Palin allies blame McCain's camp for "a tarnished public image" -- "she'd like to go more rogue"!

Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked
to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside
the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as
others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance,
for McCain's decline.

"She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her
campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to "go rogue" in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.

"I think she'd like to go more rogue," he said.

The emergence of a Palin faction comes as Republicans gird for a battle over the future of their party: Some see her as
a charismatic, hawkish conservative leader with the potential, still unrealized, to cross over to attract moderate voters.
Anger among Republicans who see Palin as a star and as a potential future leader has boiled over because, they say,
they see other senior McCain aides preparing to blame her in the event he is defeated.