Top McCain adviser refers to Palin as "a whack job"

No need to "blame" anyone - Palin is being herself now instead of following the scripts of the advisors and it's p***ing them off. I prefer to hear from her - not from campaign advisors.

You nailed it, C.V., it's McCain's fault no matter how you slice it! I love this, what's going to happen to all these Republicans who have broken Ronald Reagan's "11th Commandment" - Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican? Will they go to political Hell? Actually, I think the company will be much better than going in the other direction with the "good" Republicans...lol! Annie

I agree with you. All of this in-fighting is made possible due to John McCain's inability to lead his party through this tough campaign. He has made one bad decision after another. It doesn't seem as if he's meeting with his top campaign advisors on a daily basis. He seems to be unable to nip simple problems in the bud. Maybe it's because both he and Sarah Palin both consider themselves "Mavericks". Whatever the reason, McCain's campaign seems very erractic and dysfunctional at this time. And there's very little time to correct it. On the other side, you see a well organized campaign. All aspects are working together. It shows real leadership and organizational skills. It shows the ability to do more than one thing at a time. There is absolutely no in-fighting. I believe the way Barack Obama has run his campaign will be studied and copied for years to come. Lloyd

Unlike a lot of Palin detractors, I don't think she's stupid - I think she's extremely shrewd, especially when it comes to advancing her chosen agenda and accommodating her ambition. She has a great deal of personal charm, and judging from newspaper stories about her over the past 6-8 years, she doesn't let ethics get in the way of getting things done - her way. There are reports that she got that landmark agreement with TransCanada by meeting secretly with the major players in each company - and then structuring the bid process so that only one company was -qualified- to bid for it. She authorized the building of the hockey rink in Wasilla and gave the go-ahead to start building despite the fact that the ownership of the land was in question. That meant that the city ended up paying considerably more for the land than they would have, but the skating rink got built. There are multiple other examples of Palin doing things her way - and getting them done. Now. I am not naive. As much as we'd like it to be otherwise, every politician has these kinds of episodes, and they are forgiven them if their agendas are popular and Palin's is among the right-wing Republican base - and among the socially conservative majority in her home state. I believe that Palin was badly mishandled. I believe that if she had been given her head from the start, her blunders would have been different - and she would have looked less like an unintelligent, incurious, anti-intellectual and more like what she is - a woman who learns what she needs to know when she needs to know it, and has had little reason to look beyond the borders of her state before now - savvy, smart and narrowly focused. I think that what we're seeing - people distancing themselves from the McCain campaign and pointing fingers and all the criticism of Palin coming from the party can be laid directly at the feet of McCain's campaign management and his handling. Nearly every person who has cited McCain's choice of Palin as the biggest reason they've moved away from the party's choice has also cited the tenor of the campaign, its divisiveness and its lack of cohesion. Palin may have been cheerleading, but she didn't write the message. She's just very good at delivering it.

If she is a whack job, she's a whack job who can accomplish what the mainstream politicians couldn't. She's very intelligent and very capable. I've read a lot about her some good stuff and some bad stuff. Usually the bad things aren't backed up with fact. It's mainly name calling. Here's an article you may want to read for a fair look at her accomplishments. http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MjEyMzk3MWU4Yzk1NGQyMWYwZjk0OTcyNmEzYTM5N2E= Please let me know if this link works. I can't cut and paste yet so I had to type all of those letters and I don't know if I did it correctly.