Palin 2012 Campaign

マケイン敗北はペイリンのせいと言われ始めた。
マケインの選挙幹部が暴露と言いつつ、ペイリンたたき。
ペイリンの選挙幹部も応酬したようだ。
記事読んでいると女の戦い(?)のようにも取れる。
ペイリンはマケインをたてたが、マケインは敗北宣言以来コメントがない。
共和党の内部分裂を収めるために、マケインが言葉が必要と言われる。

americanchronicleの記事は、敗者を中傷。
「卑劣な選挙方針とバカを副大統領に選び、戦争の英雄の遺産が破滅した」
と言う。
ホッケーママはバカなのか。
アイダホ大学コミュニケーションジャーナル部はバカを卒業させたのか。
アラスカ州民はバカを知事に選んだのか。

ホッケーママは地元に戻って知事業務を再開。
州広報の写真見る限り、こぎれいな女性にしかみえない。
いたずら電話でペイリンが次の大統領選に出馬するかもと言う言葉に
クリスマス商戦も兼ねて"Palin 2012 Gifts"が活発。
日本の宮崎県知事を見ているようだ。


Palin: No Plans for 2012


Sarah Palin: Face Of The Republican Party


Governor Sarah Palin Discusses Her Plans


Discussions on the future of Gov. Sarah Palin

---John McCain's Selection Of Sarah Palin: Treason?---
Robert Paul Reyes November 07, 2008
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/80526

I don't expect a vice-presidential candidate to be familiar with all the nuances of the Kyoto treaty, but I do hope that he or she will know more about politics and current events than the average elementary school student.

Sarah Palin has all the gravitas of a feather duster, the former beauty queen is blissfully ignorant of the world outside of Alaska. The only time she comes in contact the outside world is when Putin's head hovers over the governor's mansion.

Palin proved herself to be an airhead when she flubbed her interviews with Katie Couric and Charles Gibson, but until now we had no idea about the breathtaking extent of her ignorance.

"Cameron, the Fox beat reporter for the Republican presidential ticket, said he had been told by unnamed sources -- and on the condition he not report the details during the campaign -- that Palin could not name all of the countries that are part of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

He did not mention which one (or ones) she whiffed on, but there are only three: Canada, the U.S. and Mexico.

Nor, according to Cameron, was Palin aware that Africa is a continent. (Perhaps she was hamstrung by the fact that no part of that land mass can be viewed from her homestate.)"

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2008/11/what-sarah-pali.html

Palin's handlers were handed a mission impossible, how could they possibly prep the clueless diva to face the media? No wonder that after the disastrous Couric and Gibson interviews, Palin had sit-downs only with Republican sycophants like San Hannity of Fox News.

John McCain ran one of the dirtiest and most inept presidential campaigns in history. McCain ran an undisciplined campaign that sifted focus every few days, but his most colossal blunder was selecting Palin as his running mate. With that one cynical, reckless, desperate and dangerous act, McCain forever ruined his legacy as a maverick and war hero. McCain put his own selfish ambitions ahead of the interests of his county.

McCain is guilty of treason, he put the security of the United States at risk by choosing a woefully unprepared and unqualified fool to be his VP.

In Japan when an individual commits an unforgivable transgression or a huge mistake he commits Hari Kari. I'm not suggesting that McCain commit ritual suicide, but he should retire from Congress.


---Governor Palin Returns to Alaska---
http://www.nick.com/all_nick/tv_supersites/nick_news/stories_weekly.jhtml?pollId=470422170&wstory=1

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin returned home to a rousing welcome the day after Election Day -- a cheering crowd at the airport in Anchorage.

She and Republican presidential nominee John McCain may have lost the election.

But she didn't lose her friends and supporters back home.

"It's just the beginning for Sarah," said Anchorage resident Beryl Kring, in an interview with the Associated Press. "She'll be on the ticket in 2012."

In fact, there were "Palin 2012" t-shirts for sale Tuesday at an Election Night rally in her hometown of Wasilla, and people chanting "2012! 2012!" at the airport.

That day, Palin told reporters she wasn't thinking about 2012 just yet.

But some Republicans already see her as a presidential candidate herself in the next election.

"Conservatives are still looking for Mr. Right," said Bill Whalen of the conservative Hoover Institution, in a report on MSNBC.com. "Maybe Mr. Right turns out to be Ms. Right."

In the more immediate future, there's speculation that Palin might take over fellow Republican Ted Stevens' US Senate seat.

Stevens was just re-elected.

But he was recently convicted of corruption-related charges, and Palin has called for him to resign.

Before the presidential campaign, Palin was seen in Alaska as someone who was willing to reach out to Democrats and fight fellow Republicans, when necessary.

But people's perceptions of Palin have changed since McCain named her his running mate back in August.

Some Alaskans were reportedly surprised by some of the strong conservative opinions she expressed during the campaign.

"Everybody in Alaska is seeing her in a new light," said Jonathan Anderson, a member of the city assembly in Juneau, Alaska, in an interview with the Associated Press. "We knew she'd been the basketball player and the beauty pageant contestant, and not too much more beyond that."

And Palin continues to be dogged by reports that she was in way over her head as a candidate for national office -- reports that she didn't know even basic facts that anyone in her position should have known.

"She didn't know the nations involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement," said Fox News Channel reporter Carl Cameron, sighting aides to McCain as the source for that bit of information. "She didn't understand ... that Africa (is) a continent and not a country."

(For the record, the nations that signed the North American Free Trade Agreement are the United States, Canada and Mexico.)

And Palin didn't help herself with her disastrous conversation with CBS Evening News Anchor Katie Couric and other shaky interviews.

As for rumors about Palin's shortcomings, her spokesperson, Meg Stapleton, told reporters, "This is so unfortunate and, quite honestly, sickening. The accusations were are hearing and reading are not true. And since we deny all these anonymous allegations, there is nothing specific to which we will respond."

Palin herself has denied any friction between her and Senator McCain.

"We had a great relationship," she told reporters the day after Election Day, according to the New York Times. "I love him."

And plenty of Alaskans still love her.

"I thought (McCain and Palin) would win," said 18-year-old Arin Denison, a Wasilla resident, according to the Associated Press. "I'm very upset about it."

Wasilla resident Phil Straka was still seen selling McCain-Palin buttons on Election Night.

"I think America made a big mistake," he said.


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---Governor Sarah Palin receives a warm welcome from Lieutenant Governor Sean Parnell (left) and her staff upon her return to her Anchorage office on November 7, 2008.---

http://gov.state.ak.us/large_photo.php?id=202


---Alaska Governor Sarah Palin responded to questions from the press upon returning to her Anchorage office on November 7, 2008.---

http://gov.state.ak.us/large_photo.php?id=201


---Tensions between McCain and Palin camps come to light---
McCain aides talk about the Republican vice presidential nominee's wardrobe controversy and other issues.
By Maeve Reston and Seema Mehta
5:34 PM PST, November 6, 2008
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-na-palin6-2008nov06,3,1251151,full.story

Reporting from Phoenix -- Sarah Palin left the national stage Wednesday, but the controversy over her role on the ticket flared as aides to John McCain disclosed new details about her expensive wardrobe purchases and revealed that a Republican Party lawyer would be dispatched to Alaska to inventory and retrieve the clothes still in her possession.

Tensions have simmered for much of the last month between aides loyal to McCain and those loyal to Palin, but they boiled over after the Republican nominee's defeat, as both sides spoke freely -- though anonymously -- about the wardrobe controversy and other conflicts.

An article on Thursday in Section A about tensions between aides loyal to Sen. John McCain and those loyal to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin erred in referring to communication between the camps regarding a telephone interview Palin had with a Canadian comedian who pretended to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy. The story should have said, "McCain aides said the Palin camp did not notify McCain's senior staff or the State Department about the supposed contact." The word "not" was erroneously left out.

Two aides to McCain and two to Palin discussed the tensions but asked that their names not be revealed, saying they were not comfortable speaking openly about internal operations.

The miscommunication and quarrels between the two camps lasted into Tuesday night, said McCain aides familiar with the situation. Palin arrived at the Arizona Biltmore planning to deliver a speech before McCain's concession speech, they said, but was told by senior McCain aides Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter that it would not be appropriate.

Fox News reported Wednesday that Palin's lack of knowledge on some topics also strained relations. Carl Cameron reported that campaign sources told him Palin had resisted coaching before her faltering Katie Couric interviews; did not understand that Africa was a continent rather than a country; and could not name the three nations that are part of the North American Free Trade Agreement -- the United States, Canada and Mexico.

For weeks, the McCain-Palin campaign has dealt with the fallout from the disclosure that the Republican National Committee was billed for $150,000 in wardrobe purchases for the Palin family -- a discovery that was widely ridiculed and undercut Palin's hockey mom appeal.

Several McCain aides said they had recently discovered that Palin's traveling staff had used personal credit cards to spend as much as $20,000 to $30,000 on additional wardrobe items for Palin.

Palin and her press aides were traveling back to Alaska on Wednesday and could not be reached for comment. But one aide earlier told Newsweek: "Gov. Palin was not directing staffers to put anything on their personal credit cards, and anything that staffers put on their credit cards has been reimbursed, like an expense."

The original $150,000 in purchases was revealed in late October after the release of the September and October Federal Election Commission filings by the Republican National Committee. Those reports revealed that more than $75,062.63 was spent at Neiman Marcus, $49,425.74 at Saks Fifth Avenue and $5,102.71 at Bloomingdale's around the time of the Republican National Convention in early September.

The campaign has said that many of those clothes were returned.

But McCain aides said Wednesday that spending on Palin's wardrobe continued well after the convention, with one custom-made outfit showing up around the time of her "Saturday Night Live" appearance on Oct. 18.

As first reported by Newsweek on Wednesday, McCain aides said some of that money was spent on clothing for Palin's children and husband, Todd, who may have received between $20,000 and $40,000 in wardrobe purchases. The money also included thousands of dollars in shoes. Several aides also said the items included jewelry, but a Palin aide disputed that.

Top McCain aides Schmidt, Rick Davis and Nicolle Wallace were flabbergasted by the magnitude of the spending as the receipts began trickling into the Republican National Committee, aides said.

Wallace had arranged for a stylist to shop for Palin before the convention because the Alaska governor did not have a chance to return home after she was selected as McCain's running mate.

Aides familiar with the campaign's internal discussions said Wallace and other top aides authorized the purchase of three outfits for Palin to wear during convention week and three ensembles for the campaign trail. But cost was to be kept to no more than $25,000 to $35,000.

When Schmidt learned that Palin's staff was putting clothing purchases on personal credit cards, aides said he called them to stop it.

Palin aides tell a different story. Several close to the governor said Wednesday that Palin was outraged by the amount of money being spent on her clothing and that she was naive about what the clothes cost.

"The very first day of shopping, there was a $14,000 price tag and . . . she was absolutely shocked," one of the Palin aides said.

Palin was not pleased by what had been selected for her, the aide said, adding that "a lot of that stuff that was purchased was never worn by her -- that was by her choice."

When the shopping spree hit the press, she appeared frustrated, telling audiences that she wears a lot of her own clothing and hadn't asked for the lavish purchases.

Resentments had started to brew earlier. Palin was not comfortable with the team of handlers sent by party headquarters to manage her appearances, and there were frequent conflicts between the staff at headquarters and her traveling staff. Palin felt constrained by the fact that she had little decision-making power, and questioned the directions being given to her by the campaign, an aide said.

In an interview with CNN on Wednesday, Palin denied that there were tensions with the McCain camp. But that is at odds with accounts from aides on both sides. The strain worsened, the aides said, after Palin was recorded talking to a Canadian comedian who pretended to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy.

Campaign staffers said McCain's top aides were blindsided by the call, which they said was approved by Palin foreign policy aide Steve Biegun.

McCain aides said the Palin camp did notify McCain's senior staff or the State Department about the supposed contact. Outraged, Schmidt organized a conference call. He demanded to know who had arranged the call, and questioned why anyone would have agreed to such an unusual request and then failed to clear it with top staff, McCain aides said.

Biegun immediately took responsibility. In an interview Wednesday, he said some aides at McCain headquarters were in fact aware of the call, and that it had been on the schedule for "a couple days."

"I was fooled," he said. "No one's going to beat me up more than I beat myself up for setting up the governor like that."

Reston and Mehta are Times staff writers.


---Palin lays low as interview requests pile up---
By RACHEL D'ORO
06-Dec-2008 18:53:15 PST
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h21ZbzgPbTVRftcJPT5vkHkonY5QD949QT2G0

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Gov. Sarah Palin hadn't been back home in Alaska for a full day and her staff had begun fielding requests Thursday for postelection interviews, including from Barbara Walters, Oprah Winfrey, Larry King and others.

Palin had been expected at her office in Anchorage but later notified her staff that she wouldn't show up after all. She remained at her home in Wasilla, located 40 miles to the north, but was expected in her office on Friday, spokesman Bill McAllister said.

"The intensity of all the interest is amazing. Everyone wants to talk to her," he said.

Palin is coming off a whirlwind nine weeks of almost nonstop travel and campaigning since becoming Republican John McCain's vice presidential running mate in late August. McCain and Palin lost Tuesday's election to Democrats Barack Obama and Joe Biden.

"I think she's been working from home," McAllister said. "Maybe she just liked the idea of spending a whole day at home. It could be the first time she woke up in her own bed and spent the night in her own bed on the same day since late August."

Aides to McCain and Palin, meanwhile, responded to reports of tension between the two sides over the Republican Party's purchase of more than $150,000 worth of clothing for Palin and her family, and accusations that Palin was ill-prepared for her role.

Randy Scheunemann, McCain's foreign policy adviser, called the idea of a split between the two campaigns "laughable."

"It's hard to believe these people worked for John McCain. They obviously have no loyalty to John McCain and no loyalty to his running mate," said Scheunemann, who prepared Palin for the vice presidential debae.

"I've worked in Washington for over 20 years. I have seen literally dozens of politicians, and Sarah Palin is as smart, tough and focused as any politician I've ever seen. I'm proud of the time I was able to spend with her," he said.

Meg Stapleton, a campaign spokeswoman for Palin, said the accusations were unfortunate.

"We have the highest regards for Sen. John McCain," she said in an e-mailed statement. "Gov. Palin was honored to be chosen as McCain's running mate."

Palin returned to Alaska late Wednesday night, her final flight in the McCain-Palin campaign plane. Dozens of supporters greeted her with chants of "2012! 2012!" as she walked off the airplane — encouragement for her to run for president in four years.

Asked by reporters if she might run, Palin said: "We'll see what happens then."

The governor said she hoped to work with President-elect Obama on energy policy.

She returned home after spending Tuesday night in Phoenix, where she watched election returns with McCain.