Special thread for Monday. I saw 60 minutes last night on how Palin was picked as Veep by McCain and I was on the floor laughing hard.
Here is part of the segment by Anderson Cooper interviewing McCain's campaign manager, Steve Schmidt:
Among their revelations is how McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis, spotted Sarah Palin while searching the Internet for possible female vice presidential candidates.
"Rick Davis saw one interview she did with Charlie Rose where she was very much the Sarah Palin that people find appealing. She was lively, she was engaging, she popped off the screen. And he said, 'Wow, she jumps out,'" Halperin said.
"McCain boxed himself in. He needed a game-changing pick for vice president. And that left them with a last minute pick of someone who was, to McCain, a virtual stranger, and was, to his senior staffers, an absolute stranger," he added.
And this:
In public, Palin looked like the game changer McCain had wanted, but in private, the authors say she was struggling to learn too much too fast.
"Her foreign policy tutors are literally taking her through, 'This is World War I, this is World War II, this is the Korean War. This is the how the Cold War worked.' Steve Schmidt had gone to them and said, 'She knows nothing,'" Heilemann told Cooper. "A week later, after the convention was over, she still didn't really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea. She was still regularly saying that Saddam Hussein had been behind 9/11. And, literally, the next day her son was about to ship off to Iraq. And when they asked her who her son was going to fight, she couldn't explain that."
Still, Schmidt says she was a quick study. "And her focus was extraordinary. She was working 15, 16 hours a day," he said. "And we were pleased with the result. We were very pleased with the results."
And this:
They flew her to McCain's ranch in Arizona. Schmidt said he took over the debate prep and simplified it. And Palin began doing well, except for one persistent problem: she kept confusing Joe Biden's name with Obama's, calling him "O'Biden."
Read the whole transcript on 60 minutes. Click here.
Was it just a folksy question or part of a deliberate strategy? McCain's campaign strategist Steve Schmidt has the surprising behind-the-scenes answer. Here is the video:
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2 comments:
Wow...how good it is that Obama won.
I mean the way McCain picked the twit, she had tutors on the different wars, and she still could not remember..........and worst yet she was Governor of a State. Way too scary.
The Gerbil had many handlers (tutors) and he still never got it right, is this the new way of the GOP, have a twit in some high office that needs lots of handlers (tutors) or whatever you want to cal them.
Who knew all it took to be VP was putting her name on Google and having a tape on You Tube wearing a short skirt and showing some leg. Brains and qualifications don't matter in America only if you put out. Now somebody at Fox News got lucky and gave her a job for what she gave him. No way could she get the job on qualifications when she still doesn't know why there is a North/South Korea. Levi Johnson said all of this but no one believed him until this book proves it. Just think of all the Americans are getting their education from Sarah Palin. Diane/Katie better watch out Sarah's on the move and ready to kick Brian Williams out of his seat. Yes Sarah will push Diane/Katie out quick as Sarah uses sex to get to the top and those ladies aren't in Sarah's league.
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