WP: McCain Camp are "seriously considering" having McCain and Palin campaign together on the road

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/11/AR2008091103789_2.html?sid=ST2008091103925&s_pos=

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As she has been since McCain plucked her from relative obscurity two weeks ago, Palin continues to be surrounded by senior McCain advisers even here; the senator's top strategist, Steve Schmidt, and several others accompanied her to Alaska. The group is guiding Palin through a crash course on policy issues and is revising the campaign's original plan to send her on fundraising missions separately from McCain.

Instead, seeking to seize on the outpouring of enthusiasm for Palin, McCain advisers are "seriously considering" having McCain and Palin campaign together on the road. It would be an unusual arrangement -- running mates traditionally split up to cover as much ground as possible -- but aides believe it would help brand McCain and Palin as a single unit. It would also prevent Palin from having to contend with her own dedicated press contingent as she works to become more comfortable with an array of national and international issues. The campaign is also cognizant of the fact that McCain has consistently drawn bigger crowds since adding Palin to the ticket.

"It is under serious consideration that they will spend more time together than not, and more time together than is traditional," said a senior McCain adviser, speaking on the condition of anonymity. "They are a great duo together, from the perspective of delivering a message." The adviser added: "Sometimes these vice presidential selections, the pairings work in a magical way; they click."

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. Fact: Neither can stand alone on the campaign trail.

But for different reasons.

[renie408]

4. Exactly what I was going to say. He has no charisma, she has no ability to answer questions.

[Shine]

10. Yup. That's it, in a nutshell.

:eyes:

It's pretty pathetic, obviously.

[FlaDem83]

2. Well, certainly the pairing of McCain and Palin

is magical...he called her his soulmate, right??

Hopefully the msm will see through the charada and publicize it for what it is to the mouthbreathers.

[lutefisk]

3. I hope Todd and Cindy go, too. It's a circus....n/t

[Virginia Dare]

16. The pregnant daughter, the baby daddy, all the kids, the infant..

hell yeah, a regular entourage.

[bullwinkle428]

I get such a Beverly Hillbillies/Munsters/Addams Family vibe

from the whole group! I just cracked myself up laughing over the image of Cindy, playing the role of Morticia Addams, with those cold, shark eyes, delivering the rhythmic finger-snaps...

DA-DA-DA-DA! SNAP! SNAP!

DA-DA-DA-DA! SNAP! SNAP!

[Virginia Dare]

5. McCain is fizzling fast..

how pathetic is it that he has to hide behind this woman's skirts just to drum up minimal enthusiasm for his campaign. He has now sold his soul for the umpteenth time, this time it's to the fundie cultists who follow her around like a patron saint.

MCSHAME!!!

[Kermit77]

7. Palin is now McCain's crutch

Can you imagine McCain's crowds compared to her crowds if they separate? McCain doesn't want to be embarrassed.

[Virginia Dare]

13. The second he ran out from behind mommy Palin in Philly the other day..

the Obama supporters shouted him down. He can't possibly keep this charade up for another month and a half.

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. ...or perhaps his crotch...

[quispquake]

6. No problem...

We've got two amazing people out there going to different places, covering two places at once. They've got two people who together don't make a functional human being touring together, and only hitting half the places we can. Sounds great to me...

[polichick]

8. He always needs "his mommy" there - I guess Cindy isn't cutting it anymore.

[Greg K]

9. It'd be embarrassing to McCain if Palin outdraws him everywhere. nt

[gblady]

11. this statement....

"Sometimes these vice presidential selections, the pairings work in a magical way; they click."

is like putting chocolate sauce on a pile of crap....who are they trying to fool?

[sabra]

12. "putting chocolate sauce on a pile of crap" - LOL - should Obama used that

instead of "lipstick on a pig" ?

[Virginia Dare]

15. Looks positively magical here doesn't it?

[WinkyDink]

14. Fine. Cuts their ability to persuade in half.

[bullwinkle428]

17. If they can only survive being joined at the hip, how will it work

if something happens to him a month into office?

I realize the Obama campaign can't actually say this, but WE as citizens have to push this meme the way an NFL lineman pushes a blocking sled down the field!

[terrya]

18. Um...isn't that what they're doing right now?

How would that be any different?

[sabra]

20. they initially said that Palin would go on the road on her own in the coming

weeks - so a little flip flop action