Palin ‘going rogue’?

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October 25, 2008

Palin ‘going rogue’?

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UPDATED AT 8:03 PM -- A widening split has developed between Sarah Palin and key campaign aides for John McCain, with one McCain adviser saying the Republican vice presidential candidate is going "rogue," two reports say today.

Some McCain sources wonder whether Palin is intentionally making public her disagreements with campaign positions, says a CNN story (http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/10/25/palin.tension/index.html target=_blank>read it here).

“She takes no advice from anyone,” CNN quotes one unnamed McCain adviser as saying. “She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party.”

The story cites a Palin aide or aides as saying she is just trying to “bust free” from a poorly managed campaign and take more control of her own campaign.

Meanwhile, Politico.com cites four unnamed people close to Palin as saying she is increasingly ignoring the advice of former Bush aides assigned to handle her.

The tension, the Politico report says (http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14929.html target=_blank>read it here), comes amid a split in ranks between Republicans who see Palin as the potential Republican Party leader and those who stand ready to blame her if McCain is defeated.