Hot mic catches GOP strategists trashing Palin pick
From CNN Ticker Producer Alexander Mooney

(CNN) Prominent Republican analysts Peggy Noonan and Mike Murphy became the
latest victims of an open microphone Wednesday, caught after a segment on
MSNBC trashing John McCain's pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running
mate.

Noonan, a Wall Street Journal columnist and former speechwriter for Ronald
Reagan, and Murphy, a campaign strategist and onetime aide to John McCain, can
both be heard expressing disbelief with the pick of Palin after they
apparently thought they were in a commercial break.

"I come out of the blue swing-state governor world, Engler, Whitman, Thompson,
Mitt Romney", Murphy said during the mishap which has since been posted on
YouTube. Murphy later flatly says of the pick, "It's not going to work."

Noonan is heard going even further, saying of the presidential race, "It's
over."

"I think they went for this - excuse me - political bull**** about
narratives," Noonan also said. "Every time the Republicans do that, because
that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it."