POLITICO: Palin may also suspend campaign

[Starbucks Anarchist]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20080925/pl_politico/13883

NEW YORK, N.Y. – John McCain's campaign has floated the possibility that Sarah Palin may also suspend her campaign, matching McCain’s announcement that he would cease campaigning for president to return to Washington to try to hammer out a fix for the nation’s financial meltdown.

As the governor of Alaska, Palin cannot participate in the high-level federal government deliberations on the economy that McCain gave as his reason for suspending his campaign.

Yet, after McCain’s dramatic announcement, his campaign chief Steve Schmidt suggested Palin, the Republican vice presidential nominee, would also suspend her campaign.

“We're going to take the ads down. They won't be traveling. There won’t be rallies,” Schmidt said when asked about Palin’s campaign, according to a rough transcription provided to reporters.

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[seabeyond]

1. let 'em. come on i double dare YA. do it, do it...... would eb terrific for us. n/t

[BlooInBloo]

2. And by "suspend campaign" they mean "NOT suspend campaign". Yawn.

[VolcanoJen]

40. Exactly. Nothing has been suspended.

McCain's toxic spokeswoman Nicole Wallace was all over NBC and MSNBC this morning, full of snark and bromide, ridiculing Obama and even suggesting he take one of his styrofoam pillars to Mississippi and debate it.

And Politico reports that McCain staffers are working away this morning, sending out their hourly emails and talking points. Here in Ohio I've seen three McCain ads just this morning, and other states are reporting the same.

This is a fucking farce.

[Butch350]

43. He'd probably get a better more informed response from that pillar

[Renew Deal]

3. It sounds like they are giving up.

This is absolutely bizarre. Either they're quiting or they already know the result.

[soulcore]

11. You can bet on the latter....

Hence the Army starting domestic operations October 1st.

[Fran Kubelik]

15. I don't understand the last part of your post,

[dkf]

4. After her Katie Couric interview, she needs some recovery time.

Heck, I felt traumatized for her. I can't imagine how she feels.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Yeah, she'll "suspend" by making appearances and having cameras

following her around, just like McLoser. This is such a fucking joke, it's unreal, but why isn't the media calling them out on it?

[RoadRage]

6. This is ALL in effort to get her out of that debate next week..

It'll be tough to explain why it needs to be cancelled (yes, cancelled - McCain DOES NOT WANT IT TO HAPPEN EVER.. she's not ready now, nor will she be in 4 weeks). By cancelling her "campaign".. it makes this whole charade even more plausible - to the base anyway.

[Curtland1015]

7. Wait... Palin's been campaigning!?

Since when!?

[dascientist]

27. stole my reply

[Clio the Leo]

8. Had she STARTED campaigning yet? NT

[DangerousRhythm]

38. Heh, that's the million dollar question. :)

She THINKS she has...

[newfie11]

9. and if the bailout is over then how will they explain the non debate theme.

[holboz]

10. So this is how they handle a "crisis"???

Christ. Who is running their campaign?

If they want to prove Palin can do the job then they ought to let her take the reigns as McCain goes to "save the country", as he told Letterman.

These people are INSANE, and I'm more scared than ever.

[babylonsister]

12. Bwhahaha! This is becoming surreal. What does she plan on

bringing to the economic table? Or, 'excuse me, I won't be able to participate in the only debate scheduled'.

An effective way to hide a future president of the US. Cripes, you can't make it up.

[PDittie]

13. Unilateral disarmament.

In the hopes that the American electorate will see their nobility and scorn the Democrats for not joining them. It's so Mavericky a political gambit, it's a wonder nothing like it has ever been done before.

[Colobo]

14. That campaign is falling apart.

[BOSSHOG]

16. Wouldn't that be like saying you are not going to drive the car thats been in the shed

for the past ten years. What campaign of hers will she suspend?

[ErinBerin84]

17. I assumed as much...

I mean, she IS part of the McCain campaign, correct? It's not like she ever really started anyways. She wasn't going to take over for him...the whole garbage about there not being any appearances or commericials is pretty hysterical though.

[harun]

18. What a scam. Anyone who still votes for these clowns needs to be ashamed of themselves (n/t)

[KansDem]

19. Isn't this the most bizarre campaign ever?

Perhaps a movie should be made about all this. It could be called "The Candidates Who Weren't There."

Or perhaps, "The Candidates Who Never Were"

I've never seen anything like this...

[SuperTrouper]

20. She should end her campaign

[BayouBengal07]

21. Are they trying to fall on their sword?

Woe is us! Pity the campaign!

And there was much wailing, gnashing of teeth, and ripping of clothes.

[blogslut]

22. Well, duh

That was the point that Letterman made last night. For all intents and purposes, McSame and Palin are one in the same. If he can't do the glad-handing and baby-kissing, it's her job to take over. Obviously, she's incapable of going solo without screwing up. That's why they keep her locked in her princess castle.

[Peacetrain]

23. WHAT?

[GreenEyedLefty]

24. Hubris: It's the word du jour.

"Excessive pride, presumption or arrogance."

These people have hubris in spades, man. Unfuckingbelievable.

[NC_Nurse]

25. So she can't walk and chew gum at the same time either?

Sheesh. :eyes:

[Divernan]

26. Any chance Sarah's preggers again? What with her bein' so hot and all!

According to her hometown "friends", she and her husband refused to consider sterilization/vasectomy, and birth control appears to be akin to practicing witchcraft. But it would be OK if she were VP AND pregnant, cause her oil-field roughneck/high school grad hubbie could take over her duties and call the shots, just like he's done in the Alaska governor's office.

The McCain campaign is beyond farce.

[lurky]

45. Ya know, I bet she would get a boost from that

among her core constituency. I wonder if they're going to try it. It would be like Fargo -- hell, she's already got the accent down cold.

[alcibiades_mystery]

28. Is her "campaign" somehow disconnected from McCain's? ROFL

This is truly becoming ridiculous.

[ProSense]

30. LOL! n/t

[ProSense]

29. How exactly does that work?

May? WTF?

Is hers a separate campaign from McCain's?

[FloridaGrl]

31. What's next, call off the elections?

I cannot believe people are buying this bull.

[Mabus]

32. Here's what I think is going on

She needs to meet with her witch doctor and then go kill a moose as a sacrifice.

:rofl:

[Schulzz]

33. Will she also stop taking questions? Oh, wait... nt

[ObamanationYes1]

37. LOL - exactly what I was thinking! n/t

[Gidney N Cloyd]

34. Suspend "her campaign"? It's the same fucking campaign!!! nt

[secondwind]

35. wow.........maybe McCain will "reinvent" himself one more time and come out shooting

--- with Mitt Romney by his side as the new VP pick@!!!!!!

And, they can always say, that Palin felt her family had to come first, motherhood, and all that.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

36. What the fuck are these yokels playing at?

What the hell does that nitwit have to do with the economy? Is there some problem with caribou futures of which we haven't been made aware?

[ladyVet]

39. !

Why do I feel this whole campaign is based on a Salvador Dali painting? This has been a totally surreal election. Every day brings a new level of :wtf:

[Jennicut]

41. Uh, Sarah has not been anywhere without McLiar lately

So suspending "her campaign" means nothing as she is stuck at Daddy McLiar's side all the time.

[Butch350]

42. Yeah their all going back to the club house to load their BB guns!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

44. Kick.

[Essene]

46. PREDICTION: rick davis will step down next week and everybody will say "ahh, that's it"