Thread: Sarah Was the Star, McCain the Dud

Tuesday, November 11, 2008
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Sarah was the star and McCain the dud
Exclusive: Kimberly Fletcher offers inside look at volunteer worker bees for Palin
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Posted: November 11, 2008
1:00 am Eastern


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For several days, I have been listening to the media talk almost incessantly about the negative impact Sarah Palin supposedly had on the McCain campaign with allegations and rumors of infighting with key staffers who have, in a concentrated effort to discredit Palin, suggested that she is the reason Republicans lost the election. Not even 12 hours after the results were in Fox News correspondent Carl Cameron began reporting these allegations that he admits all came from unnamed sources in the McCain campaign. Enough is enough. It is time to set the record straight.
There are a lot of people who will not like what I have to say and I am sure will no doubt accuse me of "going against the party," but like Sarah Palin, I owe my allegiance to truth and the American people first and foremost – and if that means banging heads with people in the McCain campaign and/or the Republican Party, so be it.
For two weeks, I devoted my time as a full-time volunteer with the McCain campaign in the battleground state of Ohio working at the Huber Heights Victory Center just north of Dayton. The two weeks I spent at the Victory Center were two of the last three weeks I would spend with my husband before his deployment today for a one-year tour of duty in Iraq. Many people have asked me why I would make such a sacrifice. Let me make it clear right now: I didn't do it for John McCain. I did it because I believe Sarah Palin. Until Sarah Palin joined the ticket, I had no intentions of voting for Sen. McCain, let alone work with his campaign. But Sarah Palin changed all that, and I am not the only one who feels this way.
Our Victory Center was run by women who believed in Sarah Palin and what she had to offer the American people. Families filled our phone banks and volunteers gave hours and hours of their time to make phone calls, walk precincts and knock on doors. It was humbling to see the expectant mothers come in day after day with their young children to walk precincts and the nursing mothers who would come to make phone calls – breaking every two hours to feed their babies. The caliber of volunteers we had at our center was unsurpassed, their passion deeply rooted. It was clear this was about the future of our children and we were there for Sarah.
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For those in the McCain campaign, Republican Party and the media who believe Sarah Palin cost McCain this election, I would like to make it clear that the exact opposite is true. McCain cost the campaign the election despite all of Sarah Palin's efforts. I watched the polls. When Gov. Palin was the focus in the media, the numbers went up. When Sen. McCain was the focus, the numbers went down. I saw it in our volunteers, the people who came into Victory Center and the numerous calls and e-mails I personally received from people all over the country. They would tell me they weren't supporting John McCain; they were supporting Sarah Palin, and he just happened to be on the ticket.
I saw it in the phone banks. We had to change our script from "Are you voting for John McCain?" to "Are you voting McCain-Palin?" – because the voters would answer "no" when we asked if they were voting for John McCain and then when asked who they were voting for, they would say, "Sarah Palin."
We couldn't keep Palin gear in stock. T-shirts, buttons, bumper stickers – anything Palin flew out our doors. McCain-Palin signs were a hot commodity, but even more so were the "I Like Her" signs designed and produced by a local Dayton Ohio resident. We never seemed to have enough tickets for Palin rallies, but we couldn't give them away for McCain events.
The Ohio GOP was beside itself the week before the election when John McCain came to Dayton and two days after the announcement we had only distributed 1,000 tickets in a 4,500-seat venue. Granted, the media sabotaged the event by reporting the wrong time and information, but that wasn't the only issue. People would come in to the Victory Center and ask if Sarah Palin was going to be at the event. When we told them it would just be Sen. McCain, they'd say, "Never mind then," and leave.
The campaign considered canceling the event if the numbers didn't improve. Two robocalls from the local party and dozens of phone calls by volunteers to Veterans organizations, churches and homeschool groups finally pulled our numbers to 3,500. I was in charge of all the volunteer coordination for the event and made sure the attendees were seated in a way that the room looked full, but the media still didn't want to focus on anything but the empty seats. There were never any empty seats at a Palin rally.
To add to our frustrations, the campaign headquarters was chaos. As soon as Sarah Palin was announced, I began receiving phone calls from my grass-roots colleagues all across the country. The announcement excited us all, and we decided to volunteer our talents and resources to the campaign. Several of us called the campaign numerous times. At first we were told, "We already have all our vendors." They actually thought we were in this for money. After explaining that we weren't looking for a job and that we just wanted to help, there seemed to be some excitement. But for two weeks we were passed from one person to another until they sent us to the Women for McCain coordinator. After several unreturned phone calls, we finally gave up and the McCain campaign lost a lot of very talented, organized and influential individuals who could have made a huge positive impact on a limp campaign that, if not for Sarah Palin, would have been completely lifeless.
The one thing John McCain did do right in this campaign was to choose Sarah Palin as his running mate. She not only energized the base, she talked about John McCain in a way that made you forget all the things you don't like about him, and by the end of a rally you would love him and actually want to vote for him – because she was that good. Sarah Palin was the real star of this campaign, and John McCain was her biggest handicap.
After polls have put Sarah at 98 percent approval rating among Republicans, many have suggested that Sarah Palin is the future of the Republican Party. Sarah Palin is much bigger than that. She is the future of America, and if the Republicans want to get in on it, great. If, however, they continue to shove candidates like John McCain down our throats, they will continue to lose.
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Each one on BOTH sides voted FOR the kind of crap thats destroying this nation...

NAFTA, AMNESTY, BAILOUT...

You can tell who the enemies are in both parties by who voted for these things...