Palin 'Going Rogue,' McCain Aide Says

[Crabtownboy]

With 10 days to go until Election Day, long-brewing tensions between GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and key aides to Sen. John McCain have become so intense they are spilling out in public, sources say.
Several McCain advisers have suggested to CNN that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin "going rogue." A Palin associate, however, said the candidate is simply trying to "bust free" of what she believes was a damaging and mismanaged roll-out.

"She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone," said this McCain adviser. "She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.

http://news.aol.com/elections/artic...s/225713?icid=100214839x1212176163x1200754213

 

[Bro. Curtis]

Sounds like she just may be what the republican party needs. I'd be nervous too, if I was an inside-the-beltway politician of any party.....

 

[Analgesic]

So... what's the difference between a "rogue" and a "maverick" anyway?

 

[Crabtownboy]

So... what's the difference between a "rogue" and a "maverick" anyway?

Rogue

rogue - noun, verb, rogued, ro⋅guing, adjective
–noun

1. a dishonest, knavish person; scoundrel.
2. a playfully mischievous person; scamp: The youngest boys are little rogues.

Maverick:

a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates.

The two definitions are from www.Dictonary.com

A presidential candidate never wants his/her VP running mate to be either a rogue or a maverick when it comes to following the campaign strategy they want followed.

 

[JamieinNH]

In my opinion, she is playing polictics and setting herself up for a run in 2012 for something... It's what most people would do in her position.

The way I see politicians are always looking for the next gig.... nothing new here...

Jamie

 

[LeBuick]

In my opinion, she is playing polictics and setting herself up for a run in 2012 for something... It's what most people would do in her position.

The way I see politicians are always looking for the next gig.... nothing new here...

Jamie

I agree... She has the far right in her corner that want to see her show leadership. I also don't blame her for not wanting to be sequestered. She is running for VP of the US and they have her in a glass bubble. She wants to let America see her folksy answers which frankly do have drawing power to her supporters.

McCain wants to separate himself from Bush then he shouldn't have Bush folks as her handlers.

 

[tinytim]

I agree... She has the far right in her corner that want to see her show leadership. I also don't blame her for not wanting to be sequestered. She is running for VP of the US and they have her in a glass bubble. She wants to let America see her folksy answers which frankly do have drawing power to her supporters.

McCain wants to separate himself from Bush then he shouldn't have Bush folks as her handlers.

Exactly.. Mccain is losing because he didn't unleash the baracuda!

Palin 2012... after 4 yrs of Obama, this nation will need a pitbull with lipstick to straighten out socialists~!

 

[JustChristian]

So... what's the difference between a "rogue" and a "maverick" anyway?

The difference is a rogue isn't playing for their own team. She's playing for herself only. She must actually believe these people who are saying she will run for President in 2012. That would be a Democrat victory unlike it's seen since JBJ blew away Barry "Nuclear Holocaust" Goldwater.

Here's the link to the full CNN story:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html

 

[LeBuick]

Exactly.. Mccain is losing because he didn't unleash the baracuda!

Palin 2012... after 4 yrs of Obama, this nation will need a pitbull with lipstick to straighten out socialists~!

In my view she has a few hurdles to overcome before 2012. She knows she is only a drag on the ticket because of how the campaign was run. You can see her dodging her handlers which means she might be picking up the attitude of being bigger than the whole. This will work against her if she does. She still need the parties leadership no matter how popular she is. You can't walk on people no matter how poor a job they did getting you where you are. That is a closed community and reputation amongst the "little people" means everything.

She also has trooper gate and now the two new allegations to overcome. The side against her was greatly benefited by the "liberal media" and she didn't make any friends by continually thumbing her nose at them.

She has to return to Alaska and be a good Governor or she will be voted out in two years. The seclusion and solitary life they knew has been disturbed and some want their privacy back. If that means getting rid of their new superstar then so be it. They are isolationist for the most part.

Most of all, she has to make sure this fame doesn't cause her to self-destruct. She went from Mayor of 9K to Gov or 600K to rallies all across the country of people wearing Sarah teeshirts which could get to the average persons head. Not saying it will happen to her but she can't forget what goes up must come down.

She is going to get book deals, movie deals and offered many jobs and perks for endorsements. Her stamp is gold. Some people handle this better than others.

 

[OldRegular]

Why would anyone believe anything the Clinton News Network said about a Republican. Also an unnamed source is always suspect.

 

[just-want-peace]

That would be a Democrat victory unlike it's seen since JBJ blew away Barry "Nuclear Holocaust" Goldwater.

This would of course be the same Goldwater, would it not, of which it was said, "They told me that if I voted for Goldwater we would go to war in Vietnam. Sure enough, I voted for Goldwater and we went to war in Vietnam."

 

[righteousdude2]

I Sure Hope So!!!

It would be great if Palin and McCain would both go "rogue."

 

[LeBuick]

It would be great if Palin and McCain would both go "rogue."

I think they have, McCain also lashed out Bush and his own party:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/23/mccain-lambastes-bush-years/

"We just let things get completely out of hand," he said of his own party's rule in the past eight years.

In an interview with The Washington Times, Mr. McCain lashed out at a litany of Bush policies and issues that he said he would have handled differently as president, days after a poll showed that he began making up ground on Sen. Barack Obama since he emphatically sought to distance himself from Mr. Bush in the final debate.

To the point where his own party lashed back at him;

“Lashing out at past Republican Congresses instead of Pelosi and Reid, and echoing your opponent's attacks on you instead of attacking your opponent, and spending 150,000 hard dollars on designer clothes when congressional Republicans are struggling for money, and when your senior campaign staff are blaming each other for the loss in The New York Times [Magazine] 10 days before the election, you’re not doing much to energize your supporters. The fact is, when you’re the party standard-bearer, you have an obligation to fight to the finish. I think they can still win. But if they don’t think that, they need to look at how Bob Dole finished out his campaign in 1996 and not try to take down as many Republicans with them as they can. Instead of campaigning in Electoral College states, Dole was campaigning in places he knew he didn’t have a chance to beat Clinton, but where he could energize key House and Senate races. I think you’ll find these sentiments shared by MANY of my fellow Republican strategists.”

I don't think anyone wants to go down claiming ownership of the ship...