…the fact that McCain had a Obamanaut on his staff handling Gov. Palin shows a tremendous amount of either stupidity or McCain really did throw the whole election.

Either way this just makes me sick.

[quote]tremendous amount of either stupidity or McCain really did throw the whole election.[/quote]

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

She’s dead to me.

She’s dead to me.

I think that the only word that describes this piece of excrement was the word John McCain himself used so lovingly to describe his wife: “…that c*nt”. I think that pretty well sums up my opinion of Ms. Wallace…AND her former boss!

Leper Leaps FOR Obama makes it sound like the Leper is lunging for him in attack mode…Leper Leaps TO Obama is more apt IMHO…

Aside from that, I agree that she should be shunned in Republican circles…As troubling as it is that she was in the McCain Camp, (which really isn’t a surprise to me that he’d surround himself with people like her), what troubles me more is that Beltway Republicans are already singing the tune that Obama will be a two term President beginning before he was even nominated…I’m hearing it more and more from these crap weasels and it’s scaring the crap out of me…given the near surrender of the RNC and the party because this was a third term election, and a bad atmosphere for Republicans and there are more Republicans seats to defend than the Democrat…does this mean we can count on the party to write off the next 8 years and not fight till 2016?

I’m ashamed to call myself a Republican any more!

The “Big Tent” analogy isn’t the correct one…the correct one is a MAGNET…we need to be a MAGNET that draws these independents in who are sick and tired of what’s going on in Washington—Fred Thompson

mccain advisor to fall in love with obama?

I’ve thrown up all over my keyboard! Now that that’s over, I can’t express the disdain I have for the likes of John McCain, Nickole Wallace, Lindsey Graham and the others. We deserve this. We let that moron be our candidate knowing full well, who he was, and what he stood for. None of this surprises me; what it does do is make listening to him and his friends regret the day I ever thought they could represent us. Yes!!!! I’m committed to never seeing her or any like her anywhere near a Republican candidate.

But seeing how many so-called Republicans are surrendering, it’s sounding more like the latter, akin to the spirit of Revelation of those who throw in the towel whining “who can resist the beast”. I’m not saying here that Obama is the Beast – much too early to consider that considering the historical competition – but this total cowardice and unwillingness to stand on principle when the wind turns reflects a moral vacuum that has infected much of our leadership, and that unchecked may well doom our nation.

I’m also reminded of these lines from Yeat’s “The Second Coming”:

The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity

Ten good persons would have saved Sodom – are enough left standing to save America? We shall soon see, I suspect.

should extend to all kinds of staffers. There really aren’t a lot of “Republican” consultants and staffers out there. I’d be willing to wager that the majority of the staffers to Republicans in DC and in the States voted for Obama. The best a Republican can do with these people is usually the apolitical technician, the true mercenary who is doggedly loyal to whomever is signing his/her paycheck.

There a a variety of reasons for this. Being a minority staffer is a thankless task; you don’t get to go to the good parties or date the cuties and Rs had been in the minority forever. Republicans try to be lean and mean so they don’t have a lot of staff. Republicans don’t have the shadow government of union, non-profits and foundations that the Democrats have. So, if you throw in with the Republicans and your guy loses, you’re back to selling cars or something.

Every elected or appointed Republican in the Country should be looking for a place to put the good people being thrown out of the federal government as the result of the last election, but they won’t. And there you get to the other problem, the aversion to controversy. GWB and the Congressional Republicans became unpopular, so hiring somebody who worked for them would be unpopular. Therefore, a good, skilled, experienced staffer or ‘crat is going to the scrap heap or to the Democrats.

It happened to me when I quit the Executive Branch in ’96 over the constant fighting with a Democrat Administration that had promised the unions my head. I wasn’t even an appointee but by then I was pretty closely associated with Governor Hickel and the Legislative Republicans. The Republicans rather sheepishly offered me a contract to work for the Legislaure, no staff, no office, no name on the door, they even tried to keep it quiet that they’d contracted with me. Of course, it leaked and was front page news. Contracts with Democrats for many multiples of what I was getting weren’t news, but mine was because I’d dared to oppose a Democrat and the Rs had actually stood by me – sorta. Went on that way all three sessions I worked for them. Even today, when they have troubles, they’ll call me, but they really don’t want to be seen with me.

Whatever else, those people who were working for McCain had to have a job after the election and they couldn’t count on the Republcans to give them anything. Makes you into a very compromised and compromising person.

From her wikipedia biography:

George W. Bush appointed her as White House Communications Director on January 5, 2005, the same day her predecessor, Dan Bartlett, vacated the post to become a more general Counselor to the President.

Gee, what was George Bush’s second term known for? A complete inability to communicate the Republican message through the media. And guess who was responsible? This bloody leper.

As a technical person, I am so Occam’s Razor, never buy into conspiracy theories or the like. But the case you make here makes a conspiracy involving N*cole W*llace (no profanity on Redstate!) the explanation that makes the fewest assumptions. The only question is: did she act alone, or was McCain part of the deal. I think he has enough ego that I find it hard to believe he would sell out the campaign unless there was some carrot at the end. Since he hasn’t been appointed to any position in The One’s administration, that appears not to have been the case.

Which, in the end, makes McCain just a complete idiot for hiring Ms. W*llace in the first place.

David Frum mentions here how he “crossed swords” with Nicolle Wallace over the Harriet Miers nomination.

Here is Nicolle Wallace pushing Harriet Miers’s nomination on CNN.

Funny, when I went to Wikipedia to look her up, I typed Nicole Wallace instead of Nicolle Wallace. The former link is a Law and Order character played by Olivia d’Abo who is described as a “a sociopathic con artist, thief, and serial killer.”

Hmmmm…….one and the same??

It is really no suprise that he allowed the best thing in his campaign to be sabotaged by one of the worst things in his campaign. McLame did not deserve Sarah Palin or the boost that she gave to him. The RNC did not deserve her or it either. Their collective efforts to make no effort should have disqualified them from the benefits she bestowed upon them.

The fact that N*cole W*allace would even be allowed to carry Palin’s luggage makes me sick..

This would not have happened on Fred’s watch…too bad he 1/2 a$$ed the effort in the primaries.

Here’s the link.

NOTE: Back then she was known as Nicole Devenish – Wallace is her married name.

TO: The White House Communications Office

CC: Daniel Bartlett, Nicole Devenish, Scott McClellan, et al.

BCC: George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Andrew Card, Karl Rove

Good day Ladies & Gentlemen,

As a Conservative and a Republican, it is quite painful for me to write this and indeed I do deeply regret that I feel so strongly that I would do so.

You, my dear Ladies and Gentlemen of the White House Communications Office, are incompetent. Indeed, your incompetence can only be described is incandescent in its purity. It goes without question that no other group of White House staffers have so ill-served their President in the past fifty years.

In all your five years of service, one can count on one hand, when you have shown any sign of creativity, foresight, calm, preparedness and/or courage. The time has long passed since when it could be said that you instilled or inspired confidence in this Administration’s supporters (such as myself), much less the nation as a whole.

One shudders to think of where this Administration would be without the advent of talk radio and the Conservative/Republican contingent of the blogging community to defend and successfully promote this Administration – whether it be the President, his policies and his record.

It may be as a result of burnout, boredom or limitations in wits, but you have failed your President in every possible way there is to fail a President. Your decision to counsel silence, to inpotently cower from this Administration’s foes in the Press and from across the aisle even as the President’s standing in the polls crashed, will be remembered for decades for the nearest to perfect demonstration of White House Communications incompetence, timidity, blindness and stupidity in half-a-century. At the very least, Nixon’s White House went down fighting.

Know that it matters not whether or not you’re contending with a monstrously hostile Press Corps. The American voter who votes according to the negative perceptions of the President driven by the Press counts just as much as that of the well-informed who sees through the lies on the front page of the New York Times.

Your job is to find a way to defeat this obstacle like any other and get the American people behind your President. It requires creativity, and non-pedestrian minds who are capable of making use of the myriad of advantages you have over past Republican Presidents faced with a uniformly Democrat staffed Press.

But, unfortunately, you have proven yourselves constitutionally incapable of doing so. Instead we have watched as this Administration has stumbled from one contrived controversy after another with virtual silence and somnolence from your office.

While indeed, your loyalty to this President is commendable, and indeed, you should be and are thanked for it, it is not enough. Competence is just as important. You lack it … and thus, if you were not before, you have become useless and worthless in the capacity in which you serve, no more than ticket punchers and dead weight, and it is time for you to do the honorable thing and tender your resignations.

Thank you very much for your service to the President and your nation but in the words of Oliver Cromwell;

You have sat too long for any good you have been doing. Depart, I say, and let us have done with you. In the name of God, go!

Yours Sincerely,

Martin A. Knight

How did McCain think it was a good idea to hire her? Further proof that anyone involved in George Bush’s 2nd term PR front should never be given a job by a Republican again.

very interesting.

My takeaway from all of this is a conviction that many more are finding it “safe” to come “out” for The One now that the baton has been passed.

It is good to be able to see who your enemies are. The sheep’s clothing is sometimes hard to see through, but seeing lips planted on posteriors is a dead giveaway.

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and sometimes not always in the way we think. There are a lot of careerists is the state capitols and in Washington who want to remain popular with either the press corps or the new administration. I think Nicole Wallace is looking for a job with one of the networks or cable outlets and realizes that being nice to President Obama can help. Republicans are the out group in Washington right now and saying nice things about republicans except on Fox News can cost you a job or appearance on these shows. Also most of the staffers are not wealthy and need a job.

Also I am going say something that I know will not sit well with many. Most of us do not know Sarah Palin. I am a fan and a supporter. However I did not have the opportunity to meet her when she came to my state during the campaign. While I certainly do not approve of the conduct of the McCain campaign or McCain himself as it relates to the gossip regarding Gov Palin, we were not in the briefing sessions with her and have not way of knowing what went on.

Could anyone possibly expected anything better out of the McCain campaign? Gee, a backstabbing political whore hiring a backstabbing political whore. Suuuurpriiiise!

I have made up my mind and I hope the GOP leadership listens, I will not vote for a McCain ever again. Sarah Palin helped me to overlook fake McCain but I knew McCain was still his same liberal guy. I will not do it again. There were 2 reasons I voted for McCain – stop Obama/socialism “spreading the wealth around”, and Sarah Palin – CONSERVATIVE (do you hear that GOP???).

We have the most liberal President ever because we had a liberal Republican on our ticket. But NOT ANYMORE. Conservative or I will write in Conservative on my ballot from now on.