The pressure seems to be getting to McCain foreign policy advisor Randy Scheunemann. In response to a Marc Ambinder post suggesting that a faction in McCain’s campaign thinks Palin is going off script to appeal to the base, Randy sent Ambinder this email …
Just read your post. This is on the record. This is cleared by HQ. It is a fact that Barack Obama was palling around with terrorists. It was a fact before Governor Palin said it in a fully vetted speech and it is fact today. It is bullshit to claim or write anything else.
An old pal and handler of Chalabi, a big slime purveyor for McCain through the whole cycle, reputations are hard to repair. These must not be good times for Scheunemann.
