Palin says voters 'irritated' by robocalls

[steve2470]

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/10/20/palin-says-voters-irritated-by-robocalls-2/

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado (CNN) – All of a sudden, Sarah Palin is eager to meet the press.

John McCain’s running mate took questions from her press corps for the second time in three days late Sunday after flying into Colorado Springs. But Palin was not completely on message.

Wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt and standing on a breezy tarmac, Palin said that if she had her way, the McCain campaign and the Republican National Committee would not be flooding battleground states with automated phone calls tying Barack Obama to former radical William Ayers, as they have done over the last week.

Several top Republicans, including Senators Susan Collins and Norm Coleman, have condemned the tactic. Asked about those criticisms, Palin at first dismissed the matter as "inside baseball stuff" and said it's "some of the campaign top brass’s call on that."

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[Lochloosa]

1. "some of the campaign top brass’s call on that."

Hey, Sarah, you are supposed to be the "top brass". But you have not figured that out yet, have you. Give Joe a call. He'll fill you in.

Window dressing.

[Xipe Totec]

4. She's the "talent"

the talking head reading from the teleprompter in media-speak.

[glowing]

2. Sounds like Sarah is throwing the campaign under the bus.. I see a split

and a book or talking to the press after this denouncing the campaign that was waged and how they turned her against the things she would have like to say.. I think Mika is actually right about this, she's NOT going away anytime soon.

[mwb970]

7. She'll get rich from all this.

Republicans only care about power and money. We won't give her the former, but she'll rake in plenty of loot!

[MessiahRp]

10. She's been doing this for awhile...

Remember how she said she didn't know the campaign was pulling out of MI and she said if she was running it she would have stayed in? Or how about when she said if she were running the campaign they would hit Obama harder on Ayers and Rev. Wright?

The Neo-cons are purposely setting her up for 2012 and because they know McCain is going to lose they want to keep her pristine and clean from whatever drubbing the party gets this November. It won't be her fault that the McCain camp used such a losing strategy... see she told you what she would have done.

Doesn't this BTW, reek of what Joe Lieberman did to Al Gore? Undercutting him by saying "if I ran the campaign"?

He did this exact same thing during the recount on Meet The Press and screwed us on validation of overseas military votes that were suspiciously unmarked and gave Bush a huge advantage.

Rp

[KSDiva]

11. I'm looking forward to reading that book

I think if she DOESN'T break away a bit like this her career is over. I may not agree with her on just about anything, but I think it's fair to say that the McCain campaign would throw this woman (that THEY chose to pluck from relative obscurity) under the bus for their loss. HE picked her, HIS people have used her as a puppet (notice that her scripted and unscripted opinions differ frequently) and I think they plan to chuck her directly under the old Straight Talk Express.

Like I said, I don't agree with her on anything, but if she wants a career post-November 2008, she needs to step away from the old, wrinkly white guy. Even a right-wing fundie doesn't deserve what's coming at her, I fear.

(I think she'd kinda be fun as a pundit, actually. She has no brains but at least has prescence!)

[Solly Mack]

3. Palin is distancing herself from her own campaign (and McCain)

as she's number 2 and running on, and with, the McCain campaign.

[Democat]

5. Palin is not "top brass" in the campaign?

Maybe we should ask Todd?

What a mavericky independent woman she turned out to be! :rofl:

[cornermouse]

6. She's right about that.

I don't know about you, but I figure that if someone doesn't have the courtesy to call me and put a real live human being on the other end of the phone they're being rude and I don't have to listen. I always hang up when it starts. As far as I'm concerned robocalls are just another way to funnel money to cronies and other political vermin.

[Doctor_J]

8. When will we hear "Governor Barbie does not speak for the campaign"

:eyes:

[Doodler71]

9. Who is running this show?

"Top brass's call on that?"

GMAB

That's just great. Yes, because putting America first is having puppet politicians with others behind the scenes pulling the strings.

[paparush]

12. Laying the groundwork for "Palin 2012 - Jesus Wants a Republican"

or some such BS
:puke: