McCain campaign takes over reshaping Palin's image.

[Blue_In_AK]

This absolutely infuriates me.

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/story/528928.html

GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin is effectively turning over questions about her record as Alaska's governor to John McCain's political campaign, part of an ambitious Republican strategy to limit embarrassing disclosures and carefully shape her image for voters in the rest of the country.

Republican efforts include dispatching a former top U.S. terrorism prosecutor from New York, Ed O'Callaghan, to assist Palin's personal lawyer working to derail or delay a pending ethics investigation in Alaska. The investigation, known as Troopergate, is examining whether the governor abused her power by trying to remove her former brother-in-law as a state trooper.


O'Callaghan is just part of a cadre of high-powered operatives patrolling Alaska as reporters and Democrats scrutinize every detail of Palin's tenure in government, plus her family and friends. One strategy: Carefully coordinate any information that's released. The McCain campaign is demanding that it becomes the de facto source for answers about the operations of Alaska's government during the past 20 months.


Palin's normal press secretary, for example, now turns away inquiries from any reporter who isn't permanently based in Alaska, referring questions to the presidential campaign. Trouble is, some of McCain operatives only recently have arrived in Alaska and struggle to explain Palin's positions on arcane state issues.

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McCain's campaign has sent at least a dozen researchers and lawyers to Alaska to pore over Palin's background, ready to respond to questions about her tenure as governor and mayor of Wasilla, a small town outside Anchorage. Griffin has been leading the team in Alaska, which includes operatives of the Republican National Committee.

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I WANT THESE ASSHOLES OUT OF MY STATE!!

[Cha]

1. mccain campaign brought a truckload of lipstick

up to Alaska to no avail.

[billyoc]

2. From "Ma Barker" to "Hockey Mom", next week on Extreme Makeover!

:rofl:

[Blaze Diem]

3. They're finally vetting Palin??

Well The National Enquirer has already been doing their own vetting..

What a circus.

[BOSSHOG]

4. Hmmm john shouldn't you have done this months ago??

I, like you, was a leader and a manager in the Navy, sounds like you forgot a few (a lot) things.

[theothersnippywshrub]

5. So what's the difference between a hockey mom and a lapdog? "Verbiage?"

[CatsDogsBabies]

6. When I saw the subject line,

I thought they were finally going to get her into a more professional hair-do (instead of the "I am highschool student who just got out of bed and threw my hair up look"), or has this already been attempted?