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McCain Campaign Stuff

Gonad

Gonad

DON'T FUCK WITH MY TITLE BITCH
Here is one piece:

A few days before the convention, McCain told his top aids that he was going to pick Lieberman. They were excited. This is who they wanted from the beginning. McCain had told them he would run on a ticket where he would promise to serve one term, and where he would govern as someone who wanted to make sure people knew that he would close the door to no one.

A major staffer came to them and informed them if they did that, there would first be a floor fight. They would rally delegates to oppose the nomination, and McCain would be forced to accept Huckabee. The candidate can put forward thier nomination for VP, but they have no power over the floor vote, they can vote however they wish.

Such an act would have doomed him, he believed. More then that, it would have doomed his party. Furious, there was a time where they looked for people that he had personally met and that he thought would be someone that could not be brought to a floor vote. He actually did like Palin. He didn't hate her, and early on, he thought she would be a perfect pick for a cabinet position. But when given choices of who he could go to the floor with without a fight, she was the only one they felt they could chose who would not take the (R) party exactly where he did not want to go..

As time went on, there were ads brought their way that they refused, passed, only to find them running elsewhere as the RNC.

In middle October, an ethics investigation of Palin was leaked to the press. The RNC thought that it was "dirty pool" by the left. But in fact, it was a top staffer on the McCain staff still furious over the force down the throat.

They were fired, that day. The next day, McCain hired him back, in person, and let all of his staff know he'd never fire anyone for telling the truth.

The day he appeared in Michigan and someone in a town hall inferred that Obama was a terrorist? McCain rebutted it and was booed. He boarded the plane and told his advisors he'd be "damned" if he'd spend another penny in a state where the only thing that was going on was driving out the racists to vote for him.

And let's just say, the concession phone call may be one for the history books, and contained the phrase: "I will be one of your most fervent advocates".

After talking for two hours, I really got the feeling that by Early October McCain had 'checked out' of his own campaign; his own staff was intentionally with his knowledge leaking information that damned those around him.

They can talk about how it's lack of discipline, but what he really did may have been the greatest thing ever for the Republican Party. He killed his own party's war machine that was ready to run some truly devastating ads by threatening them. He wouldn't let staff who told the truth, even when it hurt, be fired.

The public image of a campaign is one thing.. but knowing what I know, I realize there is no level of campaign discipline that could have contained the brewing Party Vs. their own nominee fiasco that went on. No candidate has that kind of power, money or resources. And it's a shame, because now I wonder how the campaign he wanted to run would have went.
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NEWSWEEK has also learned that Palin's shopping spree at high-end department stores was more extensive than previously reported. While publicly supporting Palin, McCain's top advisers privately fumed at what they regarded as her outrageous profligacy. One senior aide said that Nicolle Wallace had told Palin to buy three suits for the convention and hire a stylist. But instead, the vice presidential nominee began buying for herself and her family—clothes and accessories from top stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus. According to two knowledgeable sources, a vast majority of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who was shocked when he got the bill. Palin also used low-level staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards. The McCain campaign found out last week when the aides sought reimbursement. One aide estimated that she spent "tens of thousands" more than the reported $150,000, and that $20,000 to $40,000 went to buy clothes for her husband. Some articles of clothing have apparently been lost. An angry aide characterized the shopping spree as "Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast," and said the truth will eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.

A Palin aide said: "Governor Palin was not directing staffers to put anything on their personal credit cards, and anything that staffers put on their credit cards has been reimbursed, like an expense. Nasty and false accusations following a defeat say more about the person who made them than they do about Governor Palin."

McCain himself rarely spoke to Palin during the campaign, and aides kept him in the dark about the details of her spending on clothes because they were sure he would be offended. Palin asked to speak along with McCain at his Arizona concession speech Tuesday night, but campaign strategist Steve Schmidt vetoed the request.
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I would not have voted for McCain with Huckabee as his VP either.

The PotUS should know what the VPotUS is doing - especially if it is something he would find offensive.

McCain has no future as a viable PotUS candidate.
 
I haven't found it on YouTube yet, but here's the link:

http://hotair.com/archives/2008/11/06/video-fox-news-drops-another-load-of-dirty-laundry-on-palin/

This is a clip from yesterday's O'Reilly Factor, and it is replete with gossip. I really like the way O'Reilly is handling the information, reminds me of when I used to watch him in 1998. That being said, all of this gossip is really fun, and the reporter's statements about McCain's Foreign Affairs Advisor leaking info, being fired, and being hired back on really compliments the first rumor I posted.
 
No one cares what happened any more you know. It's done and we've moved on. The point's been proven beyond words.

Gonna be a different world :bigass:
 
Gonad said:
IThis is a clip from yesterday's O'Reilly Factor, and it is replete with gossip. I really like the way O'Reilly is handling the information, reminds me of when I used to watch him in 1998.
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Can you think of anyone who should be spared a robust neckfucking LESS than Bill O'Reilly?
 
Alyssum said:
No one cares what happened any more you know. It's done and we've moved on. The point's been proven beyond words.
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Are you kidding? IT'S SCHADENFREUDE TIME, BABY!

FILL ME WITH PROCESS STORIES AND LET ME LICK ALL THOSE JUICY REPUGNICAN TEARS BEING SHED! OH THE SALTY GOODNESS! YES! YESSSSSSSSSSSS!

That's what happens during the transition for whichever party that wins after being out of power for an extended time. Happened in 1980, 1992, and 2001. And we'll continue to have news analysis up till about Christmas, and then it will die down until the first-hand tell-all books start coming out next year.
 
I read the Newsweek article and my favorite part is where, after the first debate, McCain's aides asked him why he never once looked at Obama and McCain responded "You told me not to!" It was a humorous miscommunication between McCain and his aides, and it solves the mystery (for me.) I love McCain; I wish I lived in AZ so I could vote for him for senate.
 
This was my favorite line (referring to Karl Rove)

At a private gathering in Aspen, Colo., in the summer of 2007, a friend asked Cindy whether she would stab Rove in the back if he walked by. "No," she answered, "I'd stab him in the front."
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