Re. Palin: what would McCain's camp have done if they would have won?

[jmowreader]

This morning's DU brings us quotes from the book "Game Change" that make it fairly clear McCain's people did not like Sarah Palin whatsoever, nor did they feel her ready to be president if McCain wasn't able to finish his term. Given the high probability McCain wouldn't finish his term, if McCain would have won the GOP would have had to execute some weird palace coup to keep Sarah out of the White House.

Whatcha think? Remember the Republicans have NO qualms about going after you for shit you did before you were elected president; they spent $70 million investigating Whitewater and that deal was finished long before Bill Clinton ever ran for president. (Also remember: Clinton's only real crime in their eyes was the D behind his name; as a Southern Democrat he holds a lot of the values Republicans claim to cherish, and his economic policies certainly didn't do the Republicans any harm. Sarah Palin, OTOH, had the potential to cause severe and lasting damage to the GOP and the nation as a whole.) Any of Palin's scandals are ripe for the picking.

I think they would have looked first at her house (starting out with the simplest question: why, exactly, are the exact same COMMERCIAL windows and doors in the Wasilla Sports Complex and the Palin home? No one uses commercial windows in a private residence because they're really expensive.), then Troopergate, firing her chief of police at the request of the tavern owners, and firing the Wasilla librarian for not wanting to ban any books from the Wasilla Library. I think the "list" of books Palin was supposedly trying to get rid of was thrown onto the Internet by a Palin supporter to try to make the rest of us look stupid because she was REALLY trying to get rid of Howard Bess' "Pastor, I Am Gay."

[tularetom]

1. Accident in a small plane somewhere in the wilds of Alaska?

That happens a lot to people who get in the repubs way.

[tekisui]

2. They knew for months that they weren't going to win.

The selection of sarah was to create a M$M frenzy and distract from Obama's acceptance speech at the DNC.

[niyad]

3. let's see--mcinsane out of the picture, they manage to get rid of palin--and are, apparently,

thinking they are going to retake the congress--isn't speaker of the house next in line? what if that sort of coup was what some of these thugs really had in mind?

[jmowreader]

5. President Pelosi is the Republicans' wet dream

Their Congressmen would rip her policies to shreds during the day, and their pundits would rip her personally to shreds at night.

If they let Sarah Palin stay president, within six weeks the pukes would be coming up to Sen. Reid and Speaker Pelosi saying "look, we've got nine, ten good Senate Republicans who will vote to convict if your side can find it in your heart to write up a set of articles of impeachment and drag that little ditz into the dock."

[surrealAmerican]

4. One or more of her scandals would have forced her to resign.

Then McCain would have appointed somebody else. He likely would not have been bullied into having that choice made for him, had he actually won.

Not nearly as damaging to the GOP as what's happening after a loss. Then again, the election was not close, and they never stood a good chance of winning.