McCain Shows Palin No Twitter Love

[BridgeTheGap]

Last fall, John McCain hailed Sarah Palin as "experienced" and "talented." He declared, "she knows how to lead," and he predicted that "she's really going to have a remarkable impact on the American people." Nowadays, McCain doesn't follow her on Twitter.

Palin, as of Friday morning, had 34,558 followers of her feed on Twitter. The Arizona senator is not among them.

Almost all of Palin's tweets concern Alaskan matters. "Loved all the hard hats," Gov. Palin tweeted on Wednesday after attending the kickoff of a prison construction project in Alaska. She has not posted one Twitter message on the Iranian elections. But she did urge Alaskans "to celebrate American Flag Day."

McCain, who has 800,000 followers on Twitter, follows only 48 people. Over a third are journalists, including Jake Tapper of ABC News, David Gregory of Meet the Press, Sean Hannity, and Ana Marie Cox. (An old joke in Washington is that McCain's base is the DC press corps.) McCain keeps track of his wife, his (shall-we-say) feisty daughter Meghan, and son John McCain IV, as well as several of his aides.

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2009/06/mccain-shows-palin-no-twitter-love

[get the red out]

1. Could the former "beauty queen" not be so popular?

The basketball coach at the university in my city has over 200,000 followers on Twitter.

It sounds like the great northern hope of the right may be a fading flower (good riddance). 34,558 is Wasilla.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

3. Either she is not as popular as the media would have you believe

or her supporters don't know how to use computers.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Palin should demand an apology from McCain for his indifference.

On the David Letterman show of course . . . .