The Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth Begins, Plans for a Purge Develop
Press play before scrolling down, because this post requires a soundtrack.
Melissa Manchester, “Don’t Cry Out Loud”
The GOP and their supporters are having an epic meltdown. The circular firing squad has begun.
The anonymous trashing of Sarah Palin by blabbermouth McCain aides who are leaking to Fox News is disgusting. Absolutely disgusting….
At least all the Hollywood and Manhattan Palin-haters were willing to sign their names and put their faces on their attacks.
Let’s assume the rumor-mongers are telling the truth for a moment. Who does it damn more: Sarah Palin or McCain and his vetters who green-lighted her for the vice presidential nomination? Don’t need an Ivy League degree to figure that one out.
Meanwhile, Red State announces a purge:
RedState is pleased to announce it is engaging in a special project: Operation Leper.
We’re tracking down all the people from the McCain campaign now whispering smears against Governor Palin to Carl Cameron and others. Michelle Malkin has the details.
We intend to constantly remind the base about these people, monitor who they are working for, and, when 2012 rolls around, see which candidates hire them. Naturally then, you’ll see us go to war against those candidates.
Time for more music, here’s an oldie but a goodie that probably fits the deceased McCain campaign’s mood:
Gloom, Despair, and Agony on Me
They just fired Randy Scheuneman:
“He was positioning himself with Palin at the expense of John McCain’s campaign message,” said one of the aides.
Senior campaign officials blame Schuenemann specifically for stories about the way Wallace and chief campaign strategist Steve Schmidt mishandled Palin’s rollout — stories that the campaign says threw them off message in the critical final weeks of the campaign.
Another aide said McCain personally was “very disappointed by Randy,” who worked for McCain for many years in the Senate.
In another sign of drama and disarray inside camp McCain, former campaign senior adviser Randy Scheunemann responded late Wednesday to CNN and insisted he was “not fired and never [have] been fired.”
In addition, Michael Goldfarb, a McCain press aide and Scheunemann ally, also insisted he was not fired.
However, Goldfarb did concede that Scheunemann’s campaign e-mail was cut off, and his blackberry was taken away late Friday. Goldfarb admits that senior McCain aides were mad at Scheunemann, and wanted to fire him, but he insists they stopped short of that, and instead simply turned off his campaign communication.
well OK then! I found all of these delightful gems at Firedoglake, by the way.
Oh look who’s come slithering out from under a rock! It’s everyone’s favorite duplicitous snake, Joe Lieberman, who just realized he’s up to his eyeballs in hot water, and if he doesn’t patch things up, he may be boiled in oil:
During a prime-time address at the Republican National Convention, the Connecticut lawmaker had rapped Obama as an untested candidate beholden to Democratic interest groups.
But a day after Tuesday’s election, Lieberman, a fixture beside McCain on the campaign trail, congratulated Obama for his “historic and impressive victory.
“Now that the election is over, it is time to put partisan considerations aside and come together as a nation to solve the difficult challenges we face and make our blessed land stronger and safer,” Lieberman said in a written statement. “I pledge to work with President-elect Obama and his incoming administration in their efforts to reinvigorate our economy and keep our nation secure and free.”
I think that’s fine for now. Later today: actual emails i’ve received.
November 6th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
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