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Title: Palin Backers Suspect Huckabee Loyalists on Joe Miller Staff Behind E-Mail Leak
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Robert Stacy McCain
URL Source: http://theothermccain.com/2010/10/0 ... ller-staff-behind-e-mail-leak/
Published: Oct 5, 2010
Author: Robert Stacy McCain
Post Date: 2010-10-05 22:19:27 by go65
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This is the worst sort of betrayal I57;ve ever seen,61; one source close to Sarah Palin said in describing the leak of an e-mail that Todd Palin sent to Joe Miller, the Alaska GOP Senate candidate. The source noted that some of Miller57;s campaign staff have connections to 2008 Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and suggested that these staffers have been advising Miller to distance himself from Palin. Based on information in a post by notorious Alaska anti-Palin blogger Jeanne Devon, one pro-Palin source in Alaska deduced that the leak could only have come from Miller57;s staff 52; unless Miller himself leaked the e-mail. UPDATE: Cubachi, Sissy Willis and other Palin supporters on Twitter had initially asked me to confirm that the e-mail is genuine 52; and obviously it is. What was truly shocking, however, was to discover that some employee of the Miller campaign apparently thought it was a clever political strategy to leak this private communication to a liberal Democrat like Devon. Even if a Miller campaign staffer wished to embarrass Todd and Sarah Palin, why give an exclusive like this to a blogger who has made her career attacking Republicans? But Miller57;s staff has been 60;f51;ing up everything61; in recent weeks, said my source, pointing to a number of tactical and strategic blunders by the Republican campaign for which the Huckabee-connected staffers are believed to be responsible. UPDATE II: In my haste to get this post online, I may have pulled the trigger too quickly 52; a hazard of the light-speed news cycle in the Internet age. A few words have been changed, so that no one draws the wrong conclusion. There are a couple of stories behind this story, and my sources (I have more than one) are telling me to cool my jets until this unfortunate situation can be officially clarified. But the problem of divided loyalties within the Miller campaign staff 52; that some Huckabee supporters are 60;f51;ing everything up61; 52; is dead-on accurate. For several months, I57;ve been concerned that the mid-term campaign might suffer because some Republicans are looking ahead to 2012. Miller57;s supporters in Alaska are learning the hard way why I say you can57;t spell Huckabee without an 60;F.61; UPDATE III: Give credit to Dave Weigel (who is certainly no Palin fan) for pointing out the obvious: It57;s not news that Todd Palin is 52; what57;s a nice word? 52; zealous in his defense of his wife. Indeed, and as I suggested in my American Spectator article last month, the Palins have been burned so often by 60;disgruntled61; sources and scoop-crazed journalists that I feel kind of guilty even having to do reporting about them. UPDATE IV: Talk about earth-shattering news! I get linked by Allapundit about as often as Aaron Sorkin says nice things about Republicans. So let57;s see what He Who Seldom Linketh has to say: The big media takeaway, obviously, is Todd Palin allegedly demanding an endorsement from Joe Miller, which supposedly points to a Palin presidential run. The way the e-mail reads to me, though, is more as an accusation of ingratitude, not an expectation of official support. . . . Miller forwarded the alleged e-mail from Todd to a number of people (their addresses are blacked out), but it looks like they’re members of his staff — and presumably one of them is either the leaker or forwarded the e-mail on to someone who leaked it to the anti-Palin blogger. The question is . . . why? Even if there are Huckabee loyalists involved in the campaign who want to trip Palin up, why create a headache for Miller by doing this now? Wait until after election day. OK, one point at a time: Now, I have never been a Mike Huckabee fan. He seems like a nice guy and is a very skilled communicator. But the two big strikes against him in my book are (a) he is too much of an open-borders softie, and (b) at a couple of points during the 2008 campaign, Huck made some atrocious class-warfare statements. I have said that the best thing for Huckabee to do would be to spend two weeks in an intensive cram course on Austrian economics at the Ludwig von Mises Institute, disabusing himself of any inclination toward 60;social justice61; concepts. The U.S. government is not the First Baptist Church soup kitchen, OK? Given my profound doubts toward the Huck-for-President bandwagon, I harbor doubts about the political judgment of anyone who ever got aboard that bandwagon. So if ex-Huckabee people are 60;f51;ing everything up61; on the Miller campaign staff, I57;m willing to attribute that to incompetence, rather than anti-Palin malice. At any rate, thanks to Allahpundit for linking me. Did I mention that Wednesday is my birthday?
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