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Originally Posted by rubberneck
I just got done watching a Fox news report about the supposed rift between Sarah Palin and the McCain insiders and it wasn't pretty.
According the report the people in charge of getting her up to speed with the campaign were stunned about her lack of basic knowledge. It was reported that she couldn't name the countries involved in NAFTA, she misidentified Africa as a country and didn't understand the concept of American Exceptionalism. In short she was described as a very shallow woman, in way over her head and totally incapable of dealing with the stresses of a Presidential Campaign.
With that sort of rep leaking out of the McCain camp I wonder if she has any future in the Republican party at the national level.
The video isn't on the Fox website but it should be tomorrow.
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I wouldn't expect anything less from the folks that ran a completly inept campaign. Had they let Sarah be Sarah and McCain be McCain instead of trying to mold them into what they thought everyone wanted them to be things might have been different. From what I understand, the reason she did so poorly in the initial interviews was because they tried to change her. When they finally let her be herself in the debate with Biden is when she truly shined.
Wouldn't want anyone to man (or woman) up and say it was their fault now would we? It's easier to toss the person who energized the base more than anyone in recent memory under the bus. If they realized she was so dense then maybe they should have allowed McCain to pick Lieberman to be his running mate as I truly believe he wanted to, instead of convincing him she was his savior.