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[Czarjorge]

The fact that Palin actually considers it a possibility that she COULD be the leader of the Republican Party proves her stupidity all the more. The woman clearly can't think on her feet, and no matter how good your speech writers are you can't get to a higher office than she already has without the ability to shuck and jive verbally. Also, her positive numbers in Alaska have tanked. If she can't get reelected in Alaska, something looking more and more unlikely, she'll be a political footnote.

[Ya-ta Boy]

Here's another rogue article:

Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image � even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline.

"She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to "go rogue" in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.

"I think she'd like to go more rogue," he said.

The emergence of a Palin faction comes as Republicans gird for a battle over the future of their party: Some see her as a charismatic, hawkish conservative leader with the potential, still unrealized, to cross over to attract moderate voters. Anger among Republicans who see Palin as a star and as a potential future leader has boiled over because, they say, they see other senior McCain aides preparing to blame her in the event he is defeated.

"These people are going to try and shred her after the campaign to divert blame from themselves," a McCain insider said, referring to McCain's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, and to Nicolle Wallace, a former Bush aide who has taken a lead role in Palin's campaign. Palin's partisans blame Wallace, in particular, for Palin's avoiding of the media for days and then giving a high-stakes interview to CBS News' Katie Couric, the sometimes painful content of which the campaign allowed to be parceled out over a week.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081025/pl_politico/14929

Circular firing squad indeed. Which group will be the first to make the call in 2012 and say, "Let's kiss and make up"? It can be done--McCain himself did it with the black baby operatives from 2000.

[canuckistan]

[Paji eh Wong]

And the knives come out.

This is going to be awesome!

[Czarjorge]

Here's a great article about the impending Republican blame game...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/james-carville-and-paul-begala/let-the-blame-game-begin_b_136223.html?page=12&show_comment_id=17044930#comment_17044930

[Tiger Beer]

Sheesh, it's like everything that could go wrong with McCain's campaign has wrong. At least Bush got his campaigning part right.

Well, still got 10 more days, so we'll see how it ends up. Looks bleak for the guy though.

I am curious how Alaskan voters are going to do with her when she is up for re-election. I think they have seen quite an eyeful of her already. I also can't see her making any decent successful run at the White House in 2012. If she had to campaign her way through the maze of Republicans, she'd have been torn down VERY QUICKLY.

[bacasper]

[JMO]

This kind of reminds me of when the Tories imploded in England. I think this sort of thing can actually be good for a party. Give them a term or two and they'll be back. After a while, people always want change.

[VanIslander]

So that means she's a true maverick?

[mises]

[ontheway]

Looks to me like her next target will be US Senator from Alaska. She may be setting herself up just fine to go for the Senate.

[canuckistan]

[bucheon bum]

[catman]

Wouldn't she be better off running for Senate or the House?

[JMO]