McCain: really thinks Palin more trouble than a Pit Bull?

Wow! How word gets around.  According to the London Guardian:

"McCain has been telling friends in recent weeks that Palin is even more trouble than a pitbull"

Palin is not my favorite person, however, at one level it seems like a set up... make the woman look bad - Maybe if McCain would have been more careful in vetting her she wouldn't be in a situation where the entire world would be hearing she is worse than a pit bull.

Her campaign for vice-president could have pushed women in politics back twenty years - thank goodness Hilary was around to show that women in politics can be competent.

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/blog/2008/nov/05/john-mccain-sarah-palin

Politics
McCain's verdict on Palin: more trouble than a pitbull
The British ambassador reveals what the defeated presidential candidate really thinks of his running mate


* Nicholas Watt
* guardian.co.uk,
* Wednesday November 05 2008 13.35 GMT


So now we know what John McCain really thinks of his running mate Sarah Palin – and that's not just because of the awkward body language between them during his concession speech in Phoenix, Arizona.

An exasperated McCain has been telling friends in recent weeks that Palin is even more trouble than a pitbull.

In one joke doing the rounds, the Republican presidential candidate has been asking friends: what is the difference between Sarah Palin and a pitbull? The friendly canine eventually lets go, is the McCain punchline.

McCain's joke is a skit on Palin's most famous line after she was picked as his surprise running mate. Palin delighted the Republican base when she said the only difference between a pitbull and a hockey mom was lipstick.

We owe the new glimpse into the tense McCain/Palin relationship to Sir Nigel Sheinwald, the British ambassador to Washington. Sheinwald recently wrote a lengthy assessment of McCain in a telegram that winged its way across the Atlantic to Whitehall.

The jaws of senior mandarins dropped when they read Sheinwald's account of McCain's thoughts on Palin which the ambassador reportedly picked up from a military friend of McCain's. The telegram was restricted to an even smaller group of people than usual for fear of another embarrassing leak. "We took one look at this and hid it away," one Whitehall source said...more