[kj] oliver / fox election spin

[B. Oliver Sheppard]

McCain aides themselves are the first who started blaming Palin, before 
the election had been cast.

The McCain aides responsible for saying things to the press like, "Sarah 
Palin is a diva," etc., were ex-aides of the Romney campaign, mostly. 
They did not want, post-election, Palin to be the new leader of the 
party; they wanted Mitt Romney to be at that helm.

Speaking of policies, they were actually discussed, like McCain's 
ridiculous $5,000 tax credit to individuals so they could privately buy 
health care on the private market.  That $5,000 credit would be treated 
as taxable income by the government and would give incentive for 
employers to drop employees' coverage, since now the govt was giving 
them a tax credit to go of and buy their own. It is one of the stupidest 
policy proposals I have ever seen, and McCain deserved to lose on that 
one, too.

-Oliver


fluw wrote:

> Palin was no doubt ill equipped for the position, but note this report you

> linked came from Fox News who..

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> are attempting to spin the story of the election, by giving people on the

> "right" a scapegoat - 

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