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   From: Bodine@ReBarge.net   
      
   McCain Campaign Manager: Palin In 2012 Would Be Catastrophe for GOP   
   If Sarah Palin is her party's nominee for president in 2012 it will be a   
   "catastrophic election" for the GOP, Sen. John McCain's 2008 campaign   
   manager predicted on Friday.   
      
   Longtime GOP strategist Steve Schmidt -- who ran McCain's campaign and   
   played a role in picking Palin as the senator's running mate -- offered a   
   scathing assessment of the former Alaska governor's political trajectory.   
      
   "I think that she has talent," Schmidt said, "but my honest view is that she   
   would not be a winning candidate for the Republican Party in 2012."   
      
   "She is someone who has a passionate base that constitutes millions of   
   Americans," Schmidt said. "But in the year since the election has ended, she   
   has done nothing to expand her appeal beyond that base into the middle of   
   the electorate where elections are decided."   
      
   Speaking at The Atlantic's First Draft of History Conference, Schmidt was   
   asked, initially, to respond to Palin's forthcoming book, "Going Rogue", and   
   how he thought he would be portrayed in it.   
      
   "I think it may say that I was anti-rogue in the running of the campaign,"   
   he replied, hinting at the frictions between him and Palin that have been   
   extensively reported since the end of the 2008 campaign.   
      
   Schmidt did compliment Palin for engendering fascination among millions of   
   people throughout the country. "Just look at her pre-sales numbers," he said   
   of her book. And he even added that it was not "inconceivable that she could   
   be Republican nominee for president of the United States."   
      
   But, he qualified, it would be "fairly inconceivable" that she could end up   
   being president. "In fact, were she to be the nominee we could have a   
   catastrophic election."   
      
   Read more at:   
   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/02/mccain-campaign-manager   
   p_n_307523.html   
      
   She divides the Republican party better than any Democrat has managed. She   
   is not a conservative but an extremist, she's a walking, blurting disaster   
   who like Bush, wants revenge   
      
   Palin, like Cheney and Bush is a sociopath who wants revenge against   
   Americans. Letterman, hmmmmm?   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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