Fox News' Chief Political Correspondent, Carl Cameron, has released info that was previously off the record. The gossip from the campaign trail was supposed to be kept secret until the elections were over, as they don’t look good for Palin or McCain.
Update: The allegations against Sarah Palin turned out to be a hoax. For full coverage, check out this article.
Cameron
talked about the reports. He said as soon as Palin was hired as the running mate, the McCain campaign seemed to doubt her. They were worried she lacked a degree of knowledge necessary to be vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Reportedly, Palin didn’t know about the countries that were involved in NAFTA (Canada, USA and Mexico).
A McCain campaign staffer told Cameron on Wednesday that Palin didn’t know Africa was a continent, and that she thought it was a country. She didn’t understand whether South Africa was part of the continent or a country on its own.
Fox reporter Cameron said he was given this information by unnamed sources on the condition he did not report it during the campaign.
After the Katie Couric interview and reading the press clippings, Palin accused her staff for not preparing her properly for that interview. She made some of her staff cry and threw “tantrums” over the negative coverage.
There are even more stories about Palin at
the Huffington Post.
In his blog about Palin, Andrew Sullivan with
The Atlantic wrote:
...the McCain campaign picked her essentially out of a hat and with Bill Kristol's recommendation letter. They did no vetting...Then they find out the truth. Now all I want to say here, ahem, is that they realized all this about this person within a few days of picking her and yet they went ahead for two months bullshitting us ... But when you cop to the fact that the McCain peeps knew most of that too very early on after their world-historical screw-up, you've got to respect and be terrified by their cynicism. I mean: country first? And they only lost by a few points?
Many articles on DigitalJournal.com also showed that Palin was not best equipped to be the Vice President of the United States from early on. The McCain campaign knew it as well.
Can you imagine how it will look if McCain had won and these stories were leaked just now?
