Live Mic with Noonan and Murphy on Palin, “It’s Over”

When you’ve lost these two, you’ve lost John McCain’s base. Brutal.

 Rough transcript after the jump:

Murphy: You know, because I come out of the blue swing state government work.  Angler, Whitman, Thompson, Mitt Romney, Jeb Bush.  And these guys, this is all how you want to (inaudible) this race.  You know, just run it up.  And it’s not gonna work.

Noonan: It’s over.

Murphy: Still, McCain can give a version of the Lieberman speech to do himself some good.

Noonan: I saw Kay this morning

Murphy: They’re all bummed out.  I mean, is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

Noonan: The most qualified?  No.  I think they went for this, excuse me, political bullshit about narratives and (inaudible) the picture.

Murphy: Yeah, but what’s the narrative?

Noonan: Every time the Republicans do that because that’s not where they live and it’s not what they’re good at and they blow it.

Murphy: You know what’s really the worst thing about it?  The greatness of McCain is no cynicism and this is cynical.

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