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Title: Former Bush Official Nicolle Wallace: Sarah Palin 'Very Prickly, Very Cynical'
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Huffington Post
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/ ... lace-sarah-palin_n_790319.html
Published: Dec 1, 2010
Author: Huffington Post
Post Date: 2010-12-01 17:24:26 by Brian S
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Views: 18739
Comments: 26
Former Bush communications adviser Nicolle Wallace took to MSNBC's "Morning Joe" Wednesday, the home of recently announced Sarah Palin pessimist Joe Scarborough, and argued that the worry about the former Alaska governor's 2012 ambitions were unfounded. The GOP's supposed "President Palin" dilemma would work itself out, she said. Still, Wallace said that Palin displays "incredible cynicism" and is "very prickly."
"I believe that if she were on the cusp of becoming the nominee for the Republican party a whole lot of people... would talk about some of her more troubling deficiencies," Wallace said. "Her incredible cynicism, her bitterness, her aggressive attempts to claw anyone that points out an area for her to work on, I think these things will continue to reveal herself and the people that love her will continue to love her, but the people who are not so sure about her will, I think, formulate harder opinions and more clarity about her."
But when it comes to Republicans taking the initiative and aggressively mounting a campaign to eliminate Palin from the pre-2012 presidential proceedings, as Scarborough urged Tuesday, Wallace argued that this was unnecessary, and perhaps even impossible.
"No one's gonna cut her off at the legs," Wallace claimed. "Only Sarah Palin can beat Sarah Palin, and let me tell you why no one will take her on. Her defenders and supporters, the likes of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity -- people I admire -- are so powerful on the Right that nobody wants to anger any of those people, nobody wants to end up in the crosshairs, and nobody wants to look like they are unwilling to let her do her thing."
Wallace continued: "Just let her do her thing, she is going to be exposed enough to the American public that she will reveal what her nature is. I think her nature has been revealed lately as very prickly, very cynical."
Some, such as Meghan McCain, have argued conversely that Palin's extreme media exposure is a positive thing for her seemingly impending campaign. McCain wrote in a recent post for the Daily Beast that Palin may even be capable of "saturat[ing] the American public until we forget that anything or anyone else exists or is even an option in 2012."
According to Wallace -- who worked on the McCain campaign in 2008 and stood directly at odds with Sarah Palin multiple times -- there's little real risk that anybody in the GOP would actually let this prospect come to light. Subscribe to *Sarah Palin 2012*
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Still, Wallace said that Palin displays "incredible cynicism" and is "very prickly."According to Wallace -- who worked on the McCain campaign in 2008 and stood directly at odds with Sarah Palin multiple times
Ooooo, that's gonna hurt!
Wallace, you're a liberal and Palin isn't. WTF did you expect, someone you could lead around on a leash? I'd have to believe you are a real dumbass.
#2. To: Brian S (#0)
Palin thinks she's smart and isn't which makes her even dumber.
Long live the Taliban Freedom Fighters!
#3. To: Brian S (#0)
Sarah Palin 'Very Prickly, Very Cynical
i.e. she's a bitch.
No kidding.
#4. To: continental op, Brian S, skidmark (#2)
Palin thinks she's smart
Compared to you liberal pussies, she is Mensa material.
#5. To: Ibluafartsky (#4)
hey retard, I really think Palin would make a great president. and you can be her chief eunuch.
Long live the Taliban Freedom Fighters!
#6. To: Ibluafartsky (#1)
WTF did you expect, someone you could lead around on a leash?
With praise and treats, she'd be pretty easy to leash train.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
#7. To: lucysmom (#6)
With praise and treats, she'd be pretty easy to leash train.
Is that how you became a liberal idiot?
#8. To: continental op (#5)
I really think
You have yet to display anything here approaching that claim!
#9. To: Ibluafartsky (#8)
lol. you're not all there, are you, eunuch?
Long live the Taliban Freedom Fighters!
#10. To: continental op (#9)
eunuch?
Are you admitting you are, liberal pussy?
#11. To: continental op (#5)
hey retard, I really think Palin would make a great president. and you can be her chief eunuch.
Best of all, he's already got his inaugural gown.
#12. To: Skip Intro (#11)
I see why you were able to hide thing in your rolls of fat, skidmark. You are one ugly bitch!
#13. To: Ibluafartsky (#1)
I'd say we just learned where some of the more juvenile snipping from the McCain campaign was coming from all along.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#14. To: Badeye (#13)
I'd say we just learned where some of the more juvenile snipping from the McCain campaign was coming from all along.
Envy is so destructive. Wallace gains nothing while looking like a fool and a loser.
#15. To: Badeye (#13)
I'd say we just learned where some of the more juvenile snipping from the McCain campaign was coming from all along.
The Politico reported Saturday on Palin's frustration, specifically with McCain advisers Nicolle Wallace and Steve Schmidt.
They helped decide to limit Palin's initial press contact to high-profile interviews with Charlie Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, which all McCain sources admit were highly damaging.
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html
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Barrack Hussein Obama
President of the United States of America said that some Americans ; "They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
#16. To: lucysmom (#6)
With praise and treats, she'd be pretty easy to leash train.
Obviously the voice of experience.
Sit Goofy, Sit!
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#17. To: Ibluafartsky (#14)
Envy is so destructive. Wallace gains nothing while looking like a fool and a loser.
Exactly. Does she think anyone will hire her for a campaign in 2012 after this?
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#18. To: Badeye (#16)
Obviously the voice of experience.Sit Goofy, Sit!
Yes, my dog is 16 years old and I only have to tell her to sit once.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
#19. To: lucysmom (#18)
Yes, my dog is 16 years old and I only have to tell her to sit once.
I really have no interest in your sex life, goofy.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#20. To: Badeye (#19)
I really have no interest in your sex life, goofy.
and I have no interest in sharing it with you little boy.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
#21. To: lucysmom (#20)
You have sex with dogs and little boys?
Sheesh, goofy. Cruelty to animals and children?
Wow.
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
#22. To: Badeye (#21)
You have sex with dogs and little boys?Sheesh, goofy. Cruelty to animals and children?
Wow.
I think I hear your mother calling you.
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. Thomas Jefferson
#23. To: WhiteSands (#15)
They helped decide to limit Palin's initial press contact to high-profile interviews with Charlie Gibson of ABC and Katie Couric of CBS, which all McCain sources admit were highly damaging.
As they were.
They should have limited her to visits to groups of first graders. She might have been able to handle that.
Fortunately for her, she's figured that out and now limits her exposure to the same thing, Fox News.
#24. To: lucysmom (#22)
If you keep quoting this asshole I'm going to have to bozo you just to block his moronic comments out.
#25. To: Skip Intro (#24)
I actually think Todd Palin would make a great president.
Long live the Taliban Freedom Fighters!
#26. To: lucysmom (#22)
I think I hear your mother calling you.
Oh, and your a 'ghost whisperer' too, huh?
(laughing)
Obama's first all-by-his-lonesome budget, btw, calls for a $1.17 trillion deficit.
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