"Get control of her! Get her ass off stage!" - McCain staffer on Palin Election Night

[RamboLiberal]

On the "Early Show" on CBS, authors Scott Conroy and Shushannah Walshe said Tuesday there was a "remarkable internal war" at the end of the campaign between Palin and McCain's teams when the VP candidate was told she could not deliver a concession speech. "Governor Palin tried to create some confusion" so that she would be able to speak, but she ultimately failed. "It really turned into an all-out civil war," Walshe said. On election night, Palin went back out onstage to take pictures with her family and McCain's staff was so terrified that she would give a speech after all that they turned out the lights on her.

According to a copy of the book obtained by Huffington Post, when senior McCain aide Carla Eudy heard the news, she immediately called campaign manager Steve Schmidt, who barked, "Take the set down. Unplug it."

The McCain staff didn't believe Palin's claim that she just wanted to take pictures with her family on stage - to one aide, it sounded like a "dubious cover story."

Even as the stage crew dimmed the lights, Palin and family stood there and waved at the dwindling crowd.

When she found out what was happening, an incensed Carla Eudy called (Palin advisor Jason) Recher to express her displeasure. "You never had control of her," she said, according to Recher. "Get control of her! Get her ass off stage!"


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/03/sarah-from-alaska-book-mc_n_343660.html

On edit Daily Beast has her Lost Speeches - The Victory & the Concession.

Best Lines from Palin’s Undelivered Concession Speech:

•“If (Obama) governs America with the skill and grace we have often seen in him, and the greatness of which he is capable, we’re gonna be just fine.”

•“Now it is time for us go our way, neither bitter nor vanquished, but instead confident in the knowledge that there will be another day.”

•“It would be a happier night if elections were a test of valor and merit alone, but that is not for us to question now.”

•“I told my husband Todd to look at the upside: Now, at least, he can clear his schedule, and get ready for championship title number five in the Iron Dog snow machine race!”

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-11-03/sarah-palins-lost-victory-speech/?cid=hp:blogunit1

[tblue]

1. I second that! nt

[Brickbat]

2. I have to admit that as long as she doens't ever hold power again, I will not get tired of reading

dirt about her. But then, I sometimes watch shows like "I Love New York." :hide:

[itsrobert]

3. Isn't this information already known?

I thought I read about this a long time ago.

[RamboLiberal]

5. There's a new book on her out today Sarah from Alaska

from a couple of reporters that were embedded in McCain's campaign. And this is the first time I've heard about the "Get her ass off stage".

Of course we all heard right after the election she wanted to give a speech that night. Just watching her you could sense it.

[EFerrari]

4. Palin sounds like an evil Lucy Ricardo.

lol

[KittyWampus]

7. Hilarious observation. Because, like anything funny, it's true.

[Z_I_Peevey]

10. !!!

Indeed.

If SarahLucy were on the bon-bon assembly line, she'd stuff the candies down Ethel's throat until the poor dear stopped struggling.

[Ignis]

14. ...And then she'd charge Ethel for the privilege. (nt)

[bleever]

18. THAT is funny.

:applause:

:hi:

[EFerrari]

21. Hey, bleever! How are you this Election Day

It's good to see you. :hi:

[bleever]

23. I'm good!

And frankly, I'm humbled to know the person who came up with both Caribou Barbie and Alaskan Lucy.

Can you believe this story??

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

24. Yes, I can believe it!

Pageant walking and all. :rofl:

[malaise]

20. DUzy

:rofl:

[EFerrari]

22. Your beautiful mind should get the DUzy for imagination.

My mom and my godmother (her sister) were both on 'way on the Lucy side, so the type is always IMMEDIATELY apparent to me. In fact, my whole extended family is chock full of con artists. Good thing they're sweeties, too. lol

[malaise]

26. Seriously that was very very good

:hi:

[Wounded Bear]

6. Paranoia strikes deep....

Into your life it will creep.
It starts when you're always afraid.
Step out of line, the man comes
and takes you away.

:evilgrin:

[RamboLiberal]

8. Excerpt from the book about her determination to campaign

in Michigan when McCain had given it up.

Palin replied that she "got it," but her subsequent interview with Cameron had shown that she hadn't. She acknowledged as much in a postinterview e-mail to senior staff, writing, "Oops-I mentioned something about that to Carl Cameron and it's now recorded that I'd love to give Michigan the ol' college try." Later in the day, she tried once more. "It's a cheap 4hr drive from WI. I'll pay for the gas," she wrote.

Though senior aides had firmly rejected her request, Palin continued to press them on it in the coming days and weeks. A natural optimist but a novice when it came to national campaign strategy, she was inclined not to give up anywhere, much less on a state that had been a prime target for months. She remembered the massive crowds that had greeted her and McCain in Macomb County the day after the convention ended and in Grand Rapids a couple of weeks later. They were good, God-fearing, salt-of-the-earth people. She figured that she could introduce them to her husband, who liked to ride snowmobiles and hunt, just like Michiganders did. Her instincts told her that if she just had a chance to talk to some laid-off automobile workers face-to-face, she could convince them to vote Republican.

"I know what I know what I know." She repeated that mantra to the people around her throughout the campaign. Sometimes she was right, but her growing determination to do things her own way became a continuing headache for the campaign's strategists, who were more interested in polling data and documented fact than they were in the vice presidential candidate's instincts.

Palin sat in her hotel suite in Costa Mesa, California, on the night after the Cameron interview and began to muse with traveling staffers about what she could do to win back Michigan, despite top aides' firm decree that it was out of reach. She was the candidate after all, and it was time for her to take more control over her own destiny. What if they descended upon the state unannounced in the middle of the night and brought Jay Leno or David Letterman along to cover the triumphant surprise visit? Several of her traveling aides loved the idea, as unorthodox as it sounded. There was a growing consensus on the plane that the powers that be at headquarters were holding her back unwisely. The late-night comedian idea was probably pushing it, but maybe they could wait until the next time they were in Ohio and commandeer the campaign bus at the end of the day's events. They could drive it across the border into Michigan, hold a dramatic public appearance to draw in local media, then drive back to Ohio overnight in time for the next day's rallies.

Though many of her aides were on board with her sentiment, other campaign staffers were becoming irritated by how often she brought up her ideas for campaigning in Michigan. There was a growing sense that the vice presidential plane was becoming a renegade operation, increasingly comfortable with acting on its own. Rick Davis was so concerned about the possibility that the governor would ignore orders and travel to Michigan on her own that he attempted to order Secret Service agents to prevent it. Of course, agents would have been obliged to follow the candidate wherever she decided to go.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/02/politics/main5501457.shtml

[tanyev]

16. Wow. The narcissism knows no bounds.

Her book should be very, uh, interesting. I know I can't wait to find out how many points she scored in some of her high school basketball games.

[TxRider]

29. Just goes to show candidates don't actually run any more, their campaign staffs run for office.

[damntexdem]

9. Well, they were able to achieve the second goal.

No one seems to have been able to accomplish the first, least of all Sarah herself. ;-)

[Ocracoker16]

11. that woman never fails to make me laugh

[Arugula Latte]

12. Remember how awkward McCain's concession speech was?

Barely a mention of the Wasilla Witch.

[RamboLiberal]

13. More from the book

Conroy and Walshe also write of Palin's desire to inject her Christianity into speeches, which McCain aides had urged her to tone down:

Palin was the kind of Christian who felt comfortable expressing her face in public, which the speech reflected: I will remember all the people who siad they were praying for me. She squeezed another handwritten line n the margin....You prayer warriors have been my strength and my shield.

The authors portray election night as deeply anticlimactic for Palin - not only was she denied the opportunity to speak, but there was no real post-campaign celebration with the McCains. Instead, Palin and her entourage accidentally ran into McCain in the parking lot as they were making a quiet exit. McCain's wife Cindy was already inside the Chevy suburban when Palin halted them by calling out "John, is that you?". Here's Conroy and Walshe:

The now former running mates exchanged final pat-on-the-back hugs and a muffled thank you or two. There was no discussion about the shared experience they had just completely and no photograph to memorialize the gloomy occasion, as there had been on that buoyant day in Arizona nine weeks earlier when he had asked her to be his running mate. As some of Palin's staffers gazed at the scene, they marveled at its awkwardness. McCain was never one for overwrought sappiness, but this was a strikingly anticlimactic way to end his partnership with Palin.

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/11/03/sarah-from-alaska-election-details-uncovered-in-new-palin-book.aspx

[Berry Cool]

15. "Prayer warriors." Oh, Lord. Literally.

This is soooooo inappropriate for a candidate for VP of the USA that it's not even funny.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

17. As bad as the whole thing was back then with McCain/Palin '08

It could have been even worse.

YIKES!!!!!

Of course, it's not like she's been very *shy* about "sharing" with us how she feels about President Obama since the election, however (and we're all dumber for having heard her speak/write). :eyes:

[dixiegrrrrl]

19. You gotta wonder about this book when you see a line like this:

"she'd had a hard time reigning in her smile"

reigning?????????
she was "ruling "in her smile?????
Oh, yeah..the authors are from: Fox and one is a "digital reporter" for CBS.

[Caretha]

25. Yep, and A-1 editors too...

oh well in a few years or so, no one will give a flip, it will be Sara who?

[malaise]

27. Bet the party is screaming this today

but not in public - Bwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! Go Sarah! Keep on doing what you're doing!

[Kablooie]

28. Boy she would have made a great President of the United States. (Maybe she still will! Brrrr. )

If we don't get a health plan that works, the Repubs and Palin may have another shot at the title.