The Palin Factor: Playing the Blame Game

So, the elections over and we now have President-Elect Barack Obama heading to the white house in 2009. While the majority of the news media is covering this “historical election” there is a smaller portion that is obsessively focused on the McCain team. Trying to act as if McCain’s loss is some type of political enigma that needs to be deciphered political pundits, from both the left and the right, are lighting up the newscasts with “reasons why McCain lost”.

Or, well, I should say reason.

It would seem that the McCain staff has decided to place all of the blame on Sarah. Which, I have to be honest, is the most retarded thing that I have ever heard. However, because the mainstream media has loved being as much of a hinderence to Governer Palin as they possibly could, they’ve decided to dig up as much dirty laundry about Palin they can find now that the election is over with.

Why? Because Governer Palin could actually be a very powerful GOP candidate in 2012.

The nefarious McCain advisers and staffers will gleefully comply because they have suffered from unexpected jealousy ever since Governer Palin was announced to be running as McCain’s VP pick. Let’s run down the list of “grievences” that the McCain staff had woth Palin:

As late as Tuesday night, a McCain adviser said, Ms. Palin was pushing to deliver her own speech just before Mr. McCain’s concession speech, even though vice-presidential nominees do not traditionally speak on election night. But Ms. Palin met up with Mr. McCain with text in hand. She was told no by Mark Salter, one of Mr. McCain’s closest advisers, and Steve Schmidt, Mr. McCain’s top strategist.

I felt it was extremely odd that Palin didn’t even address the crowd. Considering that Palin was the most powerful figure on the ticket it almost seemed out of place not to have her give some type of final words, but I suppose since everyone was supposed to be focusing on John McCain that they didn’t want to draw any attention away from him in his final speech. However, considering how “gracious” his speech was I felt that what people needed to hear was something from Palin. The crowd didn’t want to take the high road. They wanted to hear promise and hope for the future.

McCain gave them praises for a Socialist.

Anyhow, moving back to the Palin blame game:

On Wednesday, two top McCain campaign advisers said that the clothing purchases for Ms. Palin and her family were a particular source of outrage for them. As they portrayed it, Ms. Palin had been advised by Nicolle Wallace, a senior McCain aide, that she should buy three new suits for the Republican National Convention in St. Paul in September and three additional suits for the fall campaign. The budget for the clothes was anticipated to be from $20,000 to $25,000, the officials said.

I find it pretty shallow to try and find fault in Governer Palin for buying $150,000 in clothing for her public appearances when Barack Obama was being given custom-fitted suits for each appearance and he had a greek f**king temple built for him at his nomination. It’s pretty freaking idiotic to point fingers at your OWN CANDIDATES when the opposing sides doing far far worse in terms of excessive spending for personal accomidations.

So, what’s the point of all of this back-biting? Jealousy is the only thing I can think of. That and the McCain staffers trying to remain politically relevent after their guy lost. I suppose that Schmidt and Salter figure they can try and continue their political lives if they throw Palin, a VP pick that was largely criticized by the beltway pseudo-conservatives, out and try and smear her name.

Fox News was claiming that Palin was “throwing tantrums” and “going rogue” by certain anonymous McCain staffers. Well, I would have thrown a tantrum too if I had to deal with the amount of stupidity that seemed to just flow from the McCain campaign in the last few weeks.

Did McCain address the economic issue by appropriately placing the blame of the economic housing crisis at the feet of certain democrats like Barney Frank and Barack Obama? Did he even try to bring to light that the Community Reinvestment Act and the corruption within Fannie Mae under Franklin Raines was also highly to blame?

Nope.

When the Reverend Wright issue appeared did McCain use Obama’s radical association as an example of Obama’s poor judgement in characters?

Nope.

When it was being investigated that Obama possibly had very radical and socialist views on how America should be governed did McCain try and use that information to possibly help his campaign?

Not really. It took Joe the Plumber asking a simple question to finally light a fire under the McCain campaign to address Obama’s “Redistribution of Wealth” ideals.

When the information that Obama was possibly friends with William Ayers, co-creator of the Weather Underground, started to arise did McCain try and use that as another means of showing that, perhaps, Obama tends to have pretty nefarious and radical associations?

Nope.

Did McCain properly address the ACORN issue?

Nope.

Did the McCain campaign even attempt to address ANYTHING appropriately that could have energized his base to stand behind him and win him the election?

NOPE.

The only, and I really mean this, ONLY good decision that the McCain campaign made during this election season was, in my opinion, one simple thing: He asked Sarah Palin to be his running mate.

That’s it.

Speaking as someone who had no intention of voting for McCain in the general election after it was revealed that he had won the Republican nomination (I was not happy that he was chosen as the nominee) I can honestly say that the only thing that got me exicted again about this election was Governer Sarah Palin. So, speaking as someone who had no intention to support McCain I find it absolutely appalling that the McCain campaign would practically turn on the one thing that even kept him in the race as long as he was able to.

I don’t know what 2012 will bring, but I can only hope that I’ll be able to put a “Palin 2012″ sign in my yard. If the rest of the cocktail conservatives (Kathleen Parker, Peggy Noonan, Buckley, etc etc etc.) don’t like it then get out of the party.