CHAOS: SARAH PALIN gone rogue/diva on the McCain campaign. Barack Obama leads. RULA BROWN

Politico's Ben Smith reports on the internal tensions that are roiling the McCain campaign, with many Palin allies voicing their unhappiness at how the campaign has been run. According to Smith, there are now "stirrings of a Palin insurgency." Some of the highlights: Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image -- even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline.

"She's lost confidence in most of the people on the plane," said a senior Republican who speaks to Palin, referring to her campaign jet. He said Palin had begun to "go rogue" in some of her public pronouncements and decisions.[...]

Anger among Republicans who see Palin as a star and as a potential future leader has boiled over because, they say, they see other senior McCain aides preparing to blame her in the event he is defeated.

"These people are going to try and shred her after the campaign to divert blame from themselves," said a McCain insider, referring to McCain's chief strategist, Steve Schmidt, and to Nicolle Wallace, a former Bush aide who has taken a lead role in Palin's campaign.
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"A number of Governor Palin's staff have not had her best interests at heart and they have not had the campaign's best interests at heart," fumed the McCain insider, noting that Wallace left an executive job at CBS to join the campaign."

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[tanio12]

Good video also people have to understand this woman is no fool. I mean she was singing the praises of Ron Paul less than six months ago so this notion that she is some dope on a rope and an outsider is not true.She is very much in Washington just not the way people envision it to be.

[littlelordfauntleroy]

you mean to say, thanks for reading out other peoples comments from a computer screen (albeit valid)

[sungod1979]

"GOD INCARNATE"

Muthafucka are you crazy? The bitch is a zero in high heels. How much syrup you stupid bastards gonna pure on the stack of shit that is Palin before you admit she ain't pancakes?

[FenixSync]

Good stuff Brown.

[WillCodeForCookies]

I actually think Palin is finally starting to make sense and to use her brain. The McCain campaign is full of insane people who actually think tactics like robo-calls will work at all. Maybe she is not so dumb after all.

[ecwaufisxtreme]

Palin can go rogue if she wants. She is GOD INCARNATE and the LIVING EMBODIMENT OF GOD HERSELF! NOBODY has the power, including aides and advisors can tell her to say and do what they tell her to do. She can do whatever she wants!