Bruce Benidt
Jon Austin
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Mike KeliherAmerica’s favorite moose hunter (c’mon, do you know any others?) was stepping out a little today, upbraiding the campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan. As the New York Times put it,
Ms. Palin made it clear she had not been consulted about the McCain campaign’s decision to pull its ads and campaign operation out of Michigan, a tacit admission that it could not win there. She had found out the morning of the debate, she said, and fired off an e-mail to campaign brass to let them know she was disappointed.
I think it’s a really, really good thing if Governor Palin takes on more campaign management responsibilities in the last 30 days of the campaign. She has all that executive experience, after all. Maybe she’ll get them back into California, too.
Ms. Palin made her comments in a Fox News interview with Carl Cameron that is a continuation of the “friendly fire” strategy they’ve adopted for her media engagement. It worked well again and – surprise – it turns out that when asked the “What do you read?” and “What Supreme Court decisions do you disagree with?” questions again, gosh darn it she can answer ‘em now. She implies that she could have answered them during the Couric interviews but she was “filtered.”
Right.
I also picked up the repeat of a line from the debate that apparently Ms. Palin has been told to use anytime she finds herself at odds with a McCain position (as she was with Michigan):
Palin said it should surprise no one she disagrees with the McCain on strategy regarding Michigan, saying they are “a team of mavericks. Of course we’re not gonna agree on everything.”
As we used to say in the software business, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature!
- Austin
Filed under: Communications | Tagged: Carl Cameron, Fox News, John McCain, Sarah Palin
Complete speculation, of course, but…do you think that she is beginning to distance herself from the McCain campaign (and a possible significant defeat) with an eye to her independent (of McCain) political future? Making certain that she has sufficient plausible deniability to survive the recriminations of a major loss?
Another way to put it–are the rats deserting this ship?
-PM
I’m pretty sure a bad place to be is between Sarah Palin and something she wants. Reading (alot admittedly) between the lines, she combines ambition with a religously fueled belief in her destiny. That’s a scary combination.
Win or lose, she’s a candidate in 2012. Four years of working the rubber chicken circuit (if McCain/Palin loses, it’ll be interesting to see how many days she spends in Alaska during the second half of her term) will make her much more proficient at the game than she is now (and she’s no slouch now).
- Austin
Hmmmm….. the way you put it makes it all sound familiar…sort of a deja vu all over again?
BTW, anyone here been to see that new movie, “W”?
-PM