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Palin allies report rising campaign tension

"Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to 
disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating 
occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. "

"A number of Gov. Palin's staff have not had her best interests at heart, and 
they have not had the campaign's best interests at heart," the McCain insider 
fumed, noting that Wallace left an executive job at CBS to join the campaign. 
"

"Her strategy was to be trustworthy and a team player during the convention 
and thereafter, but she felt completely mismanaged and mishandled and ill 
advised," the person said. "Recently, she's gone from relying on McCain 
advisers who were assigned to her to relying on her own instincts." 


"Reporters really began to notice the change last Sunday, when Palin strolled 
over to a local television crew in Colorado Springs. 
"Get Tracey," a staffer called out, according to The New York Times, 
summoning spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt, who reportedly "tried several times to 
cut it off with a terse 'Thank you!' in between questions, to no avail." The 
moment may have caused ulcers in some precincts of the McCain campaign, but 
it was an account Palin's admirers in Washington cheered. "

" But in an interview with the conservative radio host Glenn Beck earlier 
this week, Palin went "off the reservation" to make the campaign policy, one 
aide said. 

"I say, you know, when is enough enough of taxpayer dollars being thrown into 
this bill out there?" she asked. "This next one of the Democrats being 
proposed should be very, very concerning to all Americans because to me it 
sends a message that $700 billion bailout, maybe that was just the tip of the 
iceberg. No, you know, we were told when we've got to be believing if we have 
enough elected officials who are going to be standing strong on fiscal 
conservative principles and free enterprise and we have to believe that there 
are enough of those elected officials to say, 'No, OK, that's enough.'" 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20081025/pl_politico/14929