Report: McCain Aides Complain That Palin Is "Clueless"

Radio talk show host Ed Schultz reports:

Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin. The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."

On Friday, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker said that after seeing Palin in interviews, she thinks the vice presidential nominee should drop out.

Comments

[sugarmoes]

05:01 PM on 09/29/2008

poor palin... when asked to be veep she thought about bush as president and said "ahhhh kin do dat dere presidentin thang",,, she forgot to consider though that bush is the...

WORST PRESIDENT EVER AND FIRST PRESIDENT EVER HEADED FOR WAR CRIMES ARREST, TRIAL, AND IMPRISONMENT... unless he makes it to paraguay first.

CAIN'T GIT FOOLED AGIN!!!! HEH HEH... YEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAW!!!!!!!

[mnkors]

03:17 PM on 09/29/2008

She is the Rose of Pentecostal Church.
She will speak in tongues - to the American fundamentalists who put this country second by eagerly supporting Bush
However, her expensive jackets are really nice. Why the GOP price-checkers are so timid about the obviously very expensive tastes of this Alaskan puritan?
And why Palin's pregnant daughter is pushed on a screen; should not she be at school? - Or this is a family policy, to be as less educated as possible?

[Brillig]

01:27 PM on 09/29/2008

Her glasses were ugly until the stylists got her....

[chronic]

04:06 PM on 09/29/2008

That up-do hair and those glasses she wears is a mask. She thinks it makes her looks intelligent.

NOT!!

[seabass]

01:22 PM on 09/29/2008

disgrace to the gender...nasty and dumb

[boinusa]

01:02 PM on 09/29/2008

Hey all you GOP women, is Sarah all that you have and proud of, ? Could y'all not have done better " someone that acts and behaves like a 10th grader, is an insult to all women with normal intelligence.

[rkimball]

12:56 PM on 09/29/2008

this woman knows nothing about nothing. living close to russia doesn not make you an expert on foreign affairs.

[dlswriter]

10:43 AM on 09/29/2008

When she starts talking in tongues, she'll probably make more sense.

[gorgol]

10:35 AM on 09/29/2008

OH PEOPLE PEOPLE PEOPLE>..MCCAIN chose Palin because she used to be a beauty queen...his first wife was a beauty queen....his current wife used to be a beauty queen...I'm betting "VICKI" used to be a beauty queen...CAN'T WE PLEASE START CONNECTING THE DOTS?? GAAD.

[Juanon]

10:31 AM on 09/29/2008

Clueless? In what respect, Charlie?

[Gidster]

10:43 AM on 09/29/2008

From her interviews I would say, Clueless on world events, civics, history, economics, geography, science, and judging from what has surfaced about her beliefs, I would also add reality.

[Ulysse]

10:04 AM on 09/29/2008

Clueless is her middlename :

Sarah Clueless Palin

[researcher]

04:47 AM on 09/29/2008

if biden destroys her obama could lose election

americans dont vote for vp's

be gentle with her and let her self destruct

all on her own

[lylo]

12:20 PM on 09/29/2008

No, Americans don't vote for VPs. However, there is no reason the 'knife thrower' shouldn't tear in to this light weight.
The GOP sticks to talking points. If Biden can press her and press her and press her to move past talking points, that's when she will screw up BIG. If he is TOO gentle, she'll just walk away having stuck to what she knows.

[lastone]

01:06 PM on 09/29/2008

yes.

lead her to her own demise but do not kick her over the edge

clinton supporters would see it as attacking a woman and revolt

[Yuma]

01:30 AM on 09/29/2008

She knows ...... How to lie to the nation!

[humblediplomat]

12:28 AM on 09/29/2008

It will depend a lot on the questions asked and the debate format. If they ask her questions about abortion, gay marriage, the war on terror and earmarks, she should easily be able to recite the same Republican talking points that we have heard over and over for years. All she needs to do is satisfy the base and that's not too hard.

[hangdogit]

02:26 PM on 09/29/2008

Yes, no matter what she says or does, she will satisfy the base -- they are idiots. Her problem is with Independents, Hillary voters and Reagan Democrats -- they are the key to the election.

[UrbanRevolution]

11:59 PM on 09/28/2008

"ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy,"~Palin

enough said

[bonnielynn]

11:19 PM on 09/28/2008

IS THE COUNTRY GONE CRAZY? All Palin has proven she can do thus far is READ a speech that was written for her...that's ALL!...she's a below average lightweight...she has NO business as a candidate...in fact she's SO clueless that she didn't have the sense to say "Thanks, but no thanks" to the candidacy!...the only reason why she's had any popularity at all given the facts of her life and experience is that the Evangelicals don't read and don't care...they'll vote for her ONLY because she's an Evangelical...they like to think that they put country first and have a corner on patriotism, but the Palin factor proves otherwise!