Sarah’s uncivil war
Whoever is advising Sarah Palin (and ghost writing that Facebook page) has a clear strategy in mind: scour the landscape for “maverick” opportunities — issues and events that Sarah can be injected into, in order to gain her more attention from the media (which will report on virtually anything she does, every time) and with it, more money, and more name ID among potential 2012 primary voters. Then, Team Sarah waits until the optimal moment, when other people — right wing bloggers, failed former politicians like Fred Thompson and Mike Huckabee, right wing radio and Fox News have laid the groundwork and stoked the crazies, and then she pounces, fires off a Facebook entry, the media turns its entire attention to her, rather than the people who actually generated the jihad, she gets all the credit, and: mo money, mo money, mo money!
It’s a pretty smart plan (and it’s not often that you get to say “smart” and “Sarah Palin” in the same sentence … kind of like the kid in high school who waits for his class project team mates to do all the work, then talks them into letting them give the presentation. Suckers! Come to think of it, she probably did that, too…)
That’s the way it has worked with the New York 23 RINO purge operation, and apparently, Sarah Barracuda also tried to pull a coup on another Republican: John McCain… From the HuffPo:
In “Sarah From Alaska,” two campaign reporters share the behind-the-scenes story of Sarah Palin’s rise to national stardom and surprising resignation.
On CBS’ “Early Show,” authors Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe said there was a “remarkable internal war” at the end of the campaign between Palin and McCain’s teams when the VP candidate was told she could not deliver a concession speech. “Governor Palin tried to create some confusion” so that she would be able to speak, but she ultimately failed. “It really turned into an all-out civil war,” Walshe said. On election night, Palin went back out onstage to take pictures with her family and McCain’s staff was so terrified that she would give a speech after all that they turned out the lights on her.
Conroy and Walshe got copies of Palin’s undelivered concession speech (as well as her victory speech.) If [Obama] governs America with the skill and grace we have often seen in him, and the greatness of which he is capable, we’re gonna be just fine,” she planned to say. But she would also have proclaimed, “It would be a happier night if elections were a test of valor and merit alone.”
Miss Palin obviously began to drink her own Kool-Aid over the course of the campaign, and came to believe that she, and not McCain, should be at the top of the ticket. The fact that today, 7 out of 10 people, including most Republicans, get that she’s unqualified to be president — more than did so during the campaign — is likely of no interest to Sarah and her supporters. All they see is star power, plus a media that really has decided to pretend that she IS a credible future candidate, and which hangs on her every Facebook entry. And it’s clear that she is now exacting her revenge for that final campaign night, not just against McCain, but against the entire GOP establishment, by proving she can cause them to win or lose with just the wave over her magic crazy wand (okay in reality she can’t, but don’t tell that to Politico…) Any money says she runs in 2012. Okay, maybe that’s just wishful thinking…
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