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Originally Posted by CrackerBarrel
According to Kristol - McCain is angry at the way the camp has handled her and has his two top campaign staffers with her getting her ready to go on the offensive against "Stand Up" Joe. Apparently he is furious that the former Bush aides that were supposed to be coaching her on foreign policy have instead transformed her from the attack dog she was when she was introduced into someone always in a "defensive crouch" ala the Bush White House looking for journalists out to trip her up.
If they can get her back on the attack she'll do fine. She's a good speaker (as you saw in the first week she was on the trail), the coaching has backfired and hurt her. Her job isn't to go out and outsmart Biden, it's to just do alright but attack Obama and get him distracted and responding to her instead of campaigning - the same thing that spiked McCain's poll numbers up when he first introduced her.
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Hmm.. here's a thought: Maybe she should already know this stuff and not have to be "coached"? I don't think being coached by someone makes you into a "defensive croach"... lack of knowledge does.
If she had a smidgen of a clue of what the interviewers were talking about, she wouldn't be so defensive and give lines like "uhhhh I'm just gonna have to get back to ya!" and ramble on about stuff that has nothing to do with the question being asked.
The first week on the trail she didn't do interviews... the only reason she looked like an attack dog was because she was standing on a podium in front of a bunch of people and throwing out her key phrases like "maverick" and "change" and "energy".
Hell, that woman was in a podium doing a rally and she couldn't even get the Fannie/Freddie thing right and no one even asked her a question about that.
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