Palin drops the Ayers bit
After attacking Barack Obama’s association with William Ayers for several days running, including yesterday, Sarah Palin made no mention of Ayers in her speech at a joint appearance with McCain in Pennsylvania that ended moments ago. Neither did McCain.
The missing Ayers reference suggest that the Ayers attacks may have backfired, and that the Obama campaign’s counter-attack — that the McCain team wants to use slimy negative attacks to distract from a discussion from the economy — may have been effective.
We’ll see if it stays this way. I think it will.
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October 8th, 2008 at 11:16 pm
This isn’t a question intended to challenge, but instead a legitimate question.
Who has been mentioning Ayers? Palin has. Has McCain? Like, at press conferences and town hall meetings? Is there any chance that, if my understanding is correct, Palin just didn’t bring it up today because its one of those things that she can sneak out at her events but can’t officially stage when standing next to McCain?
I’m probably wrong. Correct me.
October 8th, 2008 at 11:37 pm
this is a actually a completely legitimate thought. it was actually brought up in the same article:
“It’s also possible that Palin dropped the reference today because unlike in the past few days, she’s appearing jointly with McCain. But even if that’s so, it suggests that the McCain team doesn’t want McCain directly associated with the Ayers reference.”
but then there’s this:
“His top aides suggested afterward that, going forward, the candidate wouldn’t focus on the former domestic terrorist nor invoke the name of Obama’s controversial pastor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright.”
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14382.html
we’ll see. i think he’s realizing that this won’t work, and it’s not worth the damage.