On Meet the Press today, John McCain talked proudly about how Sarah Palin was “igniting” crowds, but behind the scenes, her candidacy also seems to be setting his campaign on fire.
as open warfare breaks out in anonymous diatribes.
McCain advisers, CNN reports, are becoming “increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin ‘going rogue'” while her people are complaining about what they feel was “a damaging and mismanaged roll-out.”
According to McCain sources, “Palin has gone off-message several times, and they privately wonder whether the incidents were deliberate. They cited an instance in which she labeled robocalls–recorded messages often used to attack a candidate’s opponent–‘irritating’ even as the campaign defended their use. Also, they pointed to her telling reporters she disagreed with the campaign’s decision to pull out of Michigan.”