The GOP Used To Be Good At Message Discipline

Problem: Like large majorities of the American public, the press has expressed concern that McCain’s VP pick Sarah Palin is not ready for prime time.

Solution: Shield Sarah Palin from the press until they promise to only pitch softballs.

That’ll show them!

20 Responses to “The GOP Used To Be Good At Message Discipline”

  1. 1

    r€nato

    They won’t even put her on Faux News?

    Now that is mavericky decision-making you can believe in, my friends.

  2. 2

    OriGuy

    As for the speech itself, Davis said a generic, “masculine” speech was being prepared before the pick was made and, now that Palin is the choice, she is adapting the speech to her own needs and personality.

    What do you think Joe Biden would have said if someone from the Obama campaign had said, “Here’s your acceptance speech, Senator?”

  3. 3

    JGabriel

    My God, it just doesn’t end:

    Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms

    The streets will be strewn with the bodies of people suffering from irony overdose.

    .

  4. 4

    TR

    They cancelled an interview with Larry King? Sweet Jesus, the interviewers don’t get any softer than that.

  5. 5

    JGabriel

    OriGuy:

    What do you think Joe Biden would have said if someone from the Obama campaign had said, “Here’s your acceptance speech, Senator?”

    “It’s too short.”

    .

  6. 6

    DougJ

    Now they’re making the father come to the convention. I feel awful for these two poor kids. Seriously.

    The AP reports: “Bristol Palin’s boyfriend plans to join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention. Levi Johnston’s mother said her 18-year-old son left Alaska on Tuesday morning to join the Palin family in St. Paul, Minn.”

  7. 7

    r€nato

    The AP reports: “Bristol Palin’s boyfriend plans to join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the GOP convention. Levi Johnston’s mother said her 18-year-old son left Alaska on Tuesday morning to join the Palin family in St. Paul, Minn.”

    That’s funny, I could have sworn Republicans were demanding that the media leave them alone.

  8. 8

    GSD

    Is Dan Quayle going to appear at the convention to lecture the media about the evils of portraying a single career mother in a t.v. series and the horrible message that sends to the children?

    -GSD

  9. 9

    Krista

    Man—those two PJ media ads on the left showing the grinning mugs of John Hinderaker and Glenn Reynolds? Yeah baby…that’s hot.

  10. 10

    PeterJ

    Rick Davis, today:

    Rick Davis, campaign manager for John McCain’s presidential bid, insisted that the presidential race will be decided more over personalities than issues during an interview with Post editors this morning.

    “This election is not about issues,” said Davis. “This election is about a composite view of what people take away from these candidates.”

    Rick Davis, July 31:

    On July 31, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis sparred with MSNBC anchor Andrea Mitchell in an exchange about a McCain campaign ad portraying Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama as a celebrity.

    ``I’m happy to talk about more substantive issues the next time I come on your program,’’ Davis said, capping the testy interview.

  11. 11

    Incertus

    Palin Slashed Funding for Teen Moms

    The streets will be strewn with the bodies of people suffering from irony overdose.

    For Palin, that’s not ironic. That’s actually consistent—she’s all or government getting out of it and letting pregnant sluts suffer the full effects of their sluttitude, unless they have families with enough money and stroke to make their kids get married well before they’re mature enough to do so responsibly.

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    Incertus

    NO Quarter is now saying that Palin was vetted

    How do they manage to breathe without someone reminding them every second?

  14. 14

    PeterJ

    NO Quarter is now saying that Palin was vetted

    Larry Johnson know some people who knows some people that have been told by some people about some people that got a video tape with Palin being vetted by some people.
    Some people will put this tape on YouTube in October.

  15. 15

    Conservatively Liberal

    Some older woman speaking at the Repub convention was trying to rev the crowd up. She said that Sarah Pawlenty was just the woman for the job!

    That is hilarious in soooo many ways!

  16. 16

    Dreggas

    I don’t know if I can watch this. I don’t want to punch my new HD TV

  17. 17

    blogreeder

    Sarah not being shielded, She’s off doing her homework. She’s got a debate to get ready for.

  18. 18

    w vincentz

    Talking point…POW, talking point…reformer…talking point, talking point….
    How do these old folks keep it int their short term memories with all that onset alzheimers? Did someone up theri meds?

  19. 19

    croatoan

    And just recently McCain was whining about Obama getting all the media attention.

  20. 20

    Sleeper

    Noah Says:

    NO Quarter is now saying that Palin was vetted

    One of the comments there was a bizarre piece of Clintonite alternate universe fan fiction, starring covert undercover GOP op Carly Fiorina “infiltrating Democratic women’s groups,” with the double super secret knowledge of people very very close to Hillary herself

    heh. Good old Larry. Always there to make me laugh.