Palin's "nobody I could find that I wanted to hold hands with and pray" comment angers staffers.

[jefferson_dem]

Palin's prayer remark angers former staffers
Posted: 07:34 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

Palin's speech last week has some former aides grumbling.

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Some of Sarah Palin's former campaign aides are frustrated with the Alaska governor for remarking in a lengthy, freewheeling speech that she had refused to pray with them before last October's vice presidential debate.

Palin told the story in a speech to a GOP dinner in Alaska last Friday.

"So I'm looking around for somebody to pray with, I just need maybe a little help, maybe a little extra," she said of the moments before the debate. "And the McCain campaign, love 'em, you know, they're a lot of people around me, but nobody I could find that I wanted to hold hands with and pray."

As the audience laughed, Palin noted that she meant no disrespect to the McCain campaign and that ended up saying a prayer with her daughter Piper.

A handful of the McCain campaign staffers who traveled with the former vice presidential nominee nearly every day for two months caught wind of Palin's remarks on Thursday morning — and they aren't thrilled with her quip.

"We all talked this A.M.," said one former Palin aide in an e-mail. "This set off a nerve for sure with a lot of people."

"It's yet another example of the few staff still loyal to Palin questioning their loyalty and ardent defense of her over the several months since the campaign," said the aide, who was granted anonymity to speak candidly about campaign colleagues.

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[mnhtnbb]

1. Classic Palin. The woman is a real bitch.

[MadMaddie]

2. This just proves even more that her religion is not about her

personal journey, her religion is on display for everyone to see. She would have wanted a picture of her holding hands and praying.

Beware of the wolf in sheeps skin.

[FLyellowdog]

4. Exactly!n/t

[Cha]

3. palin should pray 'till she's blue

in the face for the strength not to lie anymore.

[TwilightGardener]

5. None of the staffers were deemed worthy of praying with? Nice. Remind me

why the GOPers love this nasty woman again?

[AllentownJake]

6. To quote your Lord Mrs. Palin

"And whenever you pray, don't be like the hypocrites who love to stand in the synagogues and on the street corners so that they will be seen by people. I tell you with certainty, they have their full reward! Mathew 6:5

But whenever you pray, go into your room, close the door, and pray to your Father who is hidden. And your Father who sees from the hidden place will reward you. Mathew 6:6

[Hieronymus]

7. Her followers don't believe in that quote, or never read it.

[Bluenorthwest]

8. Nor does Rick Warren

or his friends who pray as a public spectacle that is part mask and part bludgeon.

[smoochpooch]

9. Guess she forgot to pray on election day. n/t

[AnnieBW]

10. Whatever happened to praying by yourself?

Do Fundies have to pray in groups or it won't count?

[TwilightGardener]

11. How will we know how holy and devout you are unless you have an audience?

Because really, that's what it's all about. A quiet little prayer inside your own head, well, there's no social or political advantage to that.

[Arctic Dave]

12. I am assuming that "pray with" is a code word for some really

freaky shit. I don't blame them.

[burning rain]

13. There's my lovable little political Christian.

She's saying, "I wanted to pray, but I was just so much better a Christian than everyone else that I didn't want to soil my hands by touching them." I predict it will win her votes in the Republican primary.

[rvablue]

15. Well, if it does, the GOP are a bunch of knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing, non-believing

morons.

It's not about her not wanting to "soil her hands."

It's about her trying to score political points with ridiculous, hypocritical, so-called "evangelicals" who think they know God more than the rest of us.

And it fits right into that sector's M.O.: don't follow the Bible. Make the bible follow my selfish, dimwitted, short-sighted, judgemental and greedy agenda.

So, she might score points with those folks. As for those of us who believe in the word of God and the example of Jesus, she just comes off as the hypocritical, selfish, arrogant, and narcissistic grifter that she is.

[Loki]

14. I think the Republicans have found their female Dan Quayle

classless, clueless and a christian charlatan, all of which promote her to the head of the line for 2012. Please stay out there Sarah, so you can lead what is left of the Republican Party into oblivion.

[Jennicut]

16. Can she just shut up already. I mean she keeps digging a bigger hole for herself.

Or maybe that is a good thing. :evilgrin:

[tanyev]

17. Poor Piper.

Will she make it out with her sanity intact?