McCain Staff Leakers, Whomever You Are, Are Scum, Should Be Outed, And Should Never Get Another Job–UPDATED

It speaks ill of John McCain that his former aids continue to bash Sarah Palin. It speaks ill of John McCain that he did not vociferously and ardently defend his running mate as she did him, post election.

I have a reminder to the geniuses at the McCain camp: YOU LOST. BADLY.

Now, there’s all sorts of explanations as to why that happened, but I put the blame on the leader’s shoulders: John McCain’s. His message was all over the road. His methods stunk. (He bought an iPhone after the election for crimeny sake–some of that “really cool” technology might have helped him during the election, ya know?) And his staff was obviously divided and at cross purposes.

Most soldiers know the whole “united we stand, divided we fall” mantra. Well, if John McCain knew it, his troops sure didn’t.

Blaming Sarah Palin for John McCain’s problems? How weak can you get? Continuing to talk about a lost election from months ago? What could possibly be gained by this? Oh wait, doing so will endear the consultant to the other Republican candidates, say Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee and the rest of the 2012 Republican hopefuls. Or are one of these guys paying the anonymous leaker to give Vanity Fair Palin-hating fodder. It’s a win-win-win! Destroy Sarah Palin for her 2012 rivals. Thin the field and put up those who have no chance of winning thus ensuring an Obama victory. Best of all, Vanity Fair can sell magazines using the image of the woman they hate.

Fine. The leaker should be ready to be outed. Be ready to be hunted down, exposed and be content to never work on a campaign again.

Updated:

More Palin hate at MSNBC Ed Morrissey says:

Mike Allen acts especially perturbed by the fact that — ohmygosh — people still actually want her to appear at fundraisers! He says this in the same tone of voice he might use in describing the Flat Earth Society or a reported chupacabra sighting. None of these men offer a reason for Palin to go into hiding and wear a political burqa except for their ad hominems, or explain why a governor of any state doesn’t belong at fundraisers for their political party. California just went broke; do you think these men would tell Arnold Schwarzenegger to stay home and out of fundraisers until they stop issuing IOUs? Do you think any of these three would dare?

Yes. It’s sexism. But it’s sexism with a purpose. Republican insiders fear her because she has the power to disrupt their power. So, she must be destroyed and the sooner the better.

Ed links to Patrick Hynes who asks, “What I don’t understand is this: Why would anyone hire a bunch of campaign staffers after watching how viciously they are attacking their former employer?”

Ed answers and says, “I’m pretty sure none of the obvious sources on this story will work on national campaigns again, not after the backbiting and disloyalty they’ve put on display for the rest of the world to see.”

In the real world, that might be the case. In this nasty political world, the Palin bashing is winning some campaign operative enough points to be employed again. And likely, the operative is employed now.

UPDATED:

Moe Lane has an idea:

If you are a McCain staffer who did not talk to VF, I suggest that you find some way to demonstrate that you aren’t one of the people in the first paragraph. Because until we know who talked, the default assumption is going to be that you may have talked. This will not wreck your career, but it will blight it if the base has anything to say about it. On the bright side, a simple and declarative denial will do; of course, if your denial is a lie and we catch you at it, brush up on your typing skills.

Robert Stacy McCain talks about the journalists delving deeply into Palin’s psyche:

Digression: Why can’t anyone from Team Maverick ever take responsibility for their own failures? It could be argued, given the disastrous result of his campaign, that everyone who supported him in the Republican primaries was guilty of flawed judgment. (Purdum notes that, after McCain clinched the GOP nomination, Palin didn’t publicly endorse him — evidence of superior judgment on her part, I’d say.)

Yet Purdum wants to talk “grandiosity” about Palin, while Barack Obama believes he can suspend the laws of economics? (It Won’t Work. The Fundamentals Suck. Economics Is Not a Popularity Contest. Weimar America.)

The problem with the MSM is not that it has no standards, but that it has two standards. Or perhaps — considering how the MSM savaged Hillary Clinton in the primaries last year — we can now say there are three standards: One for Republicans, one for Obama, and one for Democrats who get thrown under Obama’s bus.

Well. The MSM will always be enemies of the Right because their ideology matches the political Left. They have no curiosity. But they do know a political winner when they see one and they see one in Sarah Palin. And they are filled with fear and loathing.

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