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| Quote: | Has anyone else seen this story? It's incredible!
http://heylookhear.com/Image/mccain-new-running-mate
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In article <2rm2f4l2e3u850jvar786h5ik6l9jg8qtr@4ax.com>,
Clay <clay0nline@gmail.com> wrote:
| Quote: | October 12, 2008
By Adam Nagourney and Elisabeth Bumiller
The New York Times
After a turbulent week that included new disclosures about Gov. Sarah
Palin and signs that Senator John McCain was struggling to strike the
right tone for his campaign, Republican leaders said Saturday they
were worried that Mr. McCain was heading for defeat unless he brought
stability to his presidential candidacy and settled on a clear message
to counter Senator Barack Obama.
Again and again, party leaders said in interviews that while they
still believed that Mr. McCain could win over voters in the next 30
days, they were concerned that he and his advisers seemed to be adrift
in dealing with an extraordinarily challenging political battleground
and a crisis on Wall Street.
The expressions of concern came after a particularly difficult week
for Mr. McCain. On Friday night, new questions arose about his choice
of Ms. Palin as his running mate after an investigation by the Alaska
Legislature concluded that Ms. Palin had abused her power in trying to
orchestrate the firing of her former brother-in-law, a state trooper.
“I think you’re seeing a turning point, said Saul Anuzis, the
Republican chairman in Michigan, where Mr. McCain has decided to stop
campaigning. “You’re starting to feel real frustration because we are
running out of time. Our message, the campaign’s message, isn’t
connecting.
Tommy Thompson, a Republican who is a former governor of Wisconsin,
said it would be difficult for Mr. McCain to win in his state but not
impossible, particularly if he campaigned in conservative Democratic
parts of the state. Asked if he was happy with Mr. McCain’s campaign,
Mr. Thompson replied, “No, and he added, “I don’t know who is.
In Pennsylvania, Robert A. Gleason Jr., the state Republican chairman,
said he was concerned that Mr. McCain’s increasingly aggressive tone
was not working with moderate voters and women in the important
southeastern part of a state that is at the top of Mr. McCain’s
must-win list.
“They’re not as susceptible to attack ads, Mr. Gleason said. “I worry
about the southeast. Obama is making inroads.
Several party leaders said Mr. McCain needed to settle on a single
message in the final weeks of the campaign and warned that his
changing day-to-day dialogue a welter of evolving economic
proposals, mixed with on-again, off-again attacks on Mr. Obama’s
character was not breaking through and was actually helping Mr.
Obama in his effort to portray Mr. McCain as erratic.
“The main thing he needs to do, said Vin Weber, a former Republican
congressman from Minnesota, “is focus on a single message a single,
concise or clear-cut message, and stick with that over the next 30
days, regardless of what happens. He’s had a lot of attack lines. But
it’s time to choose.
John C. Danforth, a retired Republican senator from Missouri, said Mr.
McCain should turn his attention mainly to drawing contrasts with Mr.
Obama and “essentially go back to the basics.
“I don’t think it’s enough to talk about earmarks incessantly, Mr.
Danforth said. “He’s made that point. You’ve got to get beyond that
and talk about the very dramatic taxes and spending in the Obama
program.
Even that might not be enough, Mr. Danforth said. “This is a year
where everything that could go in Obama’s favor is going in Obama’s
favor, he said. “Everything that could go against McCain is against
him. It’s absolutely the worst kind of perfect storm.
Mr. McCain’s advisers said they remained confident of victory.
“My sense of where things are: John McCain beat back what was a
political climate that would have snuffed out any other candidate in
the Republican Party, said Nicolle Wallace, a senior adviser. “He’s
beat back every hurdle that was ever placed in front of him.
Mr. McCain acknowledged the challenge Saturday as he campaigned in
Iowa, where President Bush won narrowly in 2004 but where polls show
Mr. Obama with a healthy lead.
“I’d like to remind you that the political pundits have been wrong
several times, Mr. McCain said, “and they’re wrong because we will
win the state of Iowa in November.
Yet there were continued signs of confusion and turmoil in the McCain
campaign, as his aides wrestled with conflicting advice, daunting poll
numbers and criticism from state party leaders increasingly distressed
with the way the campaign has been run.
The advisers said he had been damaged by several rallies last week in
which supporters shouted insults and threats about Mr. Obama,
prompting Mr. McCain on Friday night to chide audience members. The
aides suggested that they were trying to find a balance between
attacking Mr. Obama and painting him as untested and risky without
stirring unruly crowd reactions.
Emotions are raw within the campaign, where Mr. McCain’s top advisers
have voiced frustration at what they said was the news media’s unfair
focus on the rowdy crowds.
“I think there have been quite a few reporters recently who have sort
of implied, or made more than implications, that somehow we’re
responsible for the occasional nut who shows up and yells something
about Barack Obama, said Mr. McCain’s closest adviser, Mark Salter.
The difficulties of the McCain campaign have led some Republican
leaders to express concern that he could end up dragging other
Republicans down to defeat. “If Obama is able to run up big numbers
around the country, the potential for hurting down-ballot Republicans
is very big, Mr. Anuzis, the Michigan party chairman, said.
One sign of that has emerged in Nebraska, where Representative Lee
Terry ran a newspaper advertisement featuring words of support for him
from a woman identified as an “Obama-Terry voter.
In this churning environment, Mr. McCain was getting conflicting
advice from party leaders about what to do. Former Gov. Mitt Romney of
Massachusetts, who was a rival of Mr. McCain for the Republican
nomination, said Mr. McCain, who has offered scattershot proposals on
the economy, should present a broad vision of how he would lead the
country through the economic crisis.
“I’m talking about standing above the tactical alternatives that are
being considered and establish an economic vision that is able to
convince the American people that he really knows how to strengthen
the economy, Mr. Romney said.
But no subject has more divided Republicans than the one that has been
a matter of disagreement in the McCain camp: how directly to invoke
Mr. Obama’s connection to his controversial former minister, the Rev.
Jeremiah A. Wright Jr., and William Ayers, a member of the Weather
Underground who has had a passing association with Mr. Obama over the
years.
In Colorado, a traditionally Republican state that Mr. McCain is
struggling to keep in his column, the party chairman, Dick Wadhams,
urged Mr. McCain to hit the issue hard, arguing that it was fair game
and could be highly effective in raising questions about Mr. Obama in
the final weeks of the campaign. He said he was surprised Mr. McCain
had failed to do so in last week’s debate.
“I think those are legitimate insights into who Senator Obama is, Mr.
Wadhams said. “I do not think it is irrelevant to this election.
But Fergus Cullen, the Republican chairman in New Hampshire, said
Saturday that he thought it would be a mistake for Mr. McCain to go
down that road, warning that it would turn off moderate voters in his
state who have a history of supporting Mr. McCain.
“I don’t think he should be giving into elements of the base who have
been asking him to be going after, using Wright, using Ayers, Mr.
Cullen said. “Think about it as an undecided persuadable voter.
Although Mr. McCain has declared Mr. Wright off-limits, the campaign
has brought up Mr. Ayers. But the campaign appeared to step back a bit
in raising that relationship Saturday. In a rally in Iowa, Mr. McCain
stuck to his usual attacks on the Democratic nominee on taxes, the
financial crisis and housing.
For her part, Ms. Palin appeared to pull back on the sharp jabs at a
fund-raiser in Philadelphia.
“We just want to make sure that in this campaign, that we uphold the
standards of tolerance and truth-telling, she said. “There have been
things said, of course, that have allowed those standards to be
violated on both sides, on both tickets. We want to uphold those
standards, and again it’s not mean-spirited, it’s not negative
campaigning, when we call someone out on their record."
Mr. Cullen, the New Hampshire chairman, said he still thought Mr.
McCain could win his state but acknowledged it would be difficult.
“The national news has not been politically favorable for us in the
last two or three weeks, he said. “He either has to come up with a
way to make the discussion on the economy reflect better on the
Republicans or change the subject to something else.
Mr. Romney referred to his own defeat at the hands of Mr. McCain in
arguing that Mr. Obama should not be packing his bags for the White
House quite yet. “Never count John McCain out, he said. “Who knows?
He has ground to make up. But he makes up ground in a big hurry. He
did it in the primary.
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and SarahCuda?
Clay <clay0nline@gmail.com> wrote in
news:sk70f458hvom69clpcrasg40l89q09v6fn@4ax.com:
| Quote: | Bad news is bad news. Sarah Palin got bad news tonight.
Oh well.
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Palin violated ethics law, inquiry concludes
International Herald Tribune
October 11, 2008
Sarah Palin, the Republican U.S. vice-presidential candidate,
abused her powers as governor of Alaska by pressuring subordinates
to try to get her former brother-in-law, a state trooper, fired,
according to an investigation by the Alaska Legislature released
Friday.
The report concludes that the action was a violation of the Alaska
Executive Branch Ethics Act. It was not immediately clear what
actions the State Legislature would take in light of the findings.
Palin could be censured or the State Legislature could choose not
to act at all.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/11/america/trooper.php
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