So The View, which reportedly got rid of Elisabeth Hasselback for being - sit down - too conservative, has an audience too stupid to handle anything that doesn’t flatter their weak little egos? Kind of offensive.Īlmost anyone else The View could have considered for this slot would be light years ahead of Nicolle Wallace. That’s not what he’s there for. Gotta give the man a few swings at fastballs down the middle to let him warm up, especially if this is, a la Wallace, his first at-bat. Not pressing Wallace to badmouth conservatives would be like having Steve Schmidt on your show and asking him what he hates about Democrats. In what world is Nicolle Wallace a good representative for conservative women? Her debut featured her trademarked Palin-bashing (yawn), Cheney bashing (yawn), and talk of an out-of-touch president mismanaging a disaster (hint: it’s not the one who’s been president longer than my Kindergartener has been alive). But either way, what reprehensible behavior for campaign aides. If the leakers had spent a fraction as much time doing decent jobs as they spent talking crap, well, John McCain still would have probably lost. You know, that kind of positioning that goes light years beyond normal positioning. Or completely failing to prepare a candidate for interviews and then suggesting that the candidate was the problem. Or suggesting that the candidate had post-partum depression. Doing stuff like, oh, I don’t know, personally purchasing expensive clothing for the VP candidate and then claiming it was all the VP’s idea. There is nothing new about this.īut the McCain-Palin campaign was known for taking this to astronomically ridiculous levels. So they start positioning themselves as smarter, better, wiser, whatever, than everyone else, most importantly the candidates themselves. Now, I’ve been around enough campaign operatives to know that at some point on flailing campaigns, many of them start worrying about whether they’ll be blamed for the results of the election. In a nutshell, the controversy centers on this sentence from the VF profile: “Some top aides worried about her mental state: was it possible that she was experiencing postpartum depression? (Palin’s youngest son was less than six months old.)” You can look at some of the evidence for those now- widely accepted claims here. If various accounts are to be believed, these individuals were Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace. Basically there were two staffers on the John McCain for President campaign back in 2008 that leaked unhelpful information to pliant media like broken sieves. Let’s get the Nicolle Wallace business out of the way. Of course, they also brought back a host who believes that fire can’t melt steel, so they’re not known for their grasp of reality. That’s always been a silly model, considering how unfair a fight it is and how it “others” conservative women despite the fact that we exist in the same percentages as liberal women.īut the notion that Nicolle Wallace could serve in this role is laughable and speaks to how completely out of touch with reality the producers of The View are. Nicolle Wallace was recently hired by The View, a talk show that tends to feature three or four super-liberal hosts and then, supposedly, one conservative one.
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