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07 Nov 2008 02:58 pm
Palin's Mole At The NYT
Scott Horton has more detail on the role of Bill Kristol in blowing up the McCain campaign both before and after the disastrous selection of Sarah Palin. From a McCain adviser:
“In the last six weeks there was a remarkable echo. You could listen to arguments made by folks inside of the campaign who were close to Bill Kristol and then open up the New York Times and read them in Kristol’s columns. It was ‘set Sarah free,’ coupled with an agenda designed to appeal to the religious right and the more raucous elements of the party.
They got their way often enough, and we started noticing that at
many of the Palin functions it was non-stop ‘Sarah, Sarah,’ while John
McCain all but vanished. Were they trying to get McCain elected in
2008, or to help Palin on the way to the Republican nomination in 2012?
You can’t get yourself into a situation in which anyone can credibly
ask that question.”
The bottom line?
What emerges on a close reading is this: Palin and those closest to her
inside the campaign were eager to wage a Lee Atwater-style campaign
designed to demonize Barack Obama, with Palin as the figure leading the
charge. McCain was resisting this push or at least attempting to keep
it within tight boundaries. Kristol campaigned against the McCain
strategy, boosting Palin.
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