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The reports from inside the McCain campaign are not pretty.

Carl Cameron is on fire, spilling the dirt on Sarah Palin (and reducing Bill O'Reilly to near silence):

[View video here.]

Via Allahpundit, who comments:

Unlike the first clip, this one does corroborate some of the details in the Newsweek report ? sort of. Newsweek claims Palin appeared to McCain?s aides in a bath towel; Cameron says it?s a bathrobe. It?s not clear if he?s lifting that story from the piece or if he got it from a source firsthand; if the latter, then there?s either one very determined person leaking to multiple news outlets or ? it?s a full-court press....

I assume this is a sign that Maverick?s headed back to the center, because if he thinks the base is sore at him now, wait until his cronies? attempts to scapegoat their idol start percolating.

More from Carl Cameron in this clip (which you've probably already seen):

We don't know who's telling these stories, but obviously, there are many people with the motivation to blame others. Even assuming the stories are true, they don't have to be told. Why destroy Palin, a rising star in the Republican Party? Who wants her ruined? I'm not saying she doesn't deserve to be ruined. I want to know if the stories are true, and I want them in their most accurate form. (She thought Africa was a country? Really? Was this the slip of a tired, inattentive person, or someone who is clearly an ignoramus?) But I also want to know who wants us to know all these ugly things and why. It can't be simply a matter of defending McCain. McCain chose Palin, and if she's no good, he bears more blame than she does. And McCain isn't going to run again, so he would do well to be gracious and low-profile right now.

ADDED: Rush Limbaugh is raging about this story. Who is doing the leaking? "Why do it on Fox?... These are the people who work for moderate Republicans." His theory is the "country club" Republicans are trying to protect their own interests and to prevent the rebuilding of the party on genuinely conservative ideology.

Full post as published by Althouse on November 06, 2008 (boomark / email).