Below The Beltway

According to a new poll from Public Policy Polling, a majority of Republicans do not believe that President Obama won the 2008 Election legitimately:
PPP’s newest national survey finds that a 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won [...]

This time, it’s Nicole Wallace:
NEW YORK – Former McCain campaign senior adviser Nicolle Wallace says Sarah Palin’s book “Going Rogue” is “based on fabrications,” and that the basis for Palin’s depictions of her and former McCain campaign director Steve Schmidt as villains “took place entirely in her imagination.”
In a statement to The Rachel Maddow Show, [...]

Steve Schmidt is the latest former McCain/Palin staffer to respond to the allegations in Sarah Palin’s new book:
WASHINGTON (CNN) – John McCain’s former presidential campaign manager Steve Schmidt is the latest McCain adviser to cry foul over accusations Sarah Palin has penned in her yet to be released memoir “Going Rogue.”
Excerpts obtained by The Huffington [...]

Let the war between the McCain and Palin camps begin anew:
Top aides to Sen. John McCain’s presidential campaign hit back at Sarah Palin Friday, after news reports revealed that the former vice presidential nominee’s soon-to-be-released book extensively criticizes the campaign’s press strategy – with many of its hardest shots aimed squarely at campaign manager Steve [...]

It hasn’t even been officially released yet, and it’s already clear that Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue is playing fast and loose with the truth:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Sarah Palin’s new book reprises familiar claims from the 2008 presidential campaign that haven’t become any truer over time.
Ignoring substantial parts of her record if not the facts, [...]

If the early leaks are any indication, the biggest story that will come out of Sarah Palin’s forth coming book Going Rogue: An American Life will be the war between the Palin camp and the McCain camp over the 2008 campaign:
The rollout for former Alaska governor Sarah Palin’s highly anticipated and score-settling memoir began Thursday [...]

Someone please tell Mike Huckabee to shut up:
Palin is the party’s rock star.
“Some of the people who had excoriated me and really been very dismissive of me for views that I had taken, and labeled me anything from a populist to an ignoramus — the same people have been very defensive [of] and laudatory [...]

David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s Presidential Campaign, was on Meet the Press this morning discussing his new book The Audacity to Win: The Inside Story and Lessons of Barack Obama’s Historic Victory and I thought this segment was particularly interesting:

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“I think we should [...]

Just a week or so ago former McCain Campaign strategist Steve Schmidt was saying that Sarah Palin would be a “catastrophe” as the Republican Party’s 2012 nominee, but he’s also defending the decision to make her the 2008 Republican Vice-Presidential nominee:
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A top adviser from John McCain’s presidential campaign who has criticized [...]

During the most recent of his all-too-frequent Sunday morning appearances, John McCain was asked about his former running mate:
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former Republican presidential hopeful Sen. John McCain is openly admitting that there were tensions between his former campaign manager Steve Schmidt and those close to former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, McCain’s one-time White House [...]