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The Note: New Questions Dog McCain-Palin Ticket
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ABC News' Rick Klein reports in Tuesday's Note:
ST. PAUL, Minn. --
What did John McCain know, and when did he know it?
We will get a full Republican National Convention back, starting Tuesday. (Sen. Joe Lieberman and former Sen. Fred Thompson help get us from telethon to television -- and President Bush will get his address via satellite, for better and worse, while Rudy Giuliani gets bumped to another night.)
But even if we didn’t get back on track, just think of what we’ve been through together already. A storm blew through St. Paul, Monday -- and there was a hurricane you may have heard about, too.
And behind the news about Gov. Sarah Palin’s daughter (biology as pushback?) is a pregnant series of questions about Sen. John McCain: Did he know, really and fully, what he was getting into? Does his campaign regret the choice, even a little bit? What does all of this say about his judgment?
(How many more stories before Palin = “Northern Exposure,” and how long a trip is it from there to Tom Eagleton/Harriet Miers territory?)
Read the rest of The Note -- and get all the latest on the 2008 election, Congress, the White House and the wide world of politics every day -- from Rick Klein by bookmarking this link.
(And while we’re waiting for those answers -- Sen. Barack Obama will be George Stephanopoulos’ exclusive headliner Sunday on ABC’s “This Week.”)
It was a good political day to dump Palin information, as Gustav wasn’t quite dumping its wrath on the Gulf Coast. But this starts to add up:
“Among other less attention-grabbing news of the day: it was learned that Ms. Palin now has a private lawyer in a legislative ethics investigation in Alaska into whether she abused her power in dismissing the state’s public safety commissioner; that she was a member for two years, in the 1990s, of the Alaska Independence Party, which has, at times, sought a vote on whether the state should secede; and that Mr. Palin was arrested 22 years ago on a drunken driving charge,” Elisabeth Bumiller writes in The New York Times.
“We are going to flush the toilet,” new McCain-Palin aide Tucker Eskew (yes, THE Tucker Eskew) tells the Times.
Things Team McCain may have wanted done, say, last week: “Aides to Mr. McCain said they had a team on the ground in Alaska now to look more thoroughly into Ms. Palin’s background,” Bumiller reports. “A Republican with ties to the campaign said the team assigned to vet Ms. Palin in Alaska had not arrived there until Thursday, a day before Mr. McCain stunned the political world with his vice presidential choice.”
Continue reading today's Note by clicking HERE.
ABC News' Hope Ditto contributed to this report.
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Obama and the MSM will regret messing with Maverick and the Barracuda. The backlash by American voters will be fierce
Posted by: geevill | Sep 2, 2008 9:20:31 AM
Obama and the MSM are trying to force Palin to quit. Won't happen. Obama is toast.
Posted by: geevill | Sep 2, 2008 9:23:27 AM
Is George going to try and ask Obama about Ayers again?
Will Obama tell us why his team tried to prevent the press from reviewing the Anneburg Challange records?
Posted by: susie | Sep 2, 2008 9:25:08 AM
So what are considered relevant and worthy attacks on Governor Palin? National politics is a brutal business - and Gov Palin had no idea what she was subjecting her family to. .............
http://thefiresidepost.com/2008/09/02/regarding-attacks-on-sarah-palin/
Posted by: Ohg Rea Tone | Sep 2, 2008 9:26:30 AM
What's the point in veting her now? Is McCain really going to drop her from the ticket if he finds something nasty after the nomination?
Posted by: johnTX | Sep 2, 2008 9:30:26 AM
and Obama/Biden has no idea how tough this woman is.
Posted by: geevill | Sep 2, 2008 9:31:30 AM
So she was a member of a political group whose stated goals are to secede from the United States.
It's not like that is treason or anything. Oh wait.
Posted by: johnTX | Sep 2, 2008 9:33:22 AM
Sarah Palin even lied about being named "Miss Congeniality". Amy Gwin won the title, not Ms Palin. Sounds like this family has serious issues. Maybe Dr. Phil would be winning to help.
Posted by: Chuck | Sep 2, 2008 9:34:48 AM
Was there any vetting at all done on this woman? And if so - and this is an example of how McCain runs things, heaven help America if the ignorant actually do put him in the White House.
Posted by: Deep Release | Sep 2, 2008 9:36:22 AM
What happened to abstinence only? This is about judgment.
Posted by: brianFL | Sep 2, 2008 9:39:51 AM
geevil, your political leader is facing another blunder, his first choice after being presumptive nomminee is another lack of judgement with his selection of a Paulin as VP candidate, a clear and real demonstration of his incapacity to lead the greatest nation on earth. McSame or McWBush was trying to please the evangelical base and now he is in deep trouble because of his misjudgement.
Posted by: BKMC | Sep 2, 2008 9:39:57 AM
The President of the United States appoints over 6,000 positions in the government. With the level of vetting done on Palin, there is no way I'd trust the McCain camp to vet them.
Posted by: johnTX | Sep 2, 2008 9:39:59 AM
I guess this is part of the vetting process. If hypocrisy exists for any reason on any issue, it should be divulged, but I do hope they leave the daughter alone.
Posted by: Ben Straub | Sep 2, 2008 9:40:20 AM
Wait until Obama gets vetted.
Posted by: geevill | Sep 2, 2008 9:48:32 AM
It's so nice to see Democrats attack women vociferously. So much for a woman's right to "choose" life. I guess to Democrats "choice" is about as meaningful as the word "change." Ah well, go ahead ladies, eat your own, and put another padlock on that glass celing. Only you can't blame the men this time. Hypocrites!
Posted by: argh! | Sep 2, 2008 9:49:07 AM
It's funny how a lot of people posting here act like they personally know Palin, I think you know as much as the media is telling you and its not too much. It can all turn out good for her or it can turn out bad.
Posted by: Kathy | Sep 2, 2008 9:49:35 AM
geevil:"Obama and the MSM will regret messing with Maverick and the Barracuda."
Can you offer ANY cite of Obama "messing with" Palin over any of the dirt coming out - the pregnancy, ongoing troopergate, her husband's dui, etc? All I have heard is him stating quite bluntly it's not relevant, following up with a promise to fire anyone in his campaign caught pushing it, and even pointing out that he himself was the son of an 18 year old.
It is blatant lying to say that Obama is pushing this, just as it would be blatant lying to say McCain is pushing the absurd "he's a muslim sleeper agent!!1!!1" crap slung in the outer reaches of the right's blogosphere.
Posted by: jhw539 | Sep 2, 2008 9:56:10 AM
This is pure Alexrod/Obama. they did the same thing to Clinton. Not everyone has forgotten that.
Posted by: geevill | Sep 2, 2008 9:58:11 AM
What else do we need to know more about the Miss Alaska runner-up, beautiful, yong, major of a small town,governor of a small state, member of the separatist movement of Alaska and the Brigade. Bottom line, she has no knowledge, no experience in dealing with national and international issues and policies. McSame's lack of judgement has put Paulin and her family in jeopardy. God save America form McPaulin.
Posted by: BKMC | Sep 2, 2008 9:59:02 AM
It would be nice (but impossible) for the media to give Obama the same king of vetting they are giving Sarah Palin.
The media is for free speech but do not mention Obama's efforts to squash free speech by trying to prevent an investigation into his relationship with Ayers and the Anneburg Challange.
Posted by: susie | Sep 2, 2008 9:59:05 AM
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