Sept. 27, 2008
Conservative Columnist: Palin Must Go
Former Backer Says V.P. Nominee Is "Out Of Her League," Should Quit Ticket For Good Of GOP
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Following the flack that has trailed Gov. Sarah Palin after her interviews with CBS News, ABC and Fox, a former backer of the GOP vice presidential nominee now calls Palin "a dud" and says she should bow out form the race. (AP Photo/Vinny Tennis)
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Kathleen Parker, writing in the National Review Online, says her "cringe reflex is exhausted" after watching the Alaska governor stumble through TV interviews and it's become clear to her that Palin is out of her league.
"No one hates saying that more than I do," Parker writes. "Like so many women, I've been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I've also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does."
Palin, new to national politics, boosted Republican presidential nominee John McCain in polls and excited the party's core conservatives when he chose the first-term governor for his ticket.
Some of that shine has since worn off in polls.
Parker said she thought Palin was a "refreshing feminist of a different order" when she joined the ticket, but it's become clear she doesn't know enough about economics or foreign policy to be president should that become necessary in a McCain administration.
Writes Parker:
"Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there’s not much content there. Here’s but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: “Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we’re talking about today. And that’s something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.”Parker suggests that Palin could bow out for "personal reasons," such as to care for her infant son: "No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first."
When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obama’s numbers, Palin blustered wordily: “I’m not looking at poll numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who’s more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who’s actually done it?”
If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself."
Parker wasn't the only national Review writer to call for a shake-up in the McCain campaign. Kathryn Jean Lopez wrote that Palin is not coming off at her best in interviews, and notes that in keeping Palin on a tight media leash the campaign is potentially hurting the ticket more:
" If Sarah Palin is John McCain’s secret weapon, let her go, whoever is holding her back. And, frankly, if it turns out that the 'authentic' Palin of rallies and the Republican convention is just good speech delivery in a woman with some good spirit, I want to know that sooner rather than later. (Mitt’s still available … "
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See all 402 CommentsI have a party planned for Oct 4. The "debate" will be funnier than SNL''s comedy take on the "moose candidate"!
PALIN MUST STAY!
She must go for the better of the country, Country First.
She may be doing a good job as governor of Alaska! She can go back there, and continue it!
There is precedence for McCain''s campaign: Thomas Eagleton stepped down when it was learned that at one time he had been to see a psychiatrist.
Personally, I think HE was mentally saner than a lot of the politicians we have in Washington today! But, back then he looked TEN times steadier than Palin does TODAY!
Posted by Bob5ford at 01:28 PM
LOL Hillary herself is voting for Obama. She has very strongly urged all her supporters to do the same? What does that make you?
Oh yes, a neocon shill, who never would have voted for Hillary in the first place.
We understand.
Please make sure she stays on the Republican ticket, for the good of the country. Country First, right??
Posted by onemoretim
Cheney''s a lizard (reptile), not a mammal.
Posted by Toby2957 at 01:50 PM
Maybe she could start with Cheney. (Too large?)
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Posted by onemoretim
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cold dudes, can''t stop laughing my a$$ off.
love it.
Her experience raising five kids far eclipses Obama''s mere two. She handles one family crisis after another with ease. She lives FAR closer to Russia than Obama, OR Biden.
Please, withdraw Palin NOW, it''s unfair not to give the Democrats at least a tiny chance of winning!
Posted by onemoretim
Cheney''''s a lizard (reptile), not a mammal.
Posted by smurfcrusher at 01:53 PM
How about Rove?"
Posted by onemoretim
Different! Rove is a Deneevian Slime-devil.
Posted by onemoretim at 01:47 PM : Sep 27, 2008
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He SHOULD HAVE! That would have been a great choice!
But, he didn''t, because Paul is an EQUAL if not superior to McCain himself! Most Republican presidential nominees won''t pick someone they consicer to be an equal or greater than them!
Posted by onemoretim at 01:47 PM : Sep 27, 2008
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He SHOULD HAVE! That would have been a great choice!
But, he didn''''t, because Paul is an EQUAL if not superior to McCain himself! Most Republican presidential nominees won''''t pick someone they consicer to be an equal or greater than them!"
Posted by stn_sage
McCorpse. Hahahaha!! Sounds like a new Zombie burger. It''s so much less fattening than mooseburger! LOL !
I have said this before and I will state it again. I am contacting my county election board and if I can write in Hillary Clinton for President and Sarah Biden for VP.
My daughter looked it up and no where does it state, the President and VP have to be from the same party.
Anyone of you out there voting for Obama just because he is on the Democratic ticket had better look into your other choices, such as a write in ballot.
Somehing is VERY wrong with the Obama picture.
Picking Palin was a desperate attempt to gain the support of evangelical nut-jobs who don''t trust him, and it was a big mistake by McCain. She is totally unqualified to be president, and that''s what she will have to be when he kicks the bucket. Keeping her just reinforces what bad judgement he has.
Dumping her, on the other hand, also reinforces what bad judgement he has! How could he have been so stu.pid as to pick someone he is forced to dump due to her absolute unsuitability for the job?
Any way you look at it, McCain has BAD JUDGEMENT and does not deserve to be president.
Which reminds me. Did you all hear about the candidtate who "suspended his campaign" so he could "rush back to washington" to "solve the economic crisis" but then (1) didn''t actually rush back to washington but instead did a TV interview with Katie Couric and then spent the night in NYC and then went to a big shindig the next morning, and (2) couldn''t do anything to solve the problem when he got to washington and (3) had the gall to suggest MORE DEREGULATION when it was deregulation that caused this mess in the first place!?
That same candidate swore he would NOT resume his campaign until AFTER the problem was solved, but then with no solution in sight, he showed up at the debate and refused to look his opponent in the eye as he repeated lie after lie from his stump speeches!
Who was that serial liar with the guilty conscience? Why, none other than Bad Judgement McCain!
McCain was WRONG about the economy. (He''s been saying, "It''s fundamentally sound"???).
McCain was WRONG about Iraq (He said, "It will be a piece of cake"???)
McCain is WRONG about deregulation. (It''s the SOURCE of the problem, not the cure!)
McCain was WRONG to pick an air-headed bimbo as a running mate. (She "speaks in tongues", wants to destroy the world to "bring back jesus", and thinks she can see Russia from her back yard and that that somehow qualifies her to handle foreign policy!)
McCain is just WRONG in every possible way.
NOBODY is fooled by this BS! Hillary says she is voting for Obama! If you love Hillary so much, why the hell would you vote for anyone other than the person she is voting for?
Are you kidding?
She can field dress a moose!
She has five children!
She''s hot!
Obviously that is needed in Washington.
This is what bothers me for the good of the party?
Hey nut case what about the GOOD OF THE COUNTRY!
So the party for the conservatives comes before country. Well, I am sure you helped a lot of swing voters out on that one. Good luck with it you clowns will need it.
The core of this argument shouldn''t center around Palin, it should be about McCains judgement! He picked her. Just one of many "what the he** was he thinkin''?" actions he has taken in his campaign.
She''s really starting to get that First Dude were not in Alaska anymore look...
She can see Russia from Alaska so she is an expert on foreign relations.
She can also see the moon from Alaska so she is also qulified to be an astronaut !!
That should sway a few votes!
I hear these witch doctors can weave a spell or two to make the undecideds change their minds!!
When I see women like this Kathleen Parker character so quick to want to eat her own, it truly does bring out the sexist in me.
I''m reminded of how my very easy going son is always coming home worn out and complaining about his job....A job I know down deep he loves with a passion. But, he''s a senior manager over 32 people, of which 28 are females.
He simply doesn''t have a clue about how to keep the females passified. He says he never hears a word from the four men, but the women seem to invent reasons to fight with each other.
So for these reasons, John McCain has lost all HONOR and should NEVER be allowed to make another decision regarding our country because in making this one decision [in which he had many other very qualified people], his JUDGMENT was unacceptable and he made the WRONG DECISION. He has jeopardized our country on a world level. He should be ASHAMED of himself because with this judgmenmt he has not only put "himself first", but he put our "country dead last".
I say, "THANKS, BUT NO THANKS ON THIS BRIDGE TO DISPAIR, DANGER AND DISASTER"!
When I see women like this Kathleen Parker character so quick to want to screw over their own, it truly does bring out the sexist in me.
I''m reminded of how my very easy going son is always coming home worn out and complaining about his job....A job I know down deep he loves with a passion. But, he''s a senior manager over 32 people, of which 28 are females. And, I''m talking college educated, professionals...Not your average line worker types. All of them far more educated than this Parker woman, no doubt.
He simply doesn''t have a clue about how to keep the females passified.
He says he never hears a word from the four men, but the women seem to invent reasons to fight with each other.
With America facing historic debt, multiple war fronts,
stumbling health care, a weakened dollar, all-time high
prison population, skyrocketing Federal spending, mortgage
crises, bank foreclosures, etc. etc., this is an unusually
critical election year.
Let''s look at the educational background of the
candidates and see what they bring to the job:
Obama:
Occidental College - Two years.
Columbia University - B.A. political science with a
specialization in international relations.
Harvard - Juris Doctor (J.D.) Magna *** Laude
Biden:
University of Delaware - B.A. in history and B.A. in
political science.
Syracuse University College of Law - Juris Doctor (J.D.)
vs.
McCain:
United States Naval Academy - Class rank 894 out of 899
(meaning that, like George Bush, McCain was at the bottom of
his class)
Palin:
Hawaii Pacific University - 1 semester
North Idaho College - 2 semesters - general study
University of Idaho - 2 semesters - journalism
Matanuska-Susitna College - 1 semester
University of Idaho - 3 semesters - B.A. in journalism
Now, which team are you going to hire to lead the most
influential nation in the world?
LoonieTune Barbie.
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You have just deliniated why McCain/Palin is so attractive to the "dumb as a box of rocks is really cool" streak we have in our culture.
That critique appears to be selectively and unfairly targeted at Palin. Why single her out.
It applies equally to Obama, and that is more disturbing because Obama want to be the president.
CBS practices censorship of criticism of Obama.
I am OUTRAGED that McCain would do this to America. In selecting her based upon her looks and placing ''himself first'' in his effort to win this election, he completely lost sight of his once oft touted honor. SHAME ON McCAIN for "using" Palin to win an election. But then again he has always hid behind some woman''s skirt and never been good to women! He has not only lost his HONOR, but he has lost his MIND as well!
John McCain can''t win because he doesn''t inspire the conservatives. Add Palin and the entire base plus Reagan Democrats are inspired to vote for the Republican ticket, instead of just voting against Obama. And now you''re talking subtracting Palin?
Yeah right.
I''m sure the better alternative is Obama, who''s expertise on foreign affairs brought forth this wisdom, "Iran is just a little country. It can''t do us any harm."
Yeah, big problem.
But the reality is is that after 8 years of Bush, with the economy being the number one concern, with McCain so obviously subscribing to the same economic philosophies as Bush for the most part, HE''s the true drag on the ticket.
What I said yesterday is that if McCain could switch out Palin for an economic expert who''s also a populist who also doesn''t upset the conservative base, he might win - that''s not just everything Palin''s not, it''s everything McCain, Obama, and Biden aren''t as well. Implicit in that is that the person would have to be exceptionally smart, be good with theory, and have empathy.
That''s the height of weakness for women use disassociation from another woman to shore up their feelings of vulnerability. Street rules dictate you only turn to disrespect as a counterattack with people who display disrespect to others to garner respect. If you were all so much smarter and tougher you ought to know that and be able to show it on your own steam without having to put Palin down to draw the contrast. IF . . .
---"Kathleen Parker, writing in the National Review Online, says her "cringe reflex is exhausted" after watching the Alaska governor stumble through TV interviews and it''s become clear to her that Palin is out of her league."---
Well look, a large part of Obama''s allure is that he''s exceptionally smart, excels at theory, and has empathy for peoples suffering - all contrasts to George Bush. That''s as much a part of what constitutes ''change'' as is the policy shift, and the level of experience (with both he and Palin having that as a plus).
On some level people appreciate career-long politicians with decades of experience, and experience insulates McCain and Biden who are equally gaffe-prone from criticism, which Palin doesn''t have.
A conservative columnist who welcomed Sarah Palin''s entry in national politics now says she''s proven to be a dud [...]
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That makes me laugh...the conservatives are still "Republicans" though, even though time after time the people who really control the RNC use them not for America, not for conservative principals, but solely as a vehicle to get them to more wealth.
lolll...in the meantime, those things that are truly the core of America - its citizens - suffer under the onslaught of Republican greed in lockstep with the decay of America''s infrastructure and economy.
"Conservatives"...fools who are just tools.
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