Palin A "Whack Job," Top McCain Adviser Says

One of John McCain's advisers recently called his running mate Sarah Palin a "diva" after she went off-script at a rally, and suggested she was looking after her own political future over the current campaign. Now another adviser ups the ante in a conversation with the Politico's Playbook, labeling Palin a "whack job."

Meanwhile, Dana Milbank reports on more signs of division between McCain and his running mate on the stump:

"Sarah Oh-Twelve!" bellowed a man in field coat and jeans, one of several thousand at the Leesburg rally, when Palin spoke about her tax policies yesterday.

The oh-twelve message, if mathematically flawed, seemed to capture the crowd's sentiment. There were "I [Heart] Palin" bumper stickers on cars, "Team Sarah" T-shirts in pink, "Sarah!" pins and countless signs: "You Go Girl." "You're in Palin Country." "Maverick Barracuda." One of the souvenir vendors said his most popular offering was a pin showing Palin next to a pit bull and the usual "McCain-Palin" logo reversed, with her name first and in larger letters.

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The diva made sure to spend some time on her "own track record" in Alaska, particularly all the taxes she cut. "Sarah! Sarah!" the crowd chanted.

"So, Virginia, will you hire us?" she asked. "Will you send us to Washington?"

"Yes, we will! Yes, we will!"

In 2012, that is.

Comments

[NCIndependent]

Oh please. I dont know why pundits and the like are pretending that Sarah Palin is a viable candidate for President. She will not be the candidate in 2012. Her lack of intelligence wont change or lack of understanding of anything outside of Alaska. Four years wont make much of a difference, you cant reverse a lifetime of ignorance and stupidity in four years. It took her five years and six colleges to get a degree in jouralism and she still cant speak English.
There is no there, there!

[TParrish]

Actually, I wouldn't be suprised if she IS the candidate.­..or A candidate in 2012. As a dumber than dirt, ultra conservative, right wing c h ris tian, she is the current Neo Con poster girl. She can, by the way, speak English...­or read it, anyway. As painful as it might be, locate a video of her "policy speech", or the video of her news conference with Stevens, and you'll hear her without the twang, and not dropping her g's. She is, in fact, changing the way she talks to the "unwashed". It's insulting, and yet they don't see it.

[necer65]

People are stupid if they believe that she is President material. Come on ... does this mean any body can run for President.­..if they have no educational backgroud or experience. Palin does not speak for me in anyway. As a woman, I am ashammed and embarrassed by this woman. I can't believe that some people think so little of our country that they would want to put this woman in charge of it.

[Just2stressed]

Hasn't the polls prove to you, by now, that people are stupid? Sen. Obama should leading Sen. McCain by a lot more...but­, there are the crazies out there, who still believe Sen. McCain is the one to lead this country.

[ravjav]

I think that has a lot to do with racisim. There are still people out there who won't vote for a black candidate for president even if they won't come out and say it. All the BS about Obama being a commie, socialist, muslim, not like us, anti american, its all code for scary black boogeyman (or the N word).

[garymc8]

He is. The polls are lying. Bought and paid for by the gop

[Davwbaird]

She will be president before she formally runs for that office.

[munki]

Don't finger point at her... McCain selected her...
Keep dirty laundry behind your curtain...

[TruthfullyYours]

2012? you've got to be kidding!! after this election, palin is cooked and done with. on second thought, maybe she can try. mitt romney or mike huckabee will shred her to pieces when the time comes (before obama, if she gets that far). or, maybe the alaskan voters will shred her to pieces in 2010, if not before.

[Whinger]

Around this neck of the woods she would be called a scatter brain, like scarecrow a long way to go!

[Rog49Thomas]

Wait just a minute this makes no sense to me.

If your party has a delusional ideology, how can you identify the whack jobs.

Isn't one delusion (as long as it fits the bigger hallucination) as good as the next?

Whack job indeed.

[EvenSteven88]

Oh, please let her run in '12. That just guarantees O another four years in office.