Nicole Wallace: Scorched Earth Policy-- What Scorched Earth Policy?
By Heather Saturday Oct 10, 2009 2:00pm
Nicole Wallace wants us to think that the party of no has not been using scorched earth policy and trying to undermine the President at every turn-- even though she worked for the likes of George Bush and the John McCain campaign which brought us that totally non-scorched earth wonder Sarah Palin. You know... the one who said that Barack Obama was "palling around with terrorists".
How could anyone ever get the idea that the Republicans wanted to resort to a "scorched earth" policy after watching that campaign in action?
Of course, that would be asking too much of Anderson Cooper to possibly bring that up to Ms. Wallace, wouldn't it?
And she thinks Bill Frist and Jeb Bush are people "who could end up on the landscape in a presidential landscape down the road".
Really? Jeb-- who's last name is mud since his brother messed up his chances of ever running-- and the cat killer Bill Frist? Bring 'em on Nicole. Bring your good buddy Palin on with them while you're at it if that's the GOP's hope for the next presidential election. I welcome any one of them as the GOP's next nominee.
COOPER: Nicolle, have -- critics of the Republicans say, basically, look, they have a scorched-earth policy going on right now, that they are opposing anything that President Obama supports.
Is that fair?
WALLACE: That's not fair. And it's not true.
I mean, Jeb Bush has been very complimentary of Obama's Education Department secretary so far. Today, he said he was encouraged. Bill Frist was on, you know, as a very credible voice, as a doctor, talking about the need for health care reform. John McCain is -- is a statesman's statesman. And he is providing a lot of leadership and I think productive and constructive ideas...
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: But you're kind of clutching at straws. I mean, Jeb Bush and Bill Frist?
(LAUGHTER)
WALLACE: These aren't straws. These are certainly people that...
(CROSSTALK)
COOPER: Bill Frist is like, you know...
(LAUGHTER)
WALLACE: But these are people who could end up on the landscape in a presidential landscape down the road.
So, I think when you -- you look at Washington, sure, you look at House members. But when you look at the American public at large, you know, not all of what happens in Washington breaks through.
