McCain Camp Didn't Search Palin's Hometown Paper Archives

McCain Camp Didn't Search Palin's Hometown Paper Archives
August 31, 2008 05:00 PM

The McCain campaign has gone to great lengths to present the selection of Sarah Palin as one made after a careful, meticulous vetting process. But evidence continues to suggest that the Arizona Republican made his VP choice with surprising haste.

On Saturday, a Democrat tasked with opposition research contacted the Huffington Post with this piece of information: as of this weekend, the McCain campaign had not gone through old newspaper articles from the Valley Frontiersman, Palin's hometown newspaper.

How does he know? The paper's (massive) archives are not online. And when he went to research past content, he was told he was the first to inquire.

"No one else had requested access before," said the source. "It's unbelievable. We were the only people to do that, which means the McCain camp didn't."

The Frontiersman did not immediately confirm the revelation. And there is no indication from the Democratic source that anything nefarious or problematic will be found in the archives. But officials with the paper did not recall inquiries by the McCain campaign.

"I cannot confirm that information at this time," said publisher Kari Sleight. "I am not aware of the McCain campaign researching our archives, but archive requests do not usually go through me."

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/08/31/mccain-camp-didnt-search_n_122823.html

Why go through those boring old archives?

I just read that the guy she fired in the "abuse of power investigation" was never contacted by anyone connected to mccain either....
I would think that would be important....but maybe that's just me.

they didn't have the time before "Obama went out into the stratesphere", after his masterpiece acceptance speech, and thought their base the corporatemedia would do a cover job?

He likes the look of her and her supposed spunk. He thinks he is immortal and if she can bring in enough wackos to put him in the Oval Office -- who cares?

I think I can see where this is going, too.

Republicans just dont get it

The point being we have names we can look into and where to start our search and we also know where to send it. Her decline is imminent.

speech when McINSAME freaked and knew he had to make a desperate move. Sarah Plain was chosen at the last moment and not vetted at all.

I would have liked to have seen that. McCain was probably sitting stunned before his TV set after seeing Obama's speech and campaign aides were waving their hands in front of him. After they revived him, he probably rose to his feet and had sets of ball bearings going in both hands as he kicked everyone around him and as campaign aides tried to get him to stand still so they could change his pants after he soiled them.

wow, I certainly do not want these lunatics in the white house.

:wow:

which of course is the opposite the Myers situation.

He clearly gave more concern to what he had for lunch than his VP pick

It's reckless is what it is.

It seems there are both audio and video recordings documenting Palin's unethical, if not illegal intimidation of the Alaskan State Police.

Here is one link, but several other diaries linking to depositions and court records.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/31/104617/671/991/580751

is being gathered on the Net..whether mccain's Team Vetted or not.

McCain will state that he was in prison camp when Eagleton wasn't vetted properly, in 1972. McCain was released in 1973.

Eagleton was announced by George McGovern as his running mate July 14, 1972, but it was soon found that "Between 1960 and 1966, Eagleton checked himself into the hospital three times for physical and nervous exhaustion, receiving electric shock treatments twice." Eagleton withdrew August 1.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Eagleton

I refuse to believe he doesn't want to win. This is his last chance at the WH and he has been working for this for a long time now.

Is it that he's so arrogant and out of touch that he thinks he deserves the WH and doesn't need to seriously campaign?

- This is the FIRST weekend I know of where he's campaigning.
- He throws silly tantrums at Obama (Celebrity! Unpatriotic!)
- He openly campaigns on issues that he voted against time and time again
- He chooses a running mate he hasn't vetted and who is not qualified for the job

The RNC convention is now in shambles, McCain stutters on tv today and looks so ridiculously unprepared...I honestly can not wrap my head around his actions.

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clone himself after in his latest bid for the white house.

People who are genealogy nuts have all sorts of fun resources. Found this on the first try.
Seems they didn't like her from the get-go. ;)



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She will fit right in with the jack-booted thugs. The librarian said "she couldn't speak without the Mayor's approval."



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I'm beginning to think that instead of doing ANYTHING resembling real research, McPander just tapped her three times with a Bug long neck and said "I vet thee, I vet thee, I vet thee!"

That's the same issue with his temper. This is not the mental profile of a guy you would want within 1000 miles of "the button"

and I haven't even had a drink yet tonight. Must be margarita time!

palin has been up to in her short career?

Except their version of "vetting" is talking to her pastor and praying about it.

They couldn't care less about anything else.