Meg Whitman’s Slap In The Face Of Sarah Palin Fans: Hiring Mike Murphy

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Meg Whitman’s Slap In The Face Of Sarah Palin Fans: Hiring Mike Murphy

Written By : John Hawkins

After John McCain went down in flames, his staffers went on the warpath. Not against him, for blowing it in the home stretch of the campaign. Not against the media, for abandoning the man who used to be their favorite Republican. Not even against Barack Obama.

No, John McCain’s staffers ran to the press and savaged Sarah Palin at every opportunity. Why? To shift the blame away from moderates, who abandoned a moderate candidate, and in an effort to toady to the Left by trashing the brightest spot in the entire McCain campaign.

Now, one the worst of McCain’s staffers was Mike Murphy, who ripped on Sarah Palin like it was his new job. Where was the loyalty to the campaign? Where was the respect for all the conservatives that thought choosing Sarah Palin was the best move McCain made in the entire campaign?

Here are just some of the things Mike Murphy said about Sarah Palin on the record.

Mike Murphy referred to the decision to pick Palin as”cynical” and “gimmicky.”

Gov. Sarah Palin is the political train wreck that keeps on giving. First, she was an awful choice last year as John McCain’s running mate. — Mike Murphy

Yeah. No, no, look, she has a constituency. She’ll never be the nominee, I totally agree with David. I agree with Steve Schmidt, it would be actually a disaster if she was the nominee. I do wish my friend Steve felt that a year ago when a lot of people were asking John McCain to put her on the ticket. — Mike Murphy

Now staffers are, by their very nature, interchangeable. Yes, you try to get the best people you can, but there are 50 people who can do any staffer job.

So when Meg Whitman, who’s running for governor, chose to hire Mike Murphy, what does it say?

It says that she holds Sarah Palin’s many fans in the Republican Party in absolute contempt. She thinks so little of them and feels their support is so unwanted for her campaign, that she’s going to hire a guy like Mike Murphy, who made more of a name for himself trashing Sarah Palin than he did working for the McCain campaign.

Well, here’s what I say: Any candidate who hires Mike Murphy, Steve Schmidt, or Nicolle Wallace — the McCain staffers who trashed Palin — that candidate is dead to me. I don’t care what his record is, I don’t care what he says, and I don’t care how important the race is — if he wants a kind word on RWN, then he can buy an ad. I’m so tired of these Republicans who have contempt for the “little” people who put them in office and nothing says “I don’t respect the base” like hiring staffers who have been all over the news trashing a popular conservative for no good reason. So, as far as I’m concerned, as long as Mike Murphy is on Whitman’s staff, I’ll support anybody but Whitman for governor.

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Jack Schite

John, Palin is now known to be a last ditch effort by a tone deaf candidate to rescue a dead campaign. She has none of the skills necessary to lead this country. Please stop kidding yourself and find a quality candidate. This country deserves better.

And your usual critique of Obama as all smoke and teleprompters is insane. He’s an accomplished intelligent person who gave up a law career to community organize and acquire leadership skills, with the brains to rise in politics on his own two feet. Palin can’t even handle an interview with Katie Couric, for christ’s sake.
StanInTexas

Posted by Jack Schite 2010-02-02 13:31:47

The fear is strong in this one!
canddmf

Whitman is pretty much defined as a Rino on most other issues. She’s running a radio campaign that sounds good to conservatives about reducing spending and “reforming” CA welfare, but after election, I fully expect her to be Schwarzen-Kennedy Redux.

She’s a Bay Area success story in business with no political background other than a spotty voting record. There are no good candidates in CA for governor right now.
arcman46

“And your usual critique of Obama as all smoke and teleprompters is insane. He’s an accomplished intelligent person who gave up a law career to community organize and acquire leadership skills, with the brains to rise in politics on his own two feet.”

I have a question for you Jack Schite: How in the He** did you come up with that brilliant conclusion? About the only true statement in the whole thing was that he gave up a law career to become a community organizer. We have not seen any his college transcripts; no papers written; there is absolutely no evidence that he has ever accomplished anything; and until McCain, he never had an opponent that he wasn’t able to force out of the race. Thinking on his feet, he sounds like a babbling moron. Kind of like you, I guess.
Jack Schite

Arcman46, you’re joking right? Obama’s work at Harvard is well documented. Or are you also wondering about his birth certificate?

Obama wiped the floor with republicans last Friday, and you claim he can’t think on his feet? Perhaps you didn’t hear about it, as it hasn’t been mentioned on this site from what I could see. He was brilliant. The republicans looked like fools.
whats_up

Perhaps you didn’t hear about it, as it hasn’t been mentioned on this site from what I could see. He was brilliant. The republicans looked like fools.
Posted by Jack Schite
2010-02-02 16:21:59

Of course they wont mention it, it is embarassing for them.
http://conservativebootcamp.com martinhale

“He was brilliant.”

Well, I suppose that in the eyes of a feverishly ardent ideologue such as yourself, that’s true. Nonetheless, when someone creates an objective measure of “brilliant”, I might be interested in your musings, but until then, I’ll continue to consider most everything you say to be nothing more than your personal opinion spewed loudly at anyone within ear/eyeshot.
Jack Schite

Martin, I actually take everything at face value, and no onewho know me would call me an ideall
D-Vega

So Mike Murphy shouldn’t be supported, and any candidate he supports should also sacrifice any support, only because they dared insult “The One”?

Ever think, since he’s actually worked with her, that he’s right?
Jack Schite

F-ing idevice

I’m hardly an ideologue by any stretch. Just a working stiff who supports social justice.
http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

Palin is now known to be a last ditch effort by a tone deaf candidate to rescue a dead campaign.

…which damn near worked, and would have if McCain hadn’t blown it by “ending his campaign” to go push for a big-government bailout program.

She has none of the skills necessary to lead this country.

The irony of an Obama supporter saying this is absolutely priceless.
http://guardian.blogdrive.com/ CavalierX

I’m hardly an ideologue by any stretch.

True. The very word “idealogue” conveys an impression of having an idea, something you clearly have never had.

Just a working stiff who supports social justice.

Oh, a Marxist. Well why don’t you just say so?
arcman46

“Arcman46, you’re joking right? Obama’s work at Harvard is well documented. Or are you also wondering about his birth certificate?”

Actually, Jack, I have absolute no reason to believe that Obama was not born in this country. But on his “Harvard” work being well documented, How come he is the only Editor of the Harvard Law Review that never submitted any articles? Where are his transcripts? Why doesn’t anyone really remember who he was? I think you need to do a little more research.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

He’s an accomplished intelligent person who gave up a law career

Yeah, those five cases he worked on as a lawyer, were f’n brilliant.
http://TheNixonTape.Blogspot.Com Dick_Nixon

Just a working stiff who supports social justice.

Posted by Jack Schite
2010-02-02 17:02:37

You have claimed repeatedly to have been a upper level IT guy. You wouldn’t know work if it’s balls slapped your chin.

And if Obama wiped the floor with the Republicans, why hasn’t he passed his socialized medicine or cap and tax yet?
whats_up

Actually, Jack, I have absolute no reason to believe that Obama was not born in this country. But on his “Harvard” work being well documented, How come he is the only Editor of the Harvard Law Review that never submitted any articles? Where are his transcripts? Why doesn’t anyone really remember who he was? I think you need to do a little more research.

Posted by arcman46
2010-02-02 19:29:49

I think you need to do a little more research. Their are plenty of people who actually worked with Obama at the HLR who remember him including Bradford Berenson who said of Obama:

These charges are not accurate. As a 2L [second year law] student, Barack wrote the same amount as all of his 2L peers, although by policy of the Harvard Law Review, no student writing is signed or attributed to individual authors. As a 3L, it is true that he did not write, but that is because he was the President of the Review. Because the President does so much editing, including of all the major faculty articles, he is not expected to author original pieces himself and almost never does so. I saw Barack hunched over manuscripts editing articles on many a late night at Gannett House. He simply could not have been elected President if he was not regarded by his fellow editors as being among the best legal writers and legal minds in his class.
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