have a special-needs infant...hmm, where did I put him down again?
October 3, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
Cannot believe it. You made me laugh out loud.
October 5, 2008 4:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Get back to us when you have a story about her being IN the loop.
October 3, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jesus, she's intentionally dropping her Gs. It's so freaking obvious...almost as if she's emphasizing the fact. And it's condescending - hey, if I talk like a boob, people will like me, because we know they're all boogs and boobs like boobs!"
She's insufferable. I can't wait for her to go away.
October 3, 2008 3:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
What are boogs? I know about the other things . . .
October 3, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Boogs are actually the Arctic version of boobs. They are native to Alaska.
October 3, 2008 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Muslim Arctic boobs are called boogiaks. Not sure if Cokie Roberts knows about this, though.
October 3, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Man, I didn't know about "bosniacks" either and I feel dumb but at least I'm not running for Veep. LOL!
October 3, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
The saying that "Eskimos have 100 words for snow" isn't true. But they do have 100 words for breasts.
October 3, 2008 4:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
We have way more than that . . .
October 3, 2008 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
I had a visceral revulsion to this woman the first time I saw her speak. I usually don't have reactions like that.
Oh, yes I do . . .
October 3, 2008 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
ah but think of all the people who had wished to see her in Michigan. This will be very hard for them to take.
October 5, 2008 4:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
If she's not....um....important enough to share campaign strategy, how many policy decisions will she be a party to? This is yet another inditement of McCain's piss poor judgment.
October 3, 2008 3:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
indictment
....need more caffeine....
October 3, 2008 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
"piss poor judgment".
Well, what can you expect from a "reanimated corpse"?
: )
October 3, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Schmedley - she has clearly stated that she and John have lots of heavy duty discussions on different things. You are just like all the other east coast elites - spending all your time at whimpy soccer games. If you had the view of Russia that Palin had you'd be talking different too.
October 3, 2008 4:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
Daanng - spendin' and talkin'.
October 3, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
So I guess this would then fall into the category of things McCain hasn't asked for her judgment on. Hmm. I'm wondering which category is more full.
http://pufferfish.typepad.com/
October 3, 2008 3:59 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmmmmmmm how about this one?
"Of course Palin wasn't in the loop in discussions of pulling out of Michigan early. If you look at her record on sex education in Alaska, you'll realize she doesn't believe in pulling out early at all."
October 3, 2008 4:00 PM | Reply | Permalink
Poor little dupe. They probably don't tell her a thing.
I'd bet five bucks they don't even give her air fare home once the election's over.
October 3, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Off-topic: Wasn't Palin supposed to release her tax returns today?
October 3, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think they got another extension to Oct 6.
October 3, 2008 4:11 PM | Reply | Permalink
She seems more confident in that interview - maybe she's buzzing from not royally screwing up the debate. I guess it is a relief that the pressure is off of her - she's been cramming for the debate almost since she was put on the ticket.
October 3, 2008 4:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, of course she's more confident....it's an interview with Fox News. She probably got the questions beforehand.
October 3, 2008 5:44 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain has no more respect or regard for her than he does for other women; he is a true misogynist. He chose her to ignite the base, and to energize his campaign. You can bet that if he won (holy shit!) he would ignore her and she could stay in Alaska for all the responsibility she would have -- until he keeled over anyway.
When he said he has relied on her judgment "many times in the past" it just shows that he really doesn't care what he says. It is such a patently false statement, but I didn't hear the follow-up: "What exactly, specifically WAS her advice on that energy issue, Senator?"
October 3, 2008 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Or better: What was the energy advice you gave to Senator McCain, Ms Palin?
October 3, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
It also proves that she has no self-respect and is willing to be summarily dismissed by the people who are using her.
Wouldn't any rational, self-respecting person be upset that not only did they not consult her on the decision to withdraw from Michigan - they didn't even TELL her. How degrading.
October 3, 2008 5:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
A very true statement, regarding his misogyny. Surprising how people miss that.
October 5, 2008 4:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain isn't retreating; he's just advancing in a different direction (off a cliff).
October 3, 2008 4:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ow, poor Sarah....she didn't want to answer Katie's questions because she was "annoyed". It's OK, Sarah - we forgive you and we're sorry we ever thought you were a willfully and gleefully ignorant wacko.
October 3, 2008 4:04 PM | Reply | Permalink
Being annoyed at Katie Couric will go over as well as being annoyed with Lassie.
October 3, 2008 4:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Easy for you to say, you didn't live next door to lassie. Damn dog yapping all the time!
October 3, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
So that is why she is so annoying?
October 3, 2008 4:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
My neighbor dozed off in front of his TV, last night. When he woke up, he though that his singing fish was winking at him; it scared the hell out of him. I rushed over to check it out. Turns out it was the debate on his TV, and it was Sarah Trout Mouth doing the winking.
October 3, 2008 4:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
OT: From the front page.
So, she studied her Supreme Court cases.
One thing: she brings up an eminent domain case.
She talks about how precious private property rights are and how she disagreed that the Court sided with the government instead of property owners.
Didnโt she threaten to seize the private land on which she built her Wasilla sports complex via eminent domain?
October 3, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
That's a bad liberal question.
October 3, 2008 4:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry, Sarah. *wink
October 3, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
I'm just not getting any starbursts over here, HyperRevue.
October 3, 2008 4:16 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hey, my winky starbursts never came through!
Were they just on HD or what?
Better get one of them converter boxes.
October 3, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
You forgot "gotcha". It's a bad liberal "gotcha" question. Or is it only a "gotcha" question if it's asked by a voter in a sandwich shop? I'm so confused...
October 3, 2008 5:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hmmmmmmmm how about this one?
"Of course Palin wasn't in the loop in discussions of pulling out of Michigan early. If you look at her record on sex education in Alaska, you'll realize she doesn't believe in pulling out early at all."
October 3, 2008 4:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
Why do we even try to talk about her as a real candidate for anything?
October 3, 2008 4:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
I realize that Alaska is detached from the mainland. But did this candidate just crawl out of a hole? She doesn't even seem to know that it's bad for her to admit she knew nothing about the Michigan pull out. I now see why Palin couldn't even answer Couric's throw-away question about her reading material.
October 3, 2008 4:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, Sarah says she and Todd can make Michigan work, gosh darnit.
They obviously do not consider her important enough to keep in the loop and even when she isn't in the loop, she still doesn't help them.
Who's minding the shop over there? Its like in the Civil War in the trenches and the Union Army finally decides to attack the Rebel lines and they find out that they had just a few companies left trying to make it look like divisions...
October 3, 2008 4:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
Unfortunately, the IDIOT'S GUIDE TO DAILY NEWS didn't "brief" ol' Sarah on McCain's plans to bail out (no pun) of Michigan.
Had the Wasilla Elementary Newsletter had it posted, she'd sooooo be in the know!
You betcha!
October 3, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Have you noticed that the announcer calls her the "Democratic nominee for vice president?"
October 3, 2008 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, by the way, did anyone catch on CNN earlier today that Todd Palin's suddenly gaining an interest in politics? Seems if Sarah makes it to the White House, he wants to run for the Senate on her coat tails!
Nothing like screwing the boss to get to the top, eh??
October 3, 2008 4:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Well, he'll get the Secessionist vote at least. Or, would that just be traitorous to the secessionists?
The Palins are a gift that keeps on giving...just when you think you are in the 21st century, BANG! they send you back to 1850s South Carolina.
October 3, 2008 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is that even legal?
October 3, 2008 4:28 PM | Reply | Permalink
In the Muhlenberg tracking poll on PA, (Obama +10 - whoohoo), favorability rating over unfavorability just before the debate:
Obama +18
Biden +21
McCain +2
Palin -5
October 3, 2008 4:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ouch. I guess those starbursts were not quite starbursty enough...
October 3, 2008 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
I would be beyond sickened to my stomach...frickin' MORTIFIED...if the Palin's became the Clinton's of the Republican Party!
OH My FRICKIN' GOD!!
No country can be THAT stupid!!! Oh wait...2000...re-elected in 2004...OH MY GOD!! We are that stupid!!!
October 3, 2008 4:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
When they first told me, I said, "Say it ain't so! The heck do ya mean?" Doggone it, my first dude and I will be happy to strap on our parkas and visit Michigan and chat with those folks who make those car thingees. See, up in Alaska, we use snow machines - Todd's a champion snow machine racer, don'tcha know. O yah...we'll sit down with these folks around their kitchen tables and say, "Darn it if we aren't angry at those greedy guys runnin' Wall Street, takin' you for a ride. But John McCain is a maverick and when he, Todd and I are in the White House, we're goin' to reform it all, fershure!" Can we win Michigan? You betch'ya we can! Wink. Oh, wait...was I not supposed to read that part? I was supposed to actually blink? Oh, goshed darned it. Well, I screwed it up. Can I stop talking like right-wingers caricature of an "average middle American" now?
October 3, 2008 4:29 PM | Reply | Permalink
What's sad is that I read that with her voice in my head. pardon me whilst I go to throw up my lunch. winksies!
October 3, 2008 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain campaign needs to park her in Alaska to try to hold onto the Last Frontier of Maverickness.
October 3, 2008 4:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
Can someone please find the link I saw this morning from TMZ about a group of female voters in South Beach, FL who unanimously told a local news network reporter in the room last night after the debate they're voting for Palin...because (a) the shout out she gave to the kids in Alaska, and (b) Todd's "a hottie"??
One even said she's voting for her because she loved what Palin did with her hair! Why does Greg and HuffPo not have this on their sites???
I AM NOT KIDDING! I saw it this morning and I can't find it anymore.
October 3, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
"Twits Found In Florida!" -- it just ain't news.
October 3, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Last night on BBC news, ChiJoe, they interviewed some republicans that claimed Joe Biden had too many facts and points. They like Palin because she speaks from her heart.
This is what they heard in England - on the airwaves - all over. This is what they heard about how Americans choose to vote for thier President and Vice President. Urrrrrrrrrrrrgghghhghghhghhhhh!!!!
October 3, 2008 4:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
Dude, facts are for sucks!
October 3, 2008 5:03 PM | Reply | Permalink
The really surprising thing to me is the idea that she read a newspaper. I'm skeptical...
October 3, 2008 4:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Jonze,
Is that legal, you ask? How the hell did "W" and Jeb get into politics and higher office? Daddy's coat tails!
Like in the working world, it's no longer what you know, it's WHO you know that lands you a job!
This country is becoming more morally bankrupt with each day...and you can blame Republicans for noticing that and taking full advantage...hence SARAH PALIN, who he calls "The future of the Republican Party."
October 3, 2008 4:37 PM | Reply | Permalink
"He" being McCain...oops above.
October 3, 2008 4:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
Since she has a "vast variety of sources where (she) gets (her) news," you'd think she'd know!
October 3, 2008 4:41 PM | Reply | Permalink
Oh, snap!
October 3, 2008 4:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
The RNC knows McCain is toast. This is all about getting her some breathing room from the McCain camp while it goes down the drain.
Here's the deal. The GOP is in for a bloody power struggle over the next two years. Now that she didn't tank the debate outright, Sarah Palin will have her own base within the Republican party. This means, if the powerbrokers over there can get to her and mold her into what they want her to become (think Bush, and his run for Texas governor right up to his Presidential run), she'll be a powerful tool for the decision makers to hold onto the reigns of power after the bloodletting. She's perfect. She's a perfect mix of populist appeal and lack of knowledge or policy.
I predict that we're going to start seeing more and more of stuff like this, with Palin publicly commenting on McCain's decisions and policy positions in ways that separate her from him and his run. She's about to go John Edwards on McCain.
October 3, 2008 4:45 PM | Reply | Permalink
Agreed. The neocons have a blankslate in her on which to imprint their screwd up view of the world and the Christianists are her natural base. It'll be civil war between her factions and fiscally conservative, socially moderates in the party.
October 3, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Yep, and I'm guessing she'd have been kept just as far out of the loop in McCain's increasingly hypothetical administration. Just what you want in the Imperial Cheney branch if the worst happens: a complete blithering twit who's been kept totally out of the loop.
October 3, 2008 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
She was in the bunker, prepping for the debate. She was probably only allowed to come above ground to put Trig to bed at night. At like midnight.
October 3, 2008 5:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
The report on Troopergate due on Oct. 10 is going to end all that. Revelations that she & Todd threatened to cancel the state contract for the company that administers worker comp. claims unless Trooper Wooten's claim was denied will finish her off, as will all the other nasty details that will come out. The sign seen at the anti-Palin rally in Alaska the other day "Sarah, I can see the end of your political career from my house" says it all.
October 3, 2008 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Is anybody really surprised? She was only a symbol/pawn to begin with. I'd say the McCain campaign has very little regard or respect for her. Besides, I think they can see the handwriting on the wall -- they are going to lose....so why bother going to all the effort to keep her informed?
October 3, 2008 5:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Respect for a running mate -- sounds like a good reason, if they respected her. I'm sure it must not have felt very good from her end of the campaign business.
October 5, 2008 4:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Newspapers? Are ya SURE?
October 3, 2008 5:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's not the polls stupid Cow...It's that; Crash is so toxic that you can't get any volunteers to show up to work ...in the offices you already paid for.
Sheesh, Republicans are so incompetent, they can't even do a Hurricane right.
October 3, 2008 5:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
bet she read it online on Red State or something equally wingnutty
she doesn't know how to read the dead-tree stuff
October 3, 2008 5:52 PM | Reply | Permalink
She read it in the newspapers? Which ones? Oh, all of them...
October 3, 2008 5:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
tomorrow's headline:
McCain Pulls Out; Palin Left Dissatisfied and Disappointed.
i'd be worried if i were cindy ...
October 3, 2008 7:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's 200 words. (At least that's what I learned when my kids were in school there :) And, no, they didn't learn about how many words there were for boobs.)
October 3, 2008 8:05 PM | Reply | Permalink
Just how dumb is Fox News?
This idiot thinks that Sarah Palin is the Democratic candidate for VP.
October 3, 2008 8:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
How can you keep them down once they have seen Washington, and all the wealth, and fame, it can help one obtain?
I would have thought that Sarah would have waited until after Obamas innauguration to start the back stabbing...I mean out maneuvering her maverick running mate. So when they lose she will say I told them to..., or I knew...
Will Sarah now use her last few weeks in the spotlight to burnish her creds with the party faithful ( who love her, and only "tolerate" McCain ) and only talk about herself?
She's an opportunist in the purest form. There will no doubt be a book deal, and she will play this for all it's worth.
October 3, 2008 9:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think they already knew what the hockey mom's position on pulling out was.
www.WilyTrax.com
October 3, 2008 10:54 PM | Reply | Permalink
I notice she mentioned that she was 'tapped' several times in the debate. Maybe that is how she keeps getting jobs in politics, by getting that ass tapped.
October 4, 2008 3:12 PM | Reply | Permalink
Sounds as if Palin is quite out of the loop and this is what McCain thinks of Palin --not much.
October 5, 2008 4:31 PM | Reply | Permalink