The Sarah Soap Opera Continues
07 November 2008 1:46 pm by Taylor Marsh
BY TAYLOR MARSH
Pitting Republican against Republican. The Sara saga continues.
What emerges on a close reading is this: Palin and those closest to her inside the campaign were eager to wage a Lee Atwater-style campaign designed to demonize Barack Obama, with Palin as the figure leading the charge. McCain was resisting this push or at least attempting to keep it within tight boundaries. Kristol campaigned against the McCain strategy, boosting Palin.
[...]As I reported previously, Kristol was instrumental in convincing the McCain campaign to select Sarah Palin, and he stood tenaciously by his candidate. He used his position as a media figure—at the Weekly Standard, on Fox News, and in his valued column at the New York Times—to advance his vision of the campaign’s interests.
Let’s also remember that it was Bill Kristol championing Sarah Palin, from his perch on Fox News Sunday, from the start.
