Did the McCain campaign do more than a simple google search to vet his running mate?

Question

The LA Times reported Tuesday: “One Republican strategist with close ties to the campaign described the candidate’s closest supporters as ‘keeping their fingers crossed’ in hopes that additional information does not force McCain to revisit the decision. According to this Republican, who would discuss internal campaign strategizing only on condition of anonymity, the McCain team used little more than a Google Internet search as part of a rushed effort to review Palin’s potential pitfalls. Just over a week ago, Palin was not on McCain’s short list of potential running mates, the Republican said.”

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2008/sep2008/pali-s03.shtml

Original story here

http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-palinassess2-2008sep02,0,3826591.story

Answer 1

OF COURSE NOT!  He used Yahoo!

Answer 2

That would apparently be more than the Democrats did to vet Barak Obama.

Answer 3

It sounds like the truth to me. If they (Republicans) were not in such a hurry to win the ever elusive (and imaginary) dissatisfied Hillary supporters then they would not have made such a monumental blunder. They really need to concentrate on their own fractious base instead of buying into their own lies.

Answer 4

No,,McCain is from the stone ages and thinks Google is a soft drink.

McCAin/Palin: anti-progress, anti-chioce, anti-common sense, anti-humanity.

Viagra/v****a '08 (but no birtchcontrol and no choice)!!

Answer 5

"...BUT THANKS FOR FINDING MORE PROOF OF LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS."

...and yet this is from someone who references a right-wing tabloid rag to "substantiate" apologist rhetoric?  Laughable.  Thanks for finding more OBVIOUS proof of conservative spin.

Anyhow, it is telling how ill-prepared the McCain camp was in finding a viable running mate considering the bad blood between McCain & Romney revealed in their last few debates during the course of the GOP primaries.  Huckabee could not appeal to independents and Thompson was a bust from the get-go.  LIEberman, on the other hand, is whom McSame desired from the very beginning, but the party bosses would not allow it as such a selection of a pro-choice candidate was simply out of the question.   I don't think many within McCain's campaign staff are even capable of utilizing the latest technology, much less adequately vetting possible running mates, who may be just a "heartbeat" away from the presidency.

Answer 6

Culvahouse said Palin’s review, like others, began with a team of two dozen people culling information from public sources. The team reviewed speeches, financial records, tax information, litigation, investigations, ethical charges, marriages and divorces, for a number of potential running mates.

For Palin specifically, the team studied online archives of the state’s largest newspapers, including the Anchorage Daily News, but didn’t request paper archives for Palin’s hometown newspaper for fear the secret review would become public…

Palin then was sent a personal data questionnaire with 70 “very intrusive” questions, Culvahouse said. She also was asked to submit a number of years of federal and state tax returns. The campaign also checked her credit.

NOTICE THIS HAS ACTUAL NAMES AND FACTS..  

YOUR SOURCE SAYS ONE GUY WHO WE CANT SAY WHO BELIEVES

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008...

BUT THANKS FOR FINDING MORE PROOF OF LIBERAL MEDIA BIAS.

Answer 7

Why would they do that when they have 10 times more knowledge than you or I have.  Anything you know about the government isn't even a drop in the bucket to what the government knows but then you've never been in the military so you wouldn't know that either.  So sad, you'll never know anything without googling it.