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Opinion: Sarah Palin’s selection as VP zinged by veteran GOP aides Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy

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Two Republican message-crafters who are well known within party circles but who in this presidential campaign find themselves outside looking in -- Mike Murphy and Peggy Noonan -- offered unvarnished opinions of the Sarah Palin VP pick today when they thought they were un-miked after an appearance on MSNBC.

The mikes turned out to be hot, their thoughts were not complimentary toward John McCain’s choice and the comments quickly made their way onto YouTube.

Murphy terms the Palin pick ‘cynical;’ Noonan says it means the race is ‘over’ (and presumably not in a favorable way for her party).

See below. But be forewarned: Murphy, who worked for McCain previously but won’t be anytime soon, and Noonan, famed for crafting George H.W. Bush’s’ No New Taxes’ speech at the 1988 GOP convention and currently a Wall Street Journal columnist, use profanities in expressing themselves.

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-- Don Frederick

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