BY TAYLOR MARSH
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| via New York Post |
“Rogue” is The Word. Via CNN, who seems to be very busy taking “McCain adviser” calls:
McCain sources say Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls — recorded messages often used to attack a candidate’s opponent — “irritating” even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan. A second McCain source says she appears to be looking out for herself more than the McCain campaign.
“She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone,” this McCain adviser said. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else.
But seriously, if looks could kill, the picture of McCain and Palin above send a chill.
The New
York Post has it as “pit bull turns on the Maverick.”
Things have gotten so tense between Palin and her traveling staff, an insider said, that she’s overruling their advice – which was evident last week when she ignored GOP aides piling into waiting cars at a Colorado event and strolled over to the press corps for an impromptu talk.
The
New Republic has it, too.
But you can see Palin’s post-November-4 narrative beginning to take shape: The Republican party structure is irretrievably broken, as evidenced by the ’08 blowout and poignantly symbolized by the RNC’s wasteful, politically tone-deaf Neiman Marcus shopping spree. But Palin, the breath of fresh air from Alaska, rolls her eyes at the old rules, disdains all the ossified ways of doing things, etc. etc. …
Once Ben Smith of the Politico got the ball rolling on Palin “going rogue,” it snowballed from there
taking on a life of it’s own.
Now it’s stuck and it’s taken off. Media outlets, blogs, cable shows and no doubt today on talk radio, all will continue to be in full flutter over the fall out of Sarah
Palin going “rogue.” The drama is delicious. When a campaign is obviously
going south, everyone starts blaming everyone else. That’s normal. But if you’ve
also got a veep on the ticket who’s taken severe body blows to her credibility,
even as she ponders what’s next for her, it’s obvious she knows she’s got to step in because camp McCain could care less. She’s done all she can do for them and now she’s just a drag. But in a career that’s just taken off, however
badly, you’ve got a doubly toxic atmosphere, because Palin’s got to resuscitate her
image so she can get somewhere after this is all over.
Shorter: Sarah’s got to get busy and put the blame on someone besides herself.
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