Sarah Palin's VP Selection Is A Trojan Horse, page 1
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Topic started on 2-9-2008 @ 12:17 PM by mister.old.school
Sara Palin's selection as John McCain's VP running mate is intended to end badly within the next two to three weeks as part of a devious Republican strategy. The McCain/Republcan strategy never intended for Palin to run the full course of the campaign and most likely not more than two weeks past the end of the Republican National Convention. As a result of attacks on her and the focus on her family, she will resign in shame and disgust, and the McCain campaign then intends to real the rewards of the resulting sympathy.


I have been in contact with a source that has previously provided reliable information on several issues. The strategy is outlined below, which is a combination of informed speculation and quietly-passed information:

(1) The McCain campaign has long ago quietly picked their VP running mate intended to be on the ticket in November.

(2) Palin has been selected as a "trojan horse" target for vocal political firebrands to have a veritable field day.

(3) The strategic response to criticism of Palin is a scripted minimalist retort intended to actually invite more criticism.

(4) Key McCain operatives, posing as intense liberals, will seed blogs and bulletin boards with horrific claims about Palin.

(5) Key McCain operatives, acting as "insider informants", will spill minor tidbits from "inside" the campaign organization to help fuel the negative Palin speculation.

(6) As the criticism reaches its peak, and a "family secret" is exposed by an intensely savage "liberal blogger", Palin will resign.

(7) After an appropriate period of McCain campaign faux indignation and a "second VP search", their original choice will be revealed.


Among those quietly discussing this rumored strategy, one name continues to emerge as the likely architect, Carl Rove. And, as is typical of the strategic maneuverings of Rove during campaigns, the intended outcome is multi-facted:

(1) The McCain campaign organization intends to reap significant reward from voters who are showing both sympathy and ager over what has transpired.

(2) The Republican party insiders expect this issue to become the tipping point that initiates strict media control over political bloggers.

(3) The McCaign campaign expects this issue to remove examination of familial matters from the news, as there are deep issues in Cindy McCain's professional life that could harm them.

(4) The backlash of the perception resulting from attacking a "hockey mom", "nice person", and a pregnant 17-year old daughter will forever damage the Democratic party as it is expected they lack the backbone to do anything but apologize.


reply posted on 2-9-2008 @ 01:05 PM by Benevolent Heretic
Thank you for this highly relevant information. I have been reading up on Ms. Palin and am not surprised what I am finding. This article is from 2006.

Alaska Daily News (requires Login)


The high-profile support from local Republicans was hardly surprising, however. Party officials say Palin was already being groomed for bigger and better things, even as she talked about sewers and road-paving projects. In Alaska's fastest-growing region, Palin was the fresh young face of the suddenly dominant Republicans.
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The national Republican Party was encouraging local party officials to groom a new generation of candidates, officials say.
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In the last two weeks of the general election campaign, she did her Republican duty, stumping the state and appearing on television for Frank Murkowski. She was still, as she herself put it later, "the golden child."



reply posted on 2-9-2008 @ 01:30 PM by Anonymous ATS
reply to post by ColoradoJens




it makes perfect sense. With Palin having ZERO experience, she would be left at the behest of neoconservative policy makers entrenched within the whitehouse and the beltway. She may be so far outside the beltway that she would be unassuming as to the politics that are played.

Trojan Horse? Yes. But you got the analogy wrong. She probably won't bow out, but she'll keep the rovain policy structure intact. That's the Trojan horse for you.


reply posted on 2-9-2008 @ 01:32 PM by Jemison
reply to post by SonicInfinity






Obama said strictly that family members are OFF-LIMITS. If it turns out that Sarah Palin resigns due to much negative media coverage, the Democrats won't be to blame.


What?!?!? OBAMA may have said that, but his supporters are NOT backing off!!! Take a look at all of the left wing blog sites - they are STILL saying that Trig is Bristol's son, not Sarah Palin's!!

And while I respect Obama coming out and saying family members are off limits, I'm still waiting for Biden to open his big mouth and stick his foot in it! Keeping mum on this situation is probably the hardest thing he's had to do in his entire life!

Jemison


reply posted on 2-9-2008 @ 01:38 PM by SonicInfinity
reply to post by Jemison



You think you put enough exclamation points and question marks in that first sentence, because I think it could have used another three or four. ¬_¬

Although I don't support Obama, what he said is what he said, and until him or Biden say otherwise, the Democrats are NOT to blame if any attacks go against Palin. However, if Obama ever goes back on his word, you better believe there will be an uproar.

Also people, if you like the thread, don't just be all "flagged lol", participate in the thread so that we can get more opinions.



reply posted on 2-9-2008 @ 01:44 PM by Anonymous ATS
reply to post by infinite


Could you specify who's post you were talking about? I couldn't find any post here which stated anything at all about her being a woman. In fact, I think most people see that as a strong point right now. Obama has the fresh '1st black in white house' going against 'the man (old white guy)' McCain. So now that Obama picked a 'the man' for VP, McCain selected a woman for '1st woman' in the WH. As far as the minority/gender issue, McCain just evened the game. He modernized his campaign


reply posted on 2-9-2008 @ 01:45 PM by The Vagabond
If Karl Rove or some other Republican strategist really has cooked this up, then it's a dangerous over-intellectualization. It depends on too many anticipated reactions and involves too many steps that could have unintended consequences.

McCain can never come out and say that Palin was a decoy, therefore he must maintain that he chose her, which reflects very poorly on his judgement.

Furthermore, the perception by liberal bloggers that they brought down a potential Republican VP will only encourage them to dig deeper, bring them after Cindy McCain and others.

That same perception will make it very difficult to control the bloggers while Democrats control congress. A success legitimizes them. A failure would make them seem irrelevant, which makes the issue of their 1st ammendement rights primarily academic and makes it easier to silence them without the public taking notice.

In that sense it would actuallly make more sense that Rove or someone else seeded exactly the rumor that you are reporting to encourage continued attacks on trooper gate and the pregnant daughter, both of which are born-to-lose fights for the Democrats that make them look just a bit chauvanistic. That's a much simpler explanation. It involves only one step and it's a classic tactic you can find in any military classic from Sun Tsu's Art of War to General Krulak's Warfighting: Show weakness at your point of strength, let the enemy commit suicide on your walls.
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