The Republican party does not believe women can lead and here is another example, the election was not even a day old and the GOP is already throwing Sarah Palin under the bus. I told several people this would happen once McCain lost because they only chose her as VP to capture the Hillary voters ( The prime example that McCain is a bad decision maker). The main reason is the GOP will put a woman on the ticket when the other party has a minority to try to capture votes but they will never let a woman lead the ticket. At least not anytime soon, look for the accusations to fly left and right over the next couple weeks, cause isn’t mudslinging the GOP way?
Sarah Palin ‘did not know Africa was a continent’, say aides
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/us_elections/article5095495.ece
Sarah Palin spent “tens of thousands” more than the quoted $150,000 on clothes for the Republican campaign, met McCain aides in her hotel room dressed in nothing but a towel, and did not know Africa was a continent, according to new reports.
Fox news has reported that Mrs Palin did not understand that Africa was a continent, not a country, and did not know what countries were in the North American Free Trade Agreement.
In separate claims made in the latest issue of Newsweek magazine, the Republican vice presidential nominee was reported to have been told to buy three suits for the Republican convention, and to hire a stylist. Instead, she went on a spending spree in upmarket stores such as Saks Fifth Avenue and Neiman Marcus.
Quoting unnamed sources within the McCain camp, the magazine alleges that most of the clothes were bought by a wealthy donor, who “was shocked when he got the bill.”
An angry aide described the shopping spree as “Wasilla hillbillies looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast”, and predicted that the truth would eventually come out when the Republican Party audits its books.
The magazine also claimed that Mrs Palin used low ranking staffers to buy some of the clothes on their credit cards, and that up to $40,000 was spent on clothes for her husband Todd.
A number of articles of clothing have been lost, the magazine states.
The disclosures are made in “How He Did It, 2008”, in Newsweek’s Special Election Project, a behind-the-scenes account of the presidential election produced the day after the polls closed.
The magazine also claims that at the GOP convention in St. Paul, when aides Steve Schmidt and Mark Salter went to her hotel room to brief her, Ms Palin walked into the room wearing only a towel, with another on her wet hair. She told them to chat to Todd, adding: “I’ll be just a minute.”
Other election revelations include that on the night Hillary Clinton officially lost the Democratic nomination, she enjoyed a long and friendly phone conversation with McCain.
“Clinton was actually on better terms with McCain than she was with Obama,” reports the magazine. “Clinton and McCain had downed shots together on Senate junkets; they regarded each other as grizzled veterans of the political wars and shared a certain disdain for Obama as flashy and callow. “