Topic “mccain campaign”
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2008-11-19
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William Kristol: ‘I’m Kinda Stretched a Little Thin’
[…] about that. It's been a lot of work and I'm kinda stretched a little thin. I'll see." Kristol was asked about Elisabeth Bumiller's story (in his own paper) on the McCain campaign, in which she seemed to out one of his own sources. "It was a little weird," he said, assuring listeners that reporters don't coordinate with the editorial board, and that he cooperated with her as he would any journalist. Thankfully, the election aftermath has held one nice treat for Kristol: He got to see Sarah […] read
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Whitman and Bostock: Free the GOP
[…] that holding on to the “base” at all costs was the way to go. A former speechwriter for President Bush, Matthew Scully, who went on to work for the McCain campaign this year, called the book “airy blather” and said its argument fell somewhere between “insufferable snobbery” and “complete cluelessness.” Gary Bauer suggested that the book sounded as if it came from a “Michael Moore radical.” National Review said its warnings were, […] read
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Clinton At State
Goldfarb, fresh from the McCarthyite frontlines of the McCain campaign, likes the idea: Of course, if Clinton takes the job one expects she’ll be loyal to her new boss. Though it would be extremely entertaining, we probably wouldn't see Madame... read
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Bush's "White Flag Of Surrender"
The SOFA deal reveals just how empty the Bush administration's and McCain campaign's claims were that a fixed deadline for withdrawal meant failure. It was all Rovian politics: it was never serious. Obama was right all along - and Bush... read
2008-11-18
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Making an Invisible Minority Less Invisible
[…] the Bush tactics of fear mongering to support their own candidate. At many rallies, the word "kill" was often shouted. The ultra right wing, which infiltrated the McCain campaign, told us Obama is a (gasp!) Muslim, not understanding that not only isn't Obama a Muslim, but that the Constitution prohibits religion as a test for federal office. Falsely linking Muslim to terrorist, these ultra-patriots said that Obama pals around with terrorists. They said Obama is a thief, a liar, and a […] read
2008-11-17
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Late Edition: Sarah Palin Is So Excited To Work With That Terrorist Lover!
[…] Download | Play (h/t Heather) FSM bless Sarah Palin; she is the gift that keeps on giving to progressive America. Now that she is no longer kept sequestered by the McCain campaign, she bursting out into the media, showing us exactly the results of 25 years of conservative rule. All I can say, is that I think the McCain campaign was smart to keep her away from the cameras as much as they did. Wolf Blitzer asks Palin to comment on the historic occasion of our first African American […] read
2008-11-15
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Could Greg Pollowitz Have Saved the McCain Campaign?
Maybe. I noted yesterday that Rick Davis said Palin expected a soft interview from Couric and that the campaign's guard was down for the interview. Here was Greg Pollowitz warning prior to the interview that it would be a huge mistake to expect anything but a tough grilling. read
2008-11-14
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Palin's Newser
Greetings from Miami, where Sarah Palin has just finished a news conference. It wasn't much of one. She took four questions and spoke for a little under seven minutes, leaving everyone pretty amazed at the brevity of it all. She didn't say anything of great import, but appeared uninterested in talking about the McCain campaign. "You guys in the media are wanting to dissect the past," she said. "As far as we're concerned, the past is the past." read
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McCain Campaign Retrospective
I wrote a piece for the new issue on the McCain campaign, focusing especially on the endgame and the fight over Palin. I know a lot of people are already sick of this stuff, but I wanted to talk to people in the campaign to satisfy my curiosity as much as anything else. The split over Palin, of course, poisoned everything at the end. One of the dividing lines was between her communications team and the policy advisers. The communications team […] read
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"Whack-Job"
Interesting new wrinkle, courtesy of Howie Kurtz. The anonymous McCain campaign source who called Palin a "whack-job" was not a minor figure, according to the great Mike Allen: "I found it illuminating because it came from an extremely senior McCain... read