Campaign misstep for McCain?
H/T to Michelle Malkin.
Okay. We know McCain sees himself as a maverick. But, this really wasn’t one of his best moves.
Phyllis Schafly was upset that the the McCain campaign dissed the Republican National Coalition for Life’s tribute to Sarah Palin on 9/2/08. And, rightly so. It makes it a little difficult to honor Gov. Sarah Palin, when the McCain campaign won’t make her available.
“I think this is clearly somebody in the McCain campaign who doesn’t understand where the votes are coming from,” Schlafly told ABC News. “They only told me this at 10 o’clock last night, and it was a call from somebody down-the-line in the McCain campaign.
“The pro-lifers who paid $95 to come to this event because of Sarah Palin are going to be very unhappy,” she added.
It’s like Robert Stacy McCain notes in his post, “Where would the GOP and the conservative cause be today, if not for Phyllis Schlafly? For the McCain campaign to diss her (and her supporters) is a blunder of monumental proportions.“
The McCain camp has got to do better in making sure they are reaching out to the whole of the party. You can’t take pro-life conservatives for granted. And, if something legitimate does come up, where you can’t make an event like Schafly’s, don’t send notification by “somebody down-the-line” in the campaign. And, by all means, don’t do it last minute. Presidential campaigns should be well oiled machines that have things scripted out and ready to go, when the time comes. : *sigh*
Tags: John McCain, POTUS 2008, Republican National Coalition for Life, Sarah Palin
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September 3, 2008 at 12:40 pm
I’m adamantly pro-life, I’ve worked in pro-life ministries, and I support pro-life conservative causes, but this doesn’t bother me. Maybe the campaign is trying to turn down the heat on Palin. The libs are already frothing at the mouth and they don’t need any more ammunition against her. Maybe y’all are over-reacting a little. BTW: are the conservative critics of the McCain campaign completely unaware that their carping might put Obama in the White House??
September 3, 2008 at 9:37 pm
John McCain’s staffer that took the call from Phyllis Schlafly- has allegedly said that McCain knows about it and said Palin had “more important things to do”. The staffer also says they don’t need “this kind of support”, whatever that means?!
September 4, 2008 at 8:41 am
I’m not saying the campaign didn’t say those things, Scott, but I would be curious to see a link to the quotes via a credible source.