McCain Campaign Stands Up Palin Truth-Squadding Team

[sabra]

:crazy:

http://marcambinder.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/09/mccain_campaign_stands_up_pali.php

The McCain campaign is standing up a truth-squadding operation designed to push what they deem as "smears" about Gov. Sarah Palin out of circulation.

The team, headquartered in Arlington, includes Mark Paoletta, a former chief counsel for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Edward O'Callaghan, a former federal prosecutor for the Southern District, and Brian Jones, a GOP strategist and former RNC research director. Jones, who stepped down as the campaign's communications director last June, and Paoletta, who became a senior adviser to the campaign in August, are volunteers; O'Callaghan is on staff.

The campaign plans to announce the team's existence today in the wake of a report by John Fund about Democratic operatives and lawyers scouring Anchorage for dirt about Palin.

"We're meeting it head on," said Brian Rogers, a campaign spokesperson.

The campaign will dispatch high-profile surrogates -- mostly women -- to combat false info in the press, and the campaign will send "truth squad alerts" as warranted.

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National Members Of The Palin Truth Squad:

· Former Governor Jane Swift (R-MA)
· Governor Linda Lingle (R-HI)
· Lt. Governor Sean Parnell, (R-AK)
· Congresswoman Michele Bachmann (R-MN)
· Congressman Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)
· Congresswoman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)
· Congresswoman Thelma Drake (R-VA)
· Congresswoman Mary Fallin (R-OK)
· Congresswoman Virginia Foxx (R-NC)
· Congresswoman Kay Granger (R-TX)
· Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA)
< font face=Arial>· Congresswoman Candice Miller (R-MI)
· Congresswoman Sue Myrick (R-FL)
· Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL)
· Congresswoman Heather Wilson (R-NM)
· Jo Ann Davidson, RNC Co-Chair
· Rosario Marin, Former U.S. Treasurer
· Meg Stapleton, Former Aide To Governor Palin
· Kristan Cole, Lifelong Friend Of Governor Palin

State Members Of The Palin Truth Squad:

· Former Lt. Governor Jane Norton (CO)
· State Representative Amy Stephens (CO)
· State Board of Education Member Peggy Littleton (CO)
· State Representative Ellyn Bogdanoff (FL)
· County Commissioner Mildred Fernandez (FL)
· Former Iowa Senate President And Former U.S. Ambassador To The Eastern Caribbean, Mary Kramer (IA)
· State Representative Jackie Walorski (IN)
· State Representative Laura Brod (MN)
· Former GOP State Party Chairwoman And Former State Rep. Barb Sykora (MN)
· Jayne Millerick, Former NH GOP Chair (NH)
· State Senator Jennifer Beck, Honorary Co-Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· Assemblywoman Alison Littell McHose, Honorary Vice Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· Bergen County Clerk Kathe Donovan, Honorary Co-Chair NJ Women For McCain-Palin (NJ)
· DA Dona Ana County Susana Martinez (NM)
· Former Lt. Gov. Lorraine Bono-Hunt (NV)
· State Senator Barbara Cegavske (NV)
· State Assemblywoman Heidi Gansert (NV)
· Sue Lowden, Nevada GOP Chair (NV)
&# 183; Kay Ayres, OH GOP Vice Chair (OH)
· Betty Montgomery, Ohio Women For McCain-Palin Chair (OH)
· Mary Taylor, Ohio Auditor Of State (OH)
· Margie Hughes, Clackamas County Chair Of Women For McCain-Palin (OR)
· Linda Neace, West Linn Small Business Owner For McCain-Palin (OR)
· Deanna Smith, Women For McCain-Palin Chairwoman (OR)
· Renee Amoore, PA GOP Deputy Chair (PA)
· Joyce Haas, PA GOP Vice Chair (PA)
· State Senator Lisa Baker (PA)
· Diana Irey, Washington County Commissioner (PA)
· Christine Toretti, RNC National Committeewoman and McCain-Palin Pennsylvania Co-Chair (PA)
· Kim Ward, Westmoreland County Commissioner and McCain-Palin Pennsylvania Regional Chair (PA)
· Former First Lady Susan Allen (VA)
· Lori Ann Miller, Young Republican Federation Of VA Chairman (VA)
· Former Lt. Gov. Margaret Farrow (WI)
· Peggy Oban Boze, McCain-Palin Chairwomen For King County (WA)
· Susan McCaw, Former Ambassador To Austria (WA)
· Della Newman, Former Ambassador To New Zealand (WA)

[Ichingcarpenter]

1. Can they use the internet like John McCain?

They may get the airways but we rule the internet.

[yourguide]

2. Hmmm...

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[BrklynLib at work]

3. Every repuke woman they can get to lie. I cannot help but wonder what was promised to them...

Talk about folks who would vote agaisnt their own best interests!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This just pisses me off to no end. I sure hope that the women of this country are not as stupid and gillible as McSame and the barracuda think they are.:mad: :puke: :wtf: :grr: :nuke: :banghead:

I wonder how many of them are Christian Dominionists...or would like to live in a country ruled by them..Ironically, NONE of them would be allowed out of the house once the barracuda has her way with the government.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3958654

[nc4bo]

4. I feel queasy looking at the minions on that list. nt

[BrklynLib at work]

6. Absolutely...Really sick to my stomach.

[BrklynLib at work]

7. oops. Dupe

[Cha]

11. All those Losers listed

in one page.

[Beaverhausen]

5. all those people to defend lying Sarah. Maybe she should just answer a few questions

[pkz]

8. another reason for WV'ans

to dislike SM Capito

[Tempest]

9. They'll meet it head on, and fall flat on their faces

What is being reported about Palin is based upon evidence and her own words.

[TheKentuckian]

12. Trying to squash out the truth?

I thought that was part of the deal for a Republican.

Obama and Biden are getting to them. They're just a bit rattled.

[Tempest]

15. They're a lot rattled

Otherwise they wouldn't see a need for this charade.

[Cha]

10. No, they're bringing out more lies to try and bark

down the truth about palin.

[BrklynLib at work]

13. WE know that...but they are tryng to drown out the truth by banging on the drum of "Feminism"

I am afraid that this country is populated by too many people who just refuse to see the truth, or would not recognize it if it bit them on the ass.

[symbolman]

14. So where were all these people

when she was being vetted?

Silly me :)

Sort of like the Chickens all sticking up for Colonel Sanders when he's being led to the gallows..

[Life Long Dem]

16. That's alright, We have the Democratic Party, truth squad

:woohoo: :bounce:

What's that? 50+ million?