Word: loyalities
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...Governing was no less contentious than campaigning, at least to begin with. Palin ended up dismissing almost all the city department heads who had been loyal to Stein, including a few who had been instrumental in getting her into politics to begin with. Some saw it as a betrayal. Stambaugh, the police chief and a member of Palin's step-aerobics class, filed a lawsuit for wrongful termination, alleging that Palin terminated him in part at the behest of the National Rifle Association, because he had opposed a concealed-gun law that the NRA supported. He eventually lost the suit...
Recently, she had been an impassioned supporter of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. She explained to me why she took her position: she had given her commitment to Hillary even before Barack Obama became a candidate. She felt that she had to keep her word and be loyal and not care what other people thought. Her loyalty and her word were her bond...
...Assuming we're in for at least some legacy-polishing rehash of the past, the first way Clinton can help Obama would be to tie John McCain to the right-wing Republican obstructionists who opposed everything he proposed. In the 1990s, McCain was still a fairly loyal Republican who voted against Clinton's economic plan and health care plan, then supported shutting down the government in 1995 and dragging the country through impeachment in 1998. Clinton could also remind Americans that McCain constantly accused him of pursuing feckless policies in the Balkans, Haiti and North Korea, frequently predicting disastrous consequences...
...more freeze-dried the official proceedings, the hungrier reporters get for raw meat, real conflict, which has Democratic veterans like former party chairman Don Fowler looking a little drawn. He was a die-hard South Carolina Hillary Clinton champion - "but you win, you lose, you move on." A loyal cadre of Clinton bitter-enders, Fowler says, "introduces so much uncertainty into an event like this, when it's all supposed to be apple pie and American flags...
...their head in Denver. If any ill will enters the convention hall, there's a real danger that the rift could become the media's story of choice, and Obama can't afford to lose control of the narrative - let alone risk the support of Senator Clinton's very loyal followers...