Palin Gone Rogue Screenplay

Maureen Dowd at the NYT gets creative with her column:

THE MAVERICK WEARS PRADA
Screenplay by
Maureen Dowd
Revised third draft
© Oct. 29, 2008

FADE IN:

INT. A HOTEL SUITE — in the middle of the day in the middle of Ohio.

NICOLLE WALLACE, a slender, preppie-looking blonde wearing a string of pearls is pacing and frantically thumbing her BlackBerry. She is a top McCain adviser under STEVE SCHMIDT who has been seconded to SARAH PALIN. On the TV, MSNBC’s DAVID SHUSTER is asking ANNE KORNBLUT about rumors that PALIN has gone AWOL after McCain advisers anonymously labeled her a rogue “diva” and a “whack job.”

NICOLLE

(hissing)

How’d she get away?
....
NICOLLE

Steve’s freaking out. You know how he is about message discipline, much less completely losing a candidate. He’s got enough on his plate scaring the nursing-home Jews in Florida and painting Obama as a Palestinian Marxist Madrassa Child. Maybe all of those dudes painting their chests for Sarah and screaming “2012!” have her looking past the old man. Steve says he will annihilate her if she sabotages this campaign to get started on the next one, or if she plants negative stories about me — I mean McCain — with the base. Are the clothes gone from the belly of the plane?
You should read it all.

McCain Doesn't Deserve to Win

McCain has run a dreadful campaign but perhaps the worst thing he's done is assault Obama's character so much, that his supporters bought all the lies coming out of the republican party. They've become a mob.

Now it seems every McCain supporter says Obama is a communist, which is totally absurd. We've seen masses of people get suckered before our very eyes. We've seen their mob mentality building. This shouldn't be underestimated.

Both candidates have been engaged in negative campaigning but there's a difference between Obama's negative ads and McCain's negative ads.

McCain's exploit people's fears to assault Obama's character. Obama's assaults McCain's policies. See the difference. One is saying the other is a secret Muslim who hangs with terrorists and is going to usher in communism. The other says the other guy is going to be bad for the economy.

McCain should be embarrassed of his campaign. But perhaps, like George Bush, he's in a bubble and doesn't know what's become of it. Maybe he hasn't seen the rage of his supporters.

Now it seems Palin's ego is so inflated that she's spinning off. She is not fit or worthy to be president. Heck, she's not even fit to be governor of Alaska:

Politico: Even as John McCain and Sarah Palin scramble to close the gap in the final days of the 2008 election, stirrings of a Palin insurgency are complicating the campaign's already-tense internal dynamics.

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. Read more about the divisions within the campaign.

I'd also like to add that McCain Palin supporters ought to be considering an Obama win and they ought to figure out how they'll behave if he does win and they ought to choose to let it go.