Run Sarah, run! (but watch your back)
Sarah didn’t like her. Sarah didn’t trust her.
Nicolle Wallace knows her politics. She served as White House communications chief under George W. Bush and also worked as a senior advisor on the McCain-Palin 2008 campaign. Her second novel, It’s Classified, explores what would happen if a woman were plucked from relative obscurity and elected Vice President of the United States — only to find herself completely unprepared for the job. Wallace talked to TIME about the problem with likable politicians, why everyone in the White House eats constantly and her character’s obvious similarity to Sarah Palin.
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In the book, the vice presidential character, Tara Meyers, is completely unfit for her job.
The idea of a mentally ill vice president who suffers in complete isolation was obviously sparked by the behaviors I witnessed by Sarah Palin. What if somebody who was ill-equipped for the office were to ascend to the presidency or vice presidency? What would they do? How long would it take for people to figure it out? I became consumed by this question.
When you were working on the McCain campaign, what about Sarah Palin alarmed you so much?
Well, first let me just say that the novel is by no means meant to build a case against Sarah Palin. However, to the extent that the people around [the fictional vice president] Tara watched in this troubled state of confusion, despair and helplessness as she flailed around — that was something I experienced. Palin vacillated between extraordinary highs on the campaign stage — she ignited more enthusiasm than our side had seen at any other point — to debilitating lows. She was often withdrawn, uncommunicative and incapable of performing even the most basic tasks required of her job as McCain’s running mate.
The decision to relocate debate prep from the campaign trail, which is where McCain did his prep, to Sedona, was to isolate her and help her overcome the shock of becoming an overnight celebrity. There certainly were discussions — not for long because of the arc the campaign took — but certainly there were discussions about whether, if they were to win, it would be appropriate for her to be sworn in.
Discussions? Exactly who did these discussions involve?
Who has the authority to decide a Vice President-Elect should not be sworn in? A hired gun political operative? I don’t think so.
A Vice President can’t be fired, they have to be impeached. There is no constitutional authority for anyone to prevent a Vice President-Elect from taking office.
Notice the clever way Wallace bounces back and forth between “It’s not about Sarah” and “It’s about Sarah.” That lets her slime Sarah without facts or substance.
She was often withdrawn, uncommunicative and incapable of performing even the most basic tasks required of her job as McCain’s running mate.
So she was tired for long days of campaigning and didn’t feel like talking to somebody she didn’t like or trust. Don’t you think if Sarah had a habit of curling up in the fetal position we would have heard about it before now?
What were these “basic tasks” she was allegedly incapable of performing? I don’t recall hearing about anything of the sort back during the campaign.
The Vice Presidential debate took place about one month after Sarah was nominated. She spent most of that month (and the month that followed) campaigning all over the country. IIRC she only took a few days off to prepare for the debate.
I just have one question for Nicole Wallace – Is the going rate still 30 pieces of silver?
The Crawdad Hole 
Wallace belongs in the ninth circle
True story
absolutely!
Even the conservatives who do not want Palin at all are raising hell over this on the blogs. The consensus is that Wallace is a bitter, backstabbing tool and any campaign that ever hires her in the future ought to be boycotted by GOP voters.
And that’s from the ones who don’t care for Sarah.
“Charlie Black, who was McCain’s top campaign adviser in the 2008 race. “I never heard any such discussions,” Black told me. “There were no discussions like that with McCain, or I think I would have known about them. That doesn’t mean some subset of the senior staff might have talked to each other about it.”
As for the constitutional issues involved with blocking an elected vice-president from taking the oath of office, Black said, “Whoever was having that discussion, if there was one, didn’t have a good lawyer in the group.”
NRO:
Can you imagine any campaign in the future hiring Wallace after this?
I can’t.
I hope for her sake that the advance she got for this book is worth it.
Her problem is no one was going to hire her before this either.
MSNBC hired her months ago. ’nuff said.
this woman is on Sean Hannity all the time and is never embarrassed by the fact that her books are slutty novels, i did not realize how she was connected w/McCain campaign. I’m so tired of the RINOS and their anti-conservatism, after 30 years I think I am going to register as an Independent.
So Wallace wanted to make money off PDSers by writing a book full of made-up stuff, but she didn’t want to get sued so she marketed it as fiction. I guess that makes her marginally less dumb than McGinnis. But not less hateful.
Wallace on Palin in 2008
Maybe she forgot telling the Wall Street Journal this…
11/18/09:
Everyone else has moved on, huh?
I’m waiting on Schmidt to release a book like that one.
I think Biden should sue.
Truth is a defense to defamation
Biden could sue for royalties or “improper use of image.”
comment at GOP12…
My thoughts exactly. We don’t need a fictional novel — we have a POTUS who is completely unfit for the job IRL.
Truth is stranger than fiction.
LOL. I agree.
I think the fact that the book is fiction would be seen as irrelevant in this case if the V.P. candidate were to sue. Biden has a case.
I used to think that what was done to Hillary was disgusting, especially when it was done by the Democratic Party. The attack on SP confirms once again how both parties are devoid of morality.
RSMcCain…
I’m Thinking About Writing a Novel Called ‘Two-Faced Backstabbing RINO Bitch’
With cover art.
LOL at the subtitle.
LOL!!!
I keep being reminded of how very much I despise the political class of both parties.
Actual republican neighbors and friends? Not so much. Actual Democrat neighbors and friends? Not so much.
But our political class are a bunch of blood-sucking amoral leeches. And I’m not talking about just the candidates – I’m talking about the consultants and ad people and lobbyists and handlers and communications directors and campaign managers etc.
I know the bard told us to first kill all the lawyers, but can we get a two-fer?
Honk!
Please! That sounds like a great start.
Belgium hasn’t formed a government in over a year. They seem to be doing just fine without one.
LMAO! I’m not a small-government conservative by nature, but when the only fucking choice ever offered me is fucked up corrupt govt or less of it, I’ll fall toward less of it, unless someone gives me a convincingly better option.
There’s still the monster corporations, but at least we’d be living with only one master screwing us over, not two in league.
The Bard did NOT tell us to kill all the lawyers. The Bard (through the character of Dick the butcher in Henry VI Part 2) instructs TYRANTS that if they really want to the ultimate tyrant: “The first thing we do, let’s kill all the lawyers” because the lawyers ensure that the King/Tyrant can’t get away with too much violaton of peoples’ rights. Once the lawyers are all gone, the King/Tyrant can do what he wants without anyone to stop him.
The actual meaning of the quote & the misrepresentation with which it is used is shocking and is my #1 pet peeve both as a student of English Lit & as a lawyer.
It’s kind of funny to call her “isolated and uncommunicative.” She’s written a couple of books, appears on the news frequently, gives speeches all over the country, posts her opinions on facebook, did a TV special. I don’t know any “isolated and uncommunicative” people who actually travel to your area just to communicate with you.
As someone on another blog pointed out –
She wasn’t isolated and uncommunicative because she chose not to chat with you or be around you, Nicole. She just hated YOU, and recognized you for what you are. That’s not isolated, that’s good judgement.
Her emails when she was governor have been sifted by the lamestream media. I can’t think of another candidate that has been vetted more than SP.
That’s why I don’t think anything negative said about her will stick. There’s too much real evidence to the contrary out there. The lady was an engaged, hard working, good governor. That pretty well does it for attack bait.
The entire McCain campaign team, even Little Meghan McBoobs, were quick to blame Sarah for their loss. It never occured to them McCain’s defeat may have been far greater w/o Sarah.
http://twitter.com/#!/marklevinshow/status/121708614024048640
Life sucks.
Sarah’s letter? Nothing on C4P yet 😦
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/10/105741/
here’s him reading her statement
http://marklevinshow.com/Article.asp?id=2303165&spid=32364
I has a sad. : (
Me too.
fuck
I blame the GOP.
HONK!
My only remaining question is who do I write-in? Palin or Hillary? I think it’s gonna be Sarah.
Gutless Ossified Pretentious
I really think that Sarah was their and our last best chance.
I shall now turn myself in at AttackWatch.com.
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The GOP elites are working overtime to clear the field for Romney.
They don’t want Sarah in, and they don’t want any other candidate winning the primary.
RS McCain noticed that 3 Florida lawmakers just endorsed Romney.
The co-chair of the RNC finance committee just made a public comment that the nominee will be Romney, no one else has a chance.
This is all 2008 all over again – the party elites paving the way and backstabbing whoever they need to to get their selected person in. Early endorsements, money, blabbing to the compliant press. It’s like the actual GOP primary voters are an annoying irrelevance.
Yup.
Obama v Romney here we come.
*barf*
my sentiments exactly.
maybe i’ll google for knitting blogs and self medicate from now till the inauguration of whichever asshole wins.
There are lots of good knitting blogs. 😉
The fight now will be over who gets her endorsement. She’s not done.
I’d love for whoever wins to appt her Energy Secretary. Heads would explode, especially in oil company boardrooms and at lobbyist lunches.
Primary voters are an annoyance. You called that right. I’m not sure of anything that will make a big difference. There’s too much money and entrenched power involved to allow Cain to get it. FWIW, I think Perry is as bad as Romney on economic matters and worse socially.
We still have Cain? A lot of people kept their powder dry for Sarah, it will be interesting to see who they open their wallets for now.
On the upside kids, those anti-Sarah books will bomb now 😉
Cain has foot-in-mouth disease, and zero foreign policy chops, but to me he’s still better than Romney or Perry.
If I had my personal druthers for the GOP right now, it would go
1) Cain
2)Romney
3) Perry
I still think Perry is likely to win, despite his abysmal performance, just because the not-Romney vote will be twitchy as to whether Cain can win, and then there’s the money issue. They may reluctantly go to Perry. But I could be wrong. I picked Perry for the win back before Cain caught fire. Romney’s advantage is that the conservative vote will be split now.
Cain has Romney’s missing personality.
Maybe he’ll be Romney’s VP
I can name the only politician unfit to be president: Barack Obama!
“The Undefeated” is in my grubby little hands, and I’m going to watch it now.
Still nothing on the C4P or O4P sites 😦 My FB is exploding on the news sources I follow.
They are probably in shock. I would be if I had put in close to 3 years on something like this and the rug got pulled out.
Yup. I feel for the o4p folks too in Iowa, specially Peter Singleton.
Obama v Romney means Obama will win. It’s a done deal. The fix is in.
Actually, I think Romney would beat Obama. I don’t like Mittens, but he could beat Obama.
I agree, Obama is done!
The only good thing about Mittens I can think of, I like his wife. She may actually bring awareness to important issues instead of….
http://newsbird.wordpress.com/2011/10/05/michelle-obama-delivers-special-ed-and-signs-yay-to-me-in-her-garden/#more-12473
Mitt Romney’s wife?
Her important issues are life sized posters of her grandchildren.
She probably bakes a mean cupcake.
Not much of a role model.
But after First Time Proud of My Country Look At Me Michelle Obama,
Ann Romney would be a breath of fresh air.
Catarina, I’m not sure why you think that raising five kids well is a bad role model, but I disagree.
Perhaps she thought that was a greater contribution to society than other things she could have done with her Harvard degree.
I think it’s just as wrong to sneer at women who do bake cupcakes as it is to sneer at women who don’t.
Meet Ann Romney. And yes, a breath of fresh air, she seems “normal” 😀
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Romney
Wrong?
Please- she’s boring. That’s my opinion.
More of a snore than a sneer.
Wow, the faux progressives are all cheering Schadenfreude over the Palin announcement. Of course what that really means is they’re breathing a big sigh of relief and their main fear as been eliminated.
It’s a good night to get drunk.
Obviously, this is because of Wallace’s book. She’s that important.
I think, I really think, she was 99% decided to run and something changed her mind.
I thought the same thing …. I also thought when she said will not seek the GOP nomination…..an opening for an Indy run? If ever there was a year for a third party….it’s Palin/Cain. Voices for the rest of us 😀
Sarah will be on Greta tonight.
She said today she would not run third party, as it would guarantee an Obama win.
*dons freshly folded, outrageously chic chapeau de Reynolds Wrap*
Maybe she remembered–or was reminded–that Alaskans probably use small airplanes more than the residents of any other state, and that such airplanes have shown an enhanced tendency to crash when populist politicians are riding in them? (*coughWellstonecough*)
Hey, when a Democratic president will casually order a citizen murdered by remote control, I wouldn’t put anything past the Malefactors Of Great Wealth.
I wouldn’t put it past them.
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