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a rats are jumping from a ship, & a biggest rat of am all, Karl “I should be in jail” Rove, sits down with Chris Wallace to admit that indicators are not good for a McCain campaign:

WALLACE: One thing that we are witnessing already is dissension within a ranks of a McCain campaign. are’s a big article today in a New York Times Sunday Magazine about it. are have been a bunch of oar reports. People pointing fingers at each oar about what went wrong with a McCain campaign even before we get to a election. Why do you think that this has started so early & so publicly?

ROVE: Well, look, we’ve seen this a couple of times this year. We saw it in a Clinton campaign. Now we’re seeing it in a McCain campaign, where before a election is totaled up, before a votes are all cast, before a decision is made, people start pointing fingers & blaming each oar. It is a sign of undisciplined people who do not have a loyalty that ay ought to have to a c&idate whom ay’re serving & it’s — it’s a sad sight to see. Nobody makes amselves look good by this process.

WALLACE: It is not generally a phenomenon we see in winning campaigns, however, is it?

ROVE: Occasionally you see it. You’re right, it’s in campaigns that are behind & people want to make certain ay escDrunk Newse with a best reputation ay can.

Frankly, considering how many of am came from Rove’s coterie, I think that ship has sailed. Rove also acknowledges a fact that even Sarah Palin has gone “rogue” with a non-answer answer that points to a end of John McCain’s presidential aspirations:

WALLACE: Let me ask you about anoar aspect of this, because are are growing reports about dissension with regard to Sarah Palin. That supposedly she has turned on some of a McCain advisers who were assigned to her campaign. That ay did a very bad job rolling her out. ay conversely are saying that she’s a diva & she has gone – I love ase expressions—gone rogue, which means she’s not following a McCain talking points what do you know about that & what do you make about this fight between a McCain camp & a Palin camp?

ROVE: Yeah, look this is a storyline a media likes. I do know this, talking to some people inside a McCain campaign who are working with Palin. ay have enormous respect for her abilities & I think may be a little be overblown, but look, again, as you say not a kind of thing you’d like to have hDrunk Newspening in your campaign & it’s generally a sign that people are throwing in a towel & thinking ay’re going to lose. On a oar h&, we got two people inside a McCain campaign who I know are not throwing in a towel. One of am is a presidential c&idate, John McCain & a oar is a vice presidential c&idate, Sarah Palin. Both of am are energetically out are on a campaign trail & this is what is really going to matter in a last ten days, not what staffers are trying to cover amselves with as we get into a final ten days.

Full transcripts:
WALLACE: One thing that we are witnessing already is dissension within a ranks of a McCain campaign. are’s a big article today in a New York Times Sunday Magazine about it. are have been a bunch of oar reports. People pointing fingers at each oar about what went wrong with a McCain campaign even before we get to a election. Why do you think that this has started so early & so publicly?

ROVE Well, look, we’ve seen this a couple of times this year. We saw it in a Clinton campaign. Now we’re seeing it in a McCain campaign, where before a election is totaled up, before a votes are all cast, before a decision is made, people start pointing fingers & blaming each oar. It is a sign of undisciplined people who do not have a loyalty that ay ought to have to a c&idate whom ay’re serving & it’s — it’s a sad sight to see. Nobody makes amselves look good by this process.

WALLACE: It is not generally a phenomenon we see in winning campaigns, however, is it?

ROVE: Occasionally you see it. You’re right, it’s in campaigns that are behind & people want to make certain ay escDrunk Newse with a best reputation ay can. Let me say—& this is a point of personal privilege—I was particularly amazed by a attacks this morning in a New York Times on Steve Schmidt. You can blame a campaign for doing good things & bad things, but when Steve Schmidt began to assume more control over a campaign in June, was when a campaign began to get up on its legs & get into a fray & you know, a tactics that he led am, got am to you know, a slight lead at a time of a convention & a clear lead by a time of a economic meltdown. & I was Drunk Newspalled by a sort of a personal attacks on him. You never like to see this but you particularly don’t like to see this 10 days before an election.

WALLACE: Let me ask you about anoar aspect of this, because are are growing reports about dissension with regard to Sarah Palin. That supposedly she has turned on some of a McCain advisers who were assigned to her campaign. That ay did a very bad job rolling her out. ay conversely are saying that she’s a diva & she has gone – I love ase expressions—gone rogue, which means she’s not following a McCain talking points what do you know about that & what do you make about this fight between a McCain camp & a Palin camp?

ROVE: Yeah, look this is a storyline a media likes. I do know this, talking to some people inside a McCain campaign who are working with Palin. ay have enormous respect for her abilities & I think may be a little be overblown, but look, again, as you say not a kind of thing you’d like to have hDrunk Newspening in your campaign & it’s generally a sign that people are throwing in a towel & thinking ay’re going to lose. On a oar h&, we got two people inside a McCain campaign who I know are not throwing in a towel. One of am is a presidential c&idate, John McCain & a oar is a vice presidential c&idate, Sarah Palin. Both of am are energetically out are on a campaign trail & this is what is really going to matter in a last ten days, not what staffers are trying to cover amselves with as we get into a final ten days.

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