Sarah Palin Smear Merchant Finally Comes Forward (Updated)

November 10, 2008 · Filed Under sarah palin

The anonymous source behind the Sarah Palin smear campaign has finally decided to reveal himself. The cowardly smear merchant is none other than McCain campaign adviser, Martin Eisenstadt. He admits to being the leaker on his own blog — and appears to be proud of what he did.

Moreover, he even admits that some of the attacks are unfair:

By now you’ve all heard the Fox News report last week that “unnamed” former McCain advisers leaked that Sarah Palin was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and which countries were in NAFTA. I was perfectly happy staying under the radar as an anonymous source for Fox News‘ Carl Cameron, but now that Palin has accused her accusers of being “unprofessional…jerks…cowards… taking things out of context, and then tried to spread something on national news” and begun to cast doubt on the Fox News report, maybe she’s right to a certain extent. For those of us on the McCain campaign who thought that she acted like a rogue diva and lost John the election, maybe we DO have a responsibility to come out in public. But Sarah… careful what you ask for: some of us may have more to reveal.

He goes to talk about her knowledge on issues:

Did we outright give her a geography quiz when we started the prep? No, of course not. But yes, in the context of the prep, it slowly became apparent that her grasp of basic geo-political knowledge had major gaps. Could she have passed a multiple choice test about South Africa or NAFTA. Probably. But it was clear that she simply didn’t have the ease of knowledge that we come to expect from a major party political candidate.

So he admits she could have passed a basic test, but then complains about her lack of knowledge. How does he figure that ANY governor picked with no advance notice would automatically be an expert on foreign policy? It would be stunning to find a governor who didn’t have “gaps” in their knowledge about things they have no responsibility for.

You really think Barack Obama knew the first f*cking thing about detailed foreign policy issues before he ran for the president? The guy was just learning how to be a Senator. You think he didn’t have “gaps” in his knowledge?

What Eisenstadt doesn’t say is why he felt it necessary to whisper these things to the press even if they were true. Does he really believe after this that any campaign is going to want to hire a back stabbing low-life scumbag like him?

I hear Scott McClellan is kinda lonely these days, maybe Martin should look him up.

-Chris Jones

UPDATE:

According to NewsBusters, this Eisenstadt guy turns out to be a hoaxer. I hate it when that happens.