It gets even better. Lowery: "Bushies assigned to Palin let her down and then turned on her."

[jefferson_dem]

:popcorn:

The split over Palin, of course, poisoned everything at the end. One of the dividing lines was between her communications team and the policy advisers. The communications team seemed to consider her a dolt, while the policy people—like Steve Biegun and Randy Scheunemann—were impressed with her and her potential. As one McCain aide told me, "It's the difference between considering her someone who lacks knowledge and someone who is incompetent, and they treated her as the latter."

By many accounts, the relationship between Palin and the staff assigned by the campaign to travel with her on her plane was dysfunctional and even hostile from the beginning. “She would have been better served if she had asked a couple of people to be removed from her traveling staff," says one McCain aide.

Some McCain loyalists think the Bushies assigned to Palin let her down and then turned on her. This is a representative quote from someone from McCain world holding that view: "Look, she wasn't ready for this, obviously. Their job was to make her ready for this and they failed. So they unloaded on her. If they had an iota of loyalty to John McCain, they wouldn't have done it."

http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=OGIwNTU1OWJkOTYyYTVkYmMyNGFkNjZhOTQwM2FkMDI=

[dkf]

1. When Bushies have no respect for your intelligence you must be a

complete ignoramus.

[Demit]

2. Rich Lowry, he of the 'little starbursts' when watching Palin on tv? Ha ha ha ha!!

He just can't quit her.

[LiberalFighter]

3. Why was it necessary to have Steve Biegun who had been a senior Russia expert?

I thought Palin was an expert on Russia being able to see Russian from Alaska.

[Raschel]

4. Their job was to make her ready? That's not a job, that's an impossible mission.