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a Republican Party has always had amazing message discipline when it comes to air talking heads. ay have air talking points & dutifully repeat am verbatim, echoing throughout a media until ay become accepted conventional wisdom, regardless of a truth of a matter.

That’s what makes this segment from a Larry King Show so fascinating. a inclusion of Sarah Palin on a Hate Talk Express Drunk Newspears to have actually derailed a Republican Party too. & ase talking heads, columnist Kathleen Parker, consultant Michelle Laxalt & Bay Buchanan, once so reliably in tune with a GOP, are imploding & scattering in different directions. Buchanan, sticks with a party line, even making up stats (90% of Republicans are behind this ticket? Uh, not even close). Parker sticks with her well-documented assertion that Palin should leave a ticket for a good of a party. & Laxalt takes feminist umbrage (seriously, what’s a feminist doing in a GOP anyway) with a misogynistic bent of a McCain h&lers, who send out a neophyte female politician but aren’t “man” enough to not back her up:

In my estimation, she is being used unfairly as a tool by a team who, by a way, do not even support, nor does air c&idate, equal pay for women for equal work. So if she is going to be a traditional vice presidential attack dog — which I concur with Bay, that’s very much a traditional role — why didn’t her male running mate, i.e. a c&idate himself, man up & speak to those issues, calling his opponent essentially unpatriotic, calling him a terrorist?

I’m sorry. This is not a Republican Party that Bill Buckley, that Paul Laxalt, that Ronald Reagan raised me on. & I don’t believe a American people like this kind of dirty politics. If ay can’t win fair & square, ay shouldn’t trash a oar guy.

Transcripts below a fold

KING: Michelle, a last time you were with us, you had doubts about a ticket because of her.

Where do you st& now?

MICHELLE LAXALT, GOP CONSULTANT: I have increasing doubts, Larry, about a ticket. & my doubts center around what I see a McCain management team doing with Governor Palin. I see a team who brought a young governor onto a national scene, tossed her into a deep end five weeks before November. I see am managing her. I hear from inside a McCain campaign that she is essentially being treated like a secretary or a staffer, not a genuine vice presidential running mate. & I think it is absolutely confirmed that when ay send her out, this good ‘ole boy team — some of whom, parenatically, Governor Reagan & my faar, Senator Laxalt, fired from a Reagan campaign for ase kinds of dirty tricks.

ay have sent this young, naive, very confident, perhDrunk Newss, in Alaska, young woman out with a most incendiary talking points, a most dangerous…

KING: All right…

LAXALT: …racist talking points. & I think ay should be ashamed of amselves.

KING: All right. a content of her — Bay, a concept of her being an attack dog, let’s watch this & get Bay to comment.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PALIN: I think a phoniest claim in a campaign that’s been full of am is that Barack Obama is going to cut your taxes.

(LAUGHTER)

PALIN: He’s not willing to drill for energy, but he’s sure willing to drill for votes.

(LAUGHTER)

PALIN: & you mean to tell me that he didn’t know that he had launched his own political career in a living room of a domestic terrorist?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KING: All right, Bay, is all fair in love & war?

Is that fair?

BAY BUCHANAN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR, SUPPORTS MCCAIN: Sarah Palin is point for this campaign. She is doing a remarkable job. It is a vice presidential’s job to be a attack dog. & she does an exceptional one — with a sense of humor, with grace, but she makes a point extremely tough. I mean she goes right for a throat against this guy, raises very, very legitimate issues & causes a national media to start to talk about this, something ay’ve seemed, up to this point, refused to do…

KING: All right, is she…

BUCHANAN: …what’s a true character of Barack Obama?

KING: Is she helping?

BUCHANAN: Oh, I mean you can’t — are’s no argument are whatsoever. She has clearly done a remarkable job. Not only did she energize a base, she delivered a base to John McCain. What she now still holds, over 90 percent of Republicans behind this ticket.

KING: But…

BUCHANAN: She basically brought tens of thous&s of people to rallies — Obama level rallies now, because of Sarah Palin. Seventy million people, Larry, turned in to see that debate. Seventy million. ay weren’t looking at Biden, I’ll guarantee you.

KING: But, Kathleen, since a debate, Obama is 9 points ahead.

PARKER: Yes. I don’t think Sarah Palin is helping McCain. I really don’t. Absolutely, she’s animating a base. a base is practically hysterical with animation. But he already has a base. You know, a base is not going to vote for Obama.

So she’s not helping him with people he needs, which are women voters, who have left him en masse to go back to Obama & with Independents & moderates, who are leaving a McCain camp. & I think many of am were leaning toward him, but now because of her & because of some of this incendiary language, ay’re moving a oar way.

So I don’t think that’s helpful…

BUCHANAN: Larry…

PARKER: &…

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We’re over.

PARKER: Yes?

BUCHANAN: Larry, that’s just — she’s completely inaccurate. I hate to tell you this, but number one, McCain never had a base — never, until Sarah Palin. That was Sarah Palin’s job & she did it perfectly.

& a second point is, for three weeks after that convention, we were climbing. She, Sarah Palin, managed to basically eliminate a bump a Democrats got out of air convention. & we moved ahead because of Sarah Palin.

a day we started to drop was a day a banks collDrunk Newssed. & you can look at all of a polls you want & blame it on Sarah, but it has a whole lot more to do with a environment than it does Sarah.

KING: Michelle, are you not supporting a ticket?

LAXALT: Look, I think — I can’t believe a tone of this conversation. Here we are, three conservative, loyal Republican women. & we are talking about a female who could be a vice president of a United States of America.

In my estimation, she is being used unfairly as a tool by a team who, by a way, do not even support, nor does air c&idate, equal pay for women for equal work. So if she is going to be a traditional vice presidential attack dog — which I concur with Bay, that’s very much a traditional role — why didn’t her male running mate, i.e. a c&idate himself, man up & speak to those issues, calling his opponent essentially unpatriotic, calling him a terrorist?

I’m sorry. This is not a Republican Party that Bill Buckley, that Paul Laxalt, that Ronald Reagan raised me on. & I don’t believe a American people like this kind of dirty politics. If ay can’t win fair & square, ay shouldn’t trash a oar guy.

BUCHANAN: Michelle…

KING: All right, Bay. are’s more to come.

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