Palin Promotions

Conservatives4Palin editor and US for Palin author Stacy Drake yesterday published her analysis of how the detestable Steve Schmidt has been palling around with Obama and members of his administration since 2010.

Schmidt and his sidekick Nicolle Wallace were entrusted with ensuring the success of the Vice Presidential portion of the McCain-Palin 2008 campaign. Instead, Schmidt made critical mistakes, then devised an elaborate scheme to foist blame upon former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who was McCain’s running mate. The HBO fictional movie, Game Change is entirely based on the accounts provided by Schmidt and Wallace in an effort to save their hides and political reputations.

Drake wrote:

In an article published [yesterday] in the New York Times (“Fashion & Style” section), he continued his quest to scapegoat his own poor decision-making in 2008 (like telling McCain to suspend his campaign during the financial crisis), and his need for relevancy within political circles, albeit now only with those who reside on the left.

The writer who Schmidt sat down with to continue his lucrative charade, is a man by the name of Adam Nagourney. Nagourney was on the list of approved “influential reporters” Schmidt’s associates wanted to use in the wake of the outcome in 2008 to help him save his reputation, as revealed by the “Schmidt memos,” published by Politico last March. So, it makes sense that Schmidt felt comfortable using this particular reporter for this purpose.

Drake continues:

In the article, Schmidt and his trusted reporter repeat the same garbage he sold to the writers of ‘Game Change,’ by claiming that it was Schmidt’s advice to bring Governor Palin onto the ticket that lead to McCain’s loss. His routine of acting like he feels guilty because selecting Governor Palin was a “calamitous political judgment,” is disingenuous and callous. He feigns humility, while using lies to shift the blame to the Governor for his own failure. He really is a disgusting individual.

The article also highlights how Schmidt’s little game is starting to pay him big dividends, and making him a friend to those on the left, including the Obama White House (emphasis):

Other advisers to Mr. McCain have scurried into obscurity. By contrast, Mr. Schmidt — television commentator and public relations executive, delivering speeches and wisdom on the politics of the day — has a higher profile than ever, and stands as evidence that there may be little cost to being associated with a losing campaign and a disastrous political misjudgment, as Mr. Schmidt now describes the Palin selection.

Mr. Schmidt, who walked the red carpet at the Washington and New York openings of HBO’s “Game Change,” has become a minor celebrity in nonpolitical circles: Mr. Harrelson, in an interview last week, described him as a “buddy” and recounted how he persuaded Mr. Schmidt to be his date to the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April, and to the exclusive pre- and after-parties, no matter that the night happened to fall on Mr. Schmidt’s wedding anniversary.

“We went everywhere together,” Mr. Harrelson said. “We would be at a party, and people would say to me, ‘You know the guy you played is over there.’ And I was like ‘Yeah, I know. I came with him.’ At this point, I feel quite fond of him.”

Mr. Schmidt is the vice chairman for public affairs of one of the world’s biggest public relations firms, Edelman. He is a regular commentator on MSNBC, which has installed a remote camera in his sprawling rustic home. He is quoted on TV and in newspapers, including The New York Times.

Mr. Schmidt even had lunch in the White House mess with David Plouffe, President Obama’s senior adviser who raves about his politics skills, and had his photograph taken with the president.

Drake requested the C4P readership to send the aforementioned photograph if it is located. She concluded:

This article may let Schmidt ramble on about his phony “regret,” but they also show how well Schmidt has made out by orchestrating this false reality to sell to liberals. They are eating up his lies, and he’s obviously eating well in exchange for his services.

All quoted material originally published by Stacy Drake at: http://conservatives4palin.com/2012/06/no-surprise-steve-schmidt-now-buddies-with-the-obama-administration.html

LaDonna Hale Curzon, Executive Producer, Sarah Palin Radio this week interviewed Breitbart’s Tony Lee to discuss the GOP establishment’s (GOPe) continuous and unprovoked attacks on former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin. Lee had been interviewed about the same subject by Stephen K. Bannon on his Victory Sessions show earlier this week, and his Breitbart article was one of five Conservatives4Palin published in one day about the attacks.

Curzon said that Gov. Palin was properly vetted, both by a firm operated by a John McCain confidante and by McCain himself. Further, McCain praised Gov. Palin as being a solid and worthy VP candidate.

The McCain Campaign’s Catastrophic Mistake

Tony Lee said “the McCain campaign made a catastrophic mistake by campaign operatives who were in over their heads. The financial crisis happened. They decided to go all in, suspend the campaign, come back to Washington. McCain didn’t even read a three-page paper for TARP (Troubled Asset Relief Program), and they made him look like a fool. He looked like a fool, and at that point, the election was basically over.”

Schmidt and Wallace: Scum of the Earth

Lee continued, “at that point, you see these professional operatives who are just horrible, horrible scum of the earth who basically need politics for their livelihood thinking ‘Oh my gosh, we basically screwed up the election! What can we do to preserve our livelihoods and reputations?’ What they decided to do is immediately after that you see all these leaks and pieces of gossip coming out about Gov. Palin. The day the election was over, they wanted to blame someone. That was Gov. Palin.”

“A big mistake that they made: these people don’t understand conservatives. They didn’t realize how powerful she resonated with conservatives. They thought she would just fade away and no one would hear from her.”

He said Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace were at the root of the smear campaign, which reporters accepted without doing any fact-checking. As a result, “complete fabrications became part of the conventional wisdom,” he said.

Useful Republican Idiots

Lee discussed the infamous memo that was drafted to absolve Schmidt and Wallace of any blame for the McCain campaign’s failure. “The mainstream media was willing to go along with it, because they detested Gov. Palin from the very beginning,” he said. The Republicans involved “were used as basically useful Republican Idiots.”

Curzon said “if it hadn’t been for Gov. Palin on the ticket, McCain would have lost in a landslide, and everybody remembers those massive crowds she attracted and McCain didn’t draw those kind of crowds like that. The whole notion that she cost McCain the election is just totally absurd.”

The Lies Will Continue and We’ll Continue Fighting Them

Lee said, “the lies will continue because the consultants (Schmidt and Wallace) and the mainstream media are part of the permanent political class that Gov. Palin hates.” He said in the days prior to new media and social media, they could have gotten away with it more easily, but they’re going to continue to try.”

“When Gov. Palin came in, the McCain campaign was on life support. She gave it life again, pushing him up to the lead,” Lee said. He noted that McCain’s headquarters were in Virginia, and he couldn’t draw the crowds until he put Gov. Palin on the ticket. Once she came on the scene, crowds of 20,000 and 30,000 were routine.

Washington Nationals to Win Stanley Cup

On a lighter note, Lee predicted the Washington Capitals would defeat the New York Rangers and go on to win the Stanley Cup.

Audio Transcript of Tony Lee Interview

Audio Transcript of Stephen Bannon’s Interview with C4P’s and U4P’s Stacy Drake on GOPe Palin-Bashing

Audio Transcript of Stephen Bannon’s Interview with Breitbart’s Tony Lee on GOPe Palin-Bashing

All the Palin news in the mainstream (or what we call “lamestream”) media for the last month or so has been a regurgitation of dead and buried memes about the wisdom of picking former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as John McCain’s running mate, or about her record. It almost feels like 2009 all over again.

In days gone by, it was Obama’s supporters and various people within his administration who started and perpetuated these falsehoods, perfectly following the instructions in Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals. Since Gov. Palin and Obama are in opposing parties with opposing visions; since Obama was a well-known Chicago machine politician, this behavior – as abominable as much of it was – from his administration and supporters struck me as little more than par for the course. Though I was a relative newbie to the game, I was not naive to the simple fact that opposing parties attack one another.

Talented writers on sites like Conservatives4Palin, Team Sarah, and US for Palin, to name a few defended Gov. Palin’s record and promoted her accomplishments. As the months and years passed (it sure doesn’t feel like it, but we’ve been at this now for close to four years), the amount of time we had to devote to defending Gov. Palin’s record diminished. We were able to move more to a model of focusing on news, accomplishments, and Gov. Palin’s future actions.

Déjà vu

Today, Conservatives4Palin has five articles posted defending Gov. Palin’s record and accomplishments – not from attacks by Obama and his supporters – but from our own Republican Party.

McCain on Palin: She Was ‘Well Qualfied’ by Steve Flesher is self-explanatory, just by the headline. Flesher delineated the reasons why McCain picked Gov. Palin in the first instance: loyalty, proven reformer, executive experience, and expert knowledge of energy and energy regulation.

Mary Beth House posted an excerpt and analysis of Whitney Pitcher’s Was Steve Schmidt Qualified to Be McCain’s Campaign Manager? which was originally published at Breitbart. Given that he managed four botched campaigns prior to cursing the McCain-Palin campaign with his odious presence, one could surmise that Schmidt and the equally detestable, but unmentioned Nicolle Wallace were absolutely unqualified to operate a campaign. Schmidt and Wallace of course are the two people in whom Gov. Palin was supposed to place her trust, and who blamed her for the McCain campaign’s loss to Obama. “Even in deflecting blame [Schmidt is] a failure… only succeeding in putting the spotlight on his own incompetence,” House concluded.

Next down the stack, House posted an excerpt of another Pitcher article, Who Is the Real Sarah Palin?, which was also published originally at Breitbart. Pitcher gives a very brief, but effective synopsis of Gov. Palin’s accomplishments: cutting spending, reforming Alaska’s tax system and ethics code, running a surplus, enacting policies that led to two credit upgrades, among others. Gov. Palin’s accomplishments are not exactly classified information. Of course the GOPe knows about them. That’s what they’re afraid of!

House posted an excerpt of Tony Lee’s Media and Political Permanent Class Attempt to Rewrite 2008 Election, which was originally published by Breitbart. Lee’s article discusses the infamous memo to shield Schmidt from blame for the McCain campaign’s loss.

Finally, House posted an excerpt of Stacy Drake’s Past Is Prologue: Reformers Need Not Apply, which was originally published at Breitbart. The headline gives a clue as to the GOP establishment’s (GOPe) hatred of Gov. Palin and why they seek to destroy her. They don’t want a true reformer on the ticket, because that would put an end to their corrupt backroom dealings. Drake explained how Gov. Palin took down GOP corruptocrat Randy Reudrich and how this history motivates the GOPe to want Romney nominated and ensure he has a running mate who will just do what he is told. Hence, all the articles we’ve seen the last month about being sure the presumptive nominee’s VP is not “Palin-like.”

Why Go After Someone Who Holds no Office and is not Running for One?

Let’s consider some key facts. Gov. Palin announced on October 5, 2011 that she was not going to seek the GOP nomination, citing as her two reasons: being shackled and beholden to handlers by virtue of seeking the office and impact on her family. She re-affirmed that announcement numerous times. In her March 12 Facebook Note Let’s Talk About the Real Issues, Mr. President, responding to an Obama attack ad on her Gov. Palin noted that she neither holds office, nor is running for one. Indeed, her name is not on any state’s ballot and there is no Palin 2012 campaign listed with the FEC. In her own words, Gov. Palin does not have any formal organization or infrastructure that would make her a viable candidate. Sorry, the grassroots does not count here. She’s talking about paid professional politicos who have decades of experience in the business and professionals staffing actual campaign offices nationwide.

The same question Gov. Palin raised in that Facebook Note about Obama’s attack is even more applicable here. Why would the GOPe expend the time, resources, and money to attack someone who neither holds office nor is running for one? Why does the GOPe perceive an existential threat from this “irrelevant” private citizen? Is Romney not the de facto nominee? After all, according to Green Papers, he has 727 hard delegates, Paul has 54, and the remaining candidates have suspended their campaigns with 350 hard delegates between them. Romney’s soft numbers are 869 – just 31 shy of 900. Why the mortal fear of this “dumb woman” – as the GOPe calls her – when the GOPe candidate has such a commanding lead?

Gov. Palin has spoken about favorably about an open convention, because it would allow more vetting and competition. She said she would answer the Summons there – if summoned, however, she also has no illusions about the GOPe ever approaching her.

Should the GOPe not be training its cross hair on the Paul campaign? After all, he is a declared candidate and he has wrested control of delegates from eight states with possibly more coming. Though his officially reported hard and soft numbers are 54 and 92 respectively, Paul may have 192 or even more delegates. Also, per Rule 38, delegates bound by their states may abstain from voting and no alternate can be selected during the ballot round. Yet, you don’t hear attacks coming from the GOPe on Ron Paul. You hear chirping crickets, while the attack machine goes full bore on Gov. Palin. Why?

Though Romney is the front-runner, he is a weak front-runner. While I expounded on how more than 94% of New York State’s Republican voters did not vote in the 2012 primary, New York is not the only state which suffered a low turnout.

Every human action has a motive. So, what is the motive behind all the GOPe attacks on Gov. Palin? They fear that she will do to them what she did to Reudrich and others of his ilk. They fear that she will do what she has done in every position she’s held: purge and cleanse. As Stephen Bannon said so many times when introducing The Undefeated, Gov. Palin is an existential threat to these people whether she is in the White House or her house in Wasilla.

They fear this, this, and this.

The truth is beginning to come out that Romney is not quite as inevitable as he is cracked up to be. The Tampa convention might not be a coronation after all.

The GOPe is afraid….

Very afraid….

Especially of the many things Gov. Palin could do not just now in 2012, but beyond.