The latest installment in the Palin-McCain saga has several McCain advisers suggesting to CNN that they have become increasingly frustrated with what one aide described as Palin “going rogue.”  As anyone in the communications business knows, all is not well when “sources”, “close to” a particular public individual or company start to talk off-the-record, especially when that talk is in less than glowing tones. As ever, if they won’t put their names to it, it probably isn’t very nice.

And it must be very heartening for the Obama camp to see the Republican ticket turn on itself. According to the CNN report today, that was not all the aides had to say. She’s been labelled a diva and slow to take a brief.  “Her lack of fundamental understanding of some key issues was dramatic,” said a McCain source with direct knowledge of the process to prepare Palin after she was picked. The source said it was probably the “hardest” to get her “up to speed than any candidate in history.”

It’s the communications equivalent of destroying your own infantry equipment as you flee the battlefield in disarray. 

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html#cnnSTCTe
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