The Pink Flamingo :: Rick Davis Is the Problem, Not Sarah Palin

Atlas Shrugs has a post Eating Our Own that is closer to the truth than just about anything I've seen. When you ad it with the "inside" information I was privy to late last spring, and it all makes sense. Don't blame Sarah Palin for any of this. She is an innocent bystander. The only mistake John McCain made was in the choice of Rick Davis for Campaign Manager.

You just don't know how much sense this makes. I've been emailing back and forth to my editor who is quite liberal. I think I've finally provided enough evidence to to prove that Palin isn't an empty headed "Barbie".

My source told me, last May or June (I'm not sure which) about Davis and how he truly disliked bloggers. Davis did his very best to disconnect some of John McCain's more devoted and willing workers from the campaign. Davis does not like the blogs and basically, from what I was told, would not put togther the internet game we needed to win. So, now he's covering is you now what by trying to destroy Sarah Palin.

It really all makes quite a bit of sense and explains just about everything. I am convinced Davis did everything he could to pervent the blogs from working with the campaign. It makes me wonder just what he was up to, and why. I don't know if his Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac connections came into play, but I don't think they did considering the timing of the incidents. I do know he did his best to distance John McCain from the press and from anyone who could help him. He did his best to deter McCain's competent supporters and volunteer workers from doing what they could to help him.

Makes you wonder, doesn't it?

Davis is one of the "sources" Kristofer Lorelli mentions in his excellent Race42008 piece about Palin being betrayed by Davis and Nicolle Wallace.

"...It has also been confirmed that the Palin smear campaign began before November 4th. At least two weeks prior to election day, Wallace and close friend Rick Davis, decided that John McCain would not become elected President of the United States. Fearful that the poorly managed campaign would prohibit them from obtaining any future high paying lobbyist or political positions (Davis resigned from his firm earlier this year at the request of Senator McCain), Wallace and Davis created an elaborate scheme to direct blame for the failed campaign towards Governor Palin, hoping to take attention away from their strategic errors. Davis and Wallace were behind the decisions to hide Palin from the press, Palin’s make-over, the ”you can see Russia from Alaska” foreign policy argument and the over coaching Palin received prior to interviews. The clothing purchases and coaching Palin received from Wallace and other campaign staff had all been approved by Mr. Davis.

Wallace and Davis are currently unemployed, although it has been reported that Davis has been receiving payments from Fannie and Freddie, acting as his single source of income. Earlier this year John McCain demanded that Davis resign from his position as one of DC’s top lobbyists. Many political observers believe that Davis permanently damaged his political career through his inability to successfully run a national campaign, which then forced Senator McCain to re-assign most of Mr. Davis’s duties as Campaign Manager to Steve Schmidt. Davis was left with one single responsibility, support and direct the Vice Presidential nominee.

I late October, the Palin smear campaign was discovered by senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain, Randy Scheunemann. Clearly troubled by this scheme and the unwillingness by Rick Davis to defend Governor Palin from the false attacks and rumors that had been circulating about her conduct during the campaign, Scheunemann decided to leak information on the Palin smear campaign to Bill Kristol. Kristol accurately reported that it was in fact Nicolle Wallace (authorized by Rick Davis) who had purchased the $150,000 of clothing for Governor Palin.

Less interested in focusing on the campaign and defending Governor Palin, Davis and Wallace pulled staffers from their campaign duties and began a Gestapo-like operation to discover who had been leaking the Palin smear campaign to the media. After searching through the email and phone records of most of the senior and HQ campaign staff, Davis discovered that Scheunemann was behind the leaks. Scheunemann was immediately fired by Davis. ..."

Back on October 28 I did a piece about Wallace being the source on the $150,000 wardrobe debacle. Wallace has just gone almost insane trying to cover her tushie on mis-handling Palin. There's only one reason for this. We all know Sarah Palin is the future of the GOP. She is the only one who has the star power to win it all. Once she figured out what was going on behind her back, she took over, and wow!

One good thing about this "betrayal" is the fact that all the dirty laundry allegedly hampering Palin and preventing her future is now being aired. We are seeing a very nasty little failure of a man attempt to destroy the future of the GOP in order to take the sting out of his personal failure. George Archibald has the best commentary I've seen on the subject.

The worst thing is the fact that Davis betrayed John McCCain, who did not deserve to be betrayed. He served an honorable and decent man very badly. Then, in order to make himself look better, he betrays Sarah Palin.

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