Tuesday, October 28

Don't just blame the media, blame the aides too

From "Diva" to "Whack Job" [Rich Lowry]

McCain aides continue to go viciously negative—on their vice presidential candidate. Mike Allen has a McCain aide calling Palin a "whack job." This is part of the problem with Palin getting assigned aides with no loyalty to her. I've never been a "Free Sarah Palin" type. I'm in the Krauthammer school that the McCain campaign probably let her do big high-stakes media interviews too soon and should have waited while she was more fully briefed-up. But the mishandling of Palin that's been evident over the last week—from the clothes fiasco that wasn't her doing to the sniping at her from within the campaign—has been appalling.

I'm sure Sarah Palin's being an appalling choice for VP has nothing to do with it. So of course, let's blame the aides.

After all, a candidate who doesn't have enough loyal aides when she begins to campaign and needs more than a month to get "briefed-up" before interviewing with the national media would be an excellent President in a pinch...

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