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Concession speeches by defeated VP candidates

posted 10 years ago by tedmccarron
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This movie was already a liberal hatchet job on Sarah Palin to begin with. One more example of this was Schmidt (played by Woody Harrelson and portrayed as being far wiser than Palin) angrily telling Palin that never in the history of the United States has a losing vice presidential candidate ever given a concession speech. What a crock that was; John Edwards had just done that for years earlier! In a movie filled with scenes making Palin look stupid, why didn't they show that and make him look like an idiot for saying that?

[–] saltnurwound 10 years ago

Sarah Palin... makes actual idiots look like rocket scientists

Steve Schmidt... is an actual smart person

[–] Niv-1 10 years ago

How on earth could you say Schmidt was smart? Rather than campaign to drop palin from the ticket he went forward with his plan to have her secretly observed by a doctor at the BBq along with the approval of Mccain. Then he witnesses even more insanity and ridiculous behavior and didn't resign from the campaign! He also could have sent out warning signs immediately that she thought the queen was the dictator of England and the UK and Saddam was behind 9/11. Schmidt was so smart to campaign every day to nmake Sarah Palin VP! What a ridiculous statement that Schmidt it smart.

[–] tedmccarron 10 years ago

No, Steve Schmidt was not smart. If he was he wouldn't have told Palin that there had never in history been a Vice Presidential candidate's concession speech, when CLEARLY Edwards had given one just four years earlier.

Schmidt was, however, a saboteur bent on ruining Palin's campaign.

[–] markdown474 10 years ago

Not sure it was Scmidt in reality who told Palin that. If this article is to be believed she was refused the chance to speak out of fear she would embarrass McCain, and the "unprecedented" thing may have just been their way of trying to get Palin to drop the idea. It's pretty clear regardless that Schmidt had a lot of disdain for Palin by the time the election was over. To call the film a liberal hatchet job due to this aspect of the movie is unfair since she in reality was told it was unprecedented by her own party.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Politics/sarah-palin-speeches-heard/story?id=8988514

[–] priscilla-hopkins 10 years ago

It was McCain himself who directed that she not be allowed to give that speech, it was not fiction invented for the movie. There are contemporaneous accounts.

[–] Niv-1 10 years ago

The VP concession speech is a long tradition that Geraldine Ferraro also participated in 1984 when she gave a speech before Mondale.

[–] redban (6164) a year ago

Schmidt just didn’t want Palin to give a concession. He said whatever he had to