Former Palin aide: "This set off a nerve for sure with a lot of people..." Oh, you betcha.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

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."

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."



http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/03/26/palins-prayer-remark-angers-former-staffers/

[Manifestor_of_Light]

1. She missed the part about going into the closet.

[amitten]

2. Still trying to distance herself from McCain. Nice loyalty, huh...?

Typical Republican. It's every man for himself, and fuck the people who helped you along the way.

[rvablue]

11. Can we solely blame that disposition on Republicans. Seems to just be self-serving loser. We had

one too: Joe Lieberman!

They are in it for themselves and don't care about anyone else.

Wonder if the GOP will smarten up like the Dems did in 2004 and realize what a complete egomanical narcissist she is.

[Webster Green]

3. Here's a prayer: Please God, make this dumbass bitch STFU

Amen! :puke:

[libodem]

4. Trailer Trash

[cliffordu]

14. I live in a trailer. She's pure subdivision scumbag trash.

[libodem]

19. Yes my dear

but I'm sure you aren't a low life. She has that Elvis (even though you are rich you still don't have good taste) kind of hillbilly charm. Ok hill billies....I meant no insult to you...:)

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. I can see her irrelevance from my house.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

6. If you get a chance,

catch Rachel Maddow's discussion of this event with Ana Marie Cox on tonight's Rachel Maddow Show.

It was hilarious.

[MrModerate]

7. Lady, god *wanted* you to lose . . . anything else would clearly have been . . .

A victory for satan.

[MO_Dem]

10. Amen!

:woohoo:

[panader0]

8. testify!!

[Kool Kitty]

9. They probably weren't opposed to praying with you, dear-

they just didn't want to hold your hand. They probably were afraid that stupidity like yours was contagious.

[MrModerate]

12. Unfortunately for them, it was already too late . . .

They were infected by then. And now it's spread throughout the 'Lican party.

[Ilsa]

13. They already know that backstabbing runs amok in the GOP. nt

[alfredo]

17. they saw her picking her nose.

[MonteLukast]

15. Call the waaaahmbulance

"Aww, nobody want to pway wit me!"
;pouting smiley;

[Mz Pip]

16. I guess Sarah must believe

that if only someone would have held her hand and prayed with her she would have not been compelled to give such a winky, flirty debate performance.

Instead she would have been brilliant and stunning instead of snarky and lame.

[Marr]

18. Palin's prayer comment sums up the snooty, phoney attitude I saw in so many

Christians back home. They *use* religion as a means of glorifying themselves and attacking others. It's sickening, but it's exactly the sort of thing I'd expect from a woman like Sarah Palin.