Eagelburger: Palin’s Not Qualified
Lawrence Eagelburger is a rock-ribbed Republican, a McCain supporter, someone listed as a McCain adviser, etc. And he says this:
The remarks took place during an interview on National Public Radio that was, ironically, billed as “making the case” for a McCain presidency. Asked by the host whether Palin could step in during a time of crisis, Eagleburger reverted to sarcasm before leveling the harsh blow.
“It is a very good question,” he said, pausing a few seconds, then adding with a chuckle: “I’m being facetious here. Look, of course not.”
It’s all old hat at this point.
But here’s a different point. Recall when Palin was first picked? I recall reading at the time various dire warnings from hither and yon — from friends of mine, even — that liberals attacked her at our own peril . . . that the American people were secretly yearning to be led by a dim-witted, far-right, scandal-plagued first term governor of a weird state. What ever happened to that? I think it’s easy to overstate the role the disastrous Palin pick has played in creating John McCain’s problems, but I don’t see any way to deny that it’s been a net negative for exactly the reasons it seemed like a problematic choice on the day she was announced.
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October 31st, 2008 at 9:30 am
How much coverage will Eagleburger get, vs Khalidi?
McCain’s own supporters say he is a screw-up who picked an incompetent. But the news is that Obama met someone scary.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:32 am
I cannot take exception to any of the adjectives applied, except to the one that suggests Alaska is a weird state.
Been there, and not much different in many respects to the rest of the country.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:40 am
It is a relief to find that we are not living out a Gore Vidal novel.
On the other hand, methinks we haven’t seen the last of Ms. Palin. I only hope she continues to be, and symbolize, the disastrous rump Christianist-jingoist-whiter-than-white GOP. Thatcher she’s not–but a horrifyingly successful demagogue and agent of satan she may yet turn out to be.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:43 am
The dim-wittedness and scandal-plaguery wasn’t fully known at the time, remember. And she gave a pretty good speech in Minneapolis. (/rationalizing)
Probably some of us were guilty of condescension, of thinking Palin was a little more delicate or demure and not the eager McCarthyite she’s turned out to be. I could picture Joe Biden overplaying his hand in their debate and saying or doing something that looked like bullying a girl. Instead, he came off as more sensitive and empathetic than she did.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:43 am
My father, an avid McCain supporter who loves Palin, has admitted as much to me. I pressed him on it and he finally agreed it would take her at least 100 days as VP to be remotely ready to handle the job. Unfortunately the hardcore right-wingers don’t care, they think McCain is invincible and they’re just happy to have some Muslim-baiting extreme anti-abortion eye candy.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:48 am
Hatch makes a good point. When people take decades worth of GOP anti-government rhetoric to heart, this is the result — they really don’t give a shit or even acknowledge the relevance of experience and competence.
October 31st, 2008 at 9:49 am
The interesting thing is that I don’t think the Palin pick ended up being a net positive or negative, in terms of polling. It does, however, give conservatives an excuse to say why they’ll vote for Obama – not because he makes them feel better about the future or they don’t think McCain understands the economy… but because Palin is a lousy pick.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:12 am
I think “that liberals attacked her at our own peril” was in fact very true and a big part of her slide. Obama set the tone and people stuck to it to an encouraging extent.
Palin was chosen in part to act as a target, a lightning rod — to act plucky and besieged as mean ol’ liberals attacked her. There was some of that at the beginning, and she thrived in that environment. Then the Obama campaign pretty much ignored her, and the initial media feeding frenzy (”who is she?!! How many skeletons does she have in her closet??!”) died down, and she didn’t have that crutch anymore.
She tanked in interviews with genial, avuncular Charlie and sweet, solicitous Katie. Nobody really went at her in a way that would get her sympathy from anyone but the most die-hard fans.
So I think it was true that liberals attacked her at our peril, and I think the lack of attacks — as opposed to just plain reporting on the many weirdnesses of Sarah — left her exposed and vulnerable.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:13 am
Hey, watch it with the “weird state” rhetoric!
Unusual, even unique — sometimes a little kooky — there are lots of appropriate adjectives. But there are plenty of Alaskans who do NOT support Palin, and they don’t deserve to be insulted.
- former Alaska resident and current Alaska voter
October 31st, 2008 at 10:15 am
This nation and the world face problems that would test the combined wisdom of everyone who has ever drawn a breath. Incredibly talented people are needed to help solve numerous troubles. They will require very advanced understandings of the issues and have a pronounced ability to delegate authority and recruit talent. One of the two parties ruling this nation has put forward as the putative future leader of their faction Sarah Palin. What does it say for the bankruptcy of intellect and wisdom in their camp that Sarah Palin, out of 300 million people, is the best person their party has to offer? She deigns to be the one to challenge for the leadership of the free world. Millions of citizens, including some of the most prominent thinkers and commentators on The Right, promote this, clamoring for her ascendency. She had to hopscotch across a half dozen university campuses to stitch together enough disparate credits for a bachelors in Home Ec or some such drivel. Meanwhile PhDs in political science, public policy, economics and international studies are judged second rate talent to her skills? Current politicians with pedigrees including stints as judges, doctors, lawyers, diplomats, professors, engineers, military officers and scientists are relegated to the sidelines so Sarah Palin can assume leadership of the Republican Party? And damned few within the party thinks it the least bit odd? Truly fodder for a Twilight Zone episode.
As an aside, I caught a clip of McCain at one of his rallies that occurred in the last couple days. He introduced “Joe the Plumber” as one of his campaign advisors and expressed “thanks for all he has done for the country”. Campaign advisor? And I realize Joe did a stint in the Air Force, as have millions of others served the military. However, McCains laudatory introduction made it seem as if Ol’ Joe had forsaken all else to ceaselessly serve the public good. My perusal of his biography doesn’t find anything especially heroic or sacrificial in his life story. Am I missing something?
October 31st, 2008 at 10:18 am
I was one of those who were quite nervous about Palin early on; I simply assumed that she was much more prepared and well-informed and politically sophisticated than she was. I have been much surprised, and relieved, by her general political awfulness.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:31 am
Look, Matt, you’re being a little anachronistic. The first attacks against Palin were mainly personal. The “lack-of-capacity-for-the-job” attack only developed later, after the Couric interview, etc. At first, although it was clear her experience was slight, it wasn’t clear she didn’t have a clue. That was what cinched it. I mean, a week or so after her selection, I heard Darcy Burner warn against attacks on her being perceived as sexist because (and I paraphrase closely), “Tim Pawlenty didn’t have any more experience than she does, and if he’d been picked, nobody would have batted an eye.”
Palin destroyed herself; nobody else destroyed her.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:34 am
Most Americans are secretly still in love with the concept of a true elite in the WH … and why the hell not? Palin’s flagrant vulgarity, in combo with her undeniable stupidity — good for a one-nighter but def. NOT marriage material. In a funny way, she’s Bill Clinton’s on-the-side dream girl and has done more to bring me to forgiveness of Hillary Clinton for her despicable primary performance than anyone or anything else. A grotesque.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:44 am
I thought it all worked out pretty well. Had Obama and the Democrats said that Palin was totally unqualified at the outset alot of people would have had a visceral reaction against it and disagreed regardless of later evidence to the contrary. Having Sarah Palin explain at length why she wasn’t qualified over the course of the last couple of months(to Couric, et al) is a lot harder for reasonable conservatives to deny. Granted she wasn’t trying to destroy her party and career but she still did a much better job of it than any of us could have.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:44 am
McCain got what he wanted out of her, which was to stifle the hubbub over Obama’s historic acceptance speech. I was dumbfounded and truly didn’t think she’d get as far as the convention. I don’t understand how her convention speech got any good reviews. It was pure vitriol. Sure the conventioneers raved, but to sane observers she was plainly an ignorant fraud. I have to admit, though, I was pretty nervous during the McCain convention bounce.
It was wise of the Obama campaign to just let her self destruct. But I think Gore thought the same of Chimpy. I don’t know why it took two terms of failure before people saw through him. I think the major difference was that he is royalty, and she’s not. She’s only a diva, not a princess.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:44 am
Yes, Armando is wrong about everything all the time…. We know this now. Remember when Obama COULD NEVER WIN TEH WITEYS? Mr. Big Tent is the reason I no longer read TalkLeft, despite mostly practicing criminal defense and loving the site for years. Wish they’d boot him already – it’s not like they don’t know he’s a crappy blogger.
October 31st, 2008 at 10:48 am
It would behoove Dems to have Sarah Palin to come out of this race with a political future. Whenever President Obama proposes something, and the press goes to look for someone’s opinion in opposition, I’d like them to be looking to Sarah Palin, wouldn’t you? That is why you hear very little from the Obama campaign about her.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:06 am
I am disgusted by all this Palin-bashing. Palin has been governor of the largest state in the Union since before McCain announced his candidacy. The. Largest. State.
Prior to that she ran some kind of energy commission thing, and before that she was a business-owner and chief executive of a pretty sizeable suburban town – for years.
She has a record of running in a primary election, which means she took on corrupt members of her own party.
And she did too stop the bridge to nowhere.
I defy any of you to find another governor who can claim this list of accomplishments. What you hate about her is that she’s a talented politician, a superb communicator, and as the future of the GOP you recognize the threat she represents. The vicious beating she’s taken at the hands of the MSM is all the proof I need that you liberals recognized a threat that had to be eliminated.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:15 am
#18 has to be snark…right? Is it scary that I can’t tell anymore?
October 31st, 2008 at 11:19 am
Rick Wicks: Alaska might not be a weird state, but Alaskans elected Palin and gave her an 80% approval rating, so it’s safe to say that Alaskans are weird.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:21 am
Hieronymus, You’re kidding, right? Because I don’t think that even a Republican could be that much of an idiot.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:34 am
as the future of the GOP
We can only hope!
October 31st, 2008 at 11:34 am
It was obvious to me even before Palin delivered her first speech that McCain had blown it. Even after the Republican convention led to some panic on the left, I predicted that Palin would undermine McCain badly.
It was not just her scandals and dim-wittedness, however. The basic problem is her ignorance and lack of experience; she knows next to nothing about domestic and foreign policy issues or about the federal government. So her selection took away from McCain the one semi-legitimate issue he had to use against Obama. In its place, McCain concentrated the “experience” argument against himself and Palin. Simultaneously, it called into question his judgment (reinforcing an Obama argument), seriousness, and steadiness.
There’s also Palin’s character, demeanor, and the role that McCain assigned her. Palin has been on the attack since the day she was rolled out. That was never going to work because the public doesn’t know her. She has no credibility that she can leverage into attacks on other, better known politicians. Even worse, she tried to ridicule and dismiss the Democratic ticket when she had no standing herself to do so. Palin came across as mean-spirited and hyper-aggressive (which, evidently, describes her nature).
The first week was crucial if McCain/Palin were going to blunt those problems. They had to lend her an aura of credibility and didn’t really try to. She needed to give speeches (since she couldn’t just talk) about issues, give voters the (false) impression that she knew some details about something. They needed to inoculate Palin against the inevitable revelations about how little knowledge and experience she actually had.
Instead, McCain/Palin went for a showy roll-out of the VP as celebrity smart-aleck, one that was completely lacking in substance. I was virtually certain on the first day that the Palin pick was doomed, and the Convention sealed it as far as I could see.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:35 am
“weird State”
really bad choice of words. I thought we just went through a week of hand wringing over republicans in general and mccain and palin specifically, defining Americans and anti-Americans.
There is no “weird” state. Each is an essential part of the whole.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:37 am
It may be easy to overstate the role of the Palin pick, but I think that almost everyone has understated it. Within an hour or two of hearing about this pick, I predicted that the election was over, and the only remaining question was how big Obama’s landslide would be. I stand by that now.
To me, the pick was obviously a horrible one, even before I knew exactly how dimwitted Palin really is. I’m surprised how blase other people (Andrew Sullivan excepted) have been about it.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:43 am
“I recall reading at the time various dire warnings from hither and yon…”
And you were above such paranoia all along, right?
Dude! George W. Bush lost an election, got installed by the Supreme Court anyway, allowed terrorists to attack us, left one war unfinished, started another one dishonestly, conducted it atrociously–and got re-elected!
I think Democrats can be forgiven for behaving like dogs who’ve been behind an invisible electric fence for eight years. We’ve had some serious negative reinforcement regarding the kind of folly the American electorate will fall in love with, and we won’t feel sure we can leave the yard until the sun comes up next Wednesday.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:43 am
Matt can clarify this but I’m pretty certain he means “weird state” not as in there’s something weird about the people but that its sparse population, high federal subsidies and oil-dependent government makes it this weird right-wing-welfare-libertarian state which is utterly atypical of the situation in the rest of America.
This is very different from asserting that the people are not “real Americans”. Its not saying someone born in Alaska or even raised in Alaska is weird, just that governing Alaska is very different from governing just about any other place in the US.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:44 am
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Well if they have to match that list then we’re pretty much restricted to Alaskan governors, because nobody else could claim to have governed The. Largest. State.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Governor_of_Alaska#Living_former_governors
I’m gonna go with Michael Anthony Stepovich, “the last living pre-statehood governor in the United States.” Who else has piloted a territory into statehood? NOBODY, that’s who, buster! That’s unmatched experience you can believe in, My Friends. And at 89 years old, he’ll make McCain look spry. Good old Joe the Michael Anthony Stepovich.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:48 am
Yah, I’m just fooling around. Sarah Palin is an imbecile. My skin was literally crawling when I wrote that. Sorry, no more trolling today!
October 31st, 2008 at 12:02 pm
There is no “weird” state. Each is an essential part of the whole.
What is this, an after-school special? Let’s tone down the kumbaya a bit and remember that “weird” doesn’t always mean “bad.” (Keep Austin Weird!) Alaska’s just in a much, much different place than the rest of the states, literally and figuratively–isolated, extremely sparsely populated, rich in natural resources, no taxes, semi-socialistic economy. The existence of a party devoted to Alaskan independence is a symptom of this difference. None of that means Alaska is less American–it’s just got a curious set of circumstances.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Alaska is a weird state from a US governance perspective, otherwise it is populated by folk (though not too man of them) just like anywhere else.
Matt, the point is that the Obama campaign handled it perfectly: stand back and watch the McCain campaign collapse under its own contradictions. Very, very savvy.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:06 pm
The whole thing is just bizarre. When they had the vice-presidential debate and there she was winking and “shouting out,” I sat up straight all right, in shocked disbelief. It was just appalling beyond words. If this clueless one-step-up-from-trailer-trash ever became president, I don’t know what would happen. I swear the only worse pick for public office was Caligula’s horse.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:12 pm
I made an argument that someone could, if they were lazy, might characterize as:
On the other hand, I stand by my argument: the real electoral benefit lays not in attacking Palin, but in attacking McCain for picking Palin.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:28 pm
“Weird state” in the sense that Alaskans are recipients of the most widespread and consistent government payout in the land. In fact, it’s spread to 100%; every man, woman, and child in Alaska will get $3269 this year, according to my sources ($1500 of which is directly attributable to Palin). That’s bound to change the way one views “redistribution of wealth.” What’s really weird then is that 55% of Alaska’s voters still buy into McCains warnings against the same.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:32 pm
There is absolutely no basis or evidence that mccain would have done better or worse without palin. mccain was always going to self-destruct in some way – he is that type of guy. Choosing palin may have been part of that, or she may truly have rallied the slope-browed, slack-jawed republican “base” without which mccain could be at 25% today instead of 41%. Choosing another rat-brained republican or LIEberman for VP could have had mccain fairing far worse than he is, or maybe better.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:39 pm
I remember, when she was picked, feeling that her downfall would be troopergate (which doesn’t seem to have hurt her at all). I assumed that she couldn’t have made it to the Alaska governor’s mansion if she was totally incompetent.
And yet we now see that the weight on McCain’s campaign has been a) her being so unqualified, and b) McCain’s poor judgment in picking her.
What I haven’t heard discussed in the media or on any of these boards is, what would count as “qualified”? What’s the minimum threshold?
Whatever it is, it’s a much higher bar than she can clear.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
BruceMcF: your argument wasn’t the problem – it allows for an attack on her ability to govern the country. The bigger problem when she was picked was Armando’s “OMFG it’s so dangerous to mention her inexperience” argument.
The idea was that Obama is inexperienced, therefore we can’t call Palin inexperienced. When this bit the dust (becuase Obama, unlike Palin, is smart, clearly grasps policy and doesn’t say stupid stuff all the time) the argument quickly turned into “any attack on Palin’s experience is sexist.”
Sure, some attacks were sexist and stupid, but there’s a huge difference between blogs and the campaign itself that this line of argument misses. The point of blogs is to test lines of attack and advance the ball where they are effective. An attack from Kos is not the same as an attack from Obama/Biden. It was, and remains, good strategy for Obama to largely ignore Palin b/c she’s not on, or even near, his level. Blogs, however, should be attacking rightwing idiocy on all fronts, wherever it exists. Especially in a case like this, where there’s so much dirt to be found and “polite” reports won’t agressively seek it out on their own. Members of the netroots should understand this.
October 31st, 2008 at 12:40 pm
It scares the LIFE out of me that Palin will not go quietly into the night after this election. However, I have to have faith in the American people. And specifically, I believe WOMEN will play, from this point forward, a far bigger role in national politics, and will ensure that we are NOT represented by such an idiotic, hypocritical, bigoted woman like Palin. Heck her kids don’t go to school (they’re used as campaign props), she’s in a nightmare ethics investigation that reeks of gubernatorial idiocy, and she can’t string a complete sentence together to save her life! What in the WORLD do conservatives see in this woman?
October 31st, 2008 at 1:00 pm
“There is no ‘weird’ state. Each is an essential part of the whole.”
Oh snap. I nominate this for Most Debatable Comment. You won’t catch me in Mississippi ever, ever, ever again.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:15 pm
When Palin was selected, we knew immediately that she was very short on relevant experience, and had an ongoing ethics investigation aimed at her. We didn’t know that she was an eager cultural warrior demagogue, a pathological liar, venially corrupt, anstonishing shallow in her thinking, and even more astonishingly poorly informed on important national and international issues. Obama was wise not to make her the issue. For Democrats, she’s been the gift that keeps on giving. I’ll be happy to let her be tribune of a shrinking, geographically marginalized, aging lilly-white rump party.
October 31st, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Palin is not exiting the national stage should she lose. She will remain the darling of The Right for many, many years. I predict her own radio or television show, a book or two with national signing tours and all the media appearances to support it, probably a magazine or newspaper column and eventually another run at some national office. If her legal troubles in Alaska persist it will be a gift to her. Conservatives rally around anyone in hot water unless naked children or Communist spies are involved. Get used to it, she’s going to be in your face for a decade or more. Her MILF factor alone assures a following of millions.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:01 pm
Having been to Alaska, I did come away with the feeling that it was an odd state at least. But to me, odd is good. The people there are extremely diverse – not racially, but in other ways. You’ve got a sizeable neo-hippie population, survivalist types, outdoorsmen, conspiracy theory types, etc. from the left and right edges of the spectrum as well as a whole lot in between. It may be a red state now but it used to be blue a few decades ago and it is not a monolithic red but rather an iconoclastic red. The people are great though. The feeling you get there is almost like being in a different country because it is so much different than the lower 48. As a result, I do think it is a reasonable question as to how being Governor of Alaska gives you experience that would apply to running the country, much of which being very different than Alaska.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:29 pm
The election is still in doubt. Palin could be a heartbeat away from the presidency. How anyone can sleep at night is a mystery to me. Sometimes the anxiety over that possibility makes me start sweating like I’d just walked up 10 flights of stairs.
Why McCain didn’t just nominate his horse is a mystery to me.
October 31st, 2008 at 2:30 pm
“What ever happened to that?”
MY should take the opportunity to point out he was right to call for Palin to be attacked, but two points:
3. The question was also about to what extent and in what way Democrats should attack her. Obama and Biden have said almost nothing negative about her. And yet, is there some dark secret about her that Biden and Obama would only have revealed to people if the ticket had taken off the gloves? No; the truth is getting out pretty quickly as it is. Matt Damon does indeed know quite a bit about her before the election and he probably would even if partisans had been more restrained.
2. Some of the liberal attacks on her were very unproductive because they were purely cultural. Jacob Weisberg wagging his finger at the Palins’ parenting, Bill O’Reilly style, is *not* what caused her approval numbers to drop. It was a solid media focus on her knowledge and qualifications, the kind of focus that avoided all the temptations that liberals had like making fun of her kids’ names.
Re: weird
There are objective measures of weird, and Alaska is definitely weird. nate Silver has applied a model from baseball to see which states are like which state socially and politically. UT, HI, AK the most unusual states in the union is a political figure had been solely involed in one of these states, one might legitimately wonder whether than experience was applicable to the federal government.
http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/07/state-similarity-scores.html
October 31st, 2008 at 2:37 pm
The poodle threw up on the rug:
“Palin has been governor of the largest state in the Union since before McCain announced his candidacy. The. Largest. State.”
Area-wise, yes, but that’s a piss-poor metric to use when determining governing experience. To start, Alaska is 47th in population, which is a much better – although still rather raw – measure of complexity in governance. Add to that the enormous oil royalties that Alaska receives which allow the state to forego most forms of taxation that other states rely upon for income, and Alaska is likely the easiest state in the union to govern.
“Prior to that she ran some kind of energy commission thing, and before that she was a business-owner and chief executive of a pretty sizeable suburban town – for years.”
The “businesses” she owned never actually operated or ever earned a dime of revenue. And I’d hardly call a town of 6,000 “pretty sizable.” Perhaps for a state that has fewer than 700,000 inhabitants, but that’s a speck on the map in most states.
“She has a record of running in a primary election, which means she took on corrupt members of her own party.”
Nice to see a GOP supporter admitting that his party is corrupt.
“And she did too stop the bridge to nowhere.”
Horseshit. The bridge got yanked out from under her, but she took the money, anyway. That strikes me as even less ethical – at least the freaking bridge was serving a few people’s interests. God knows what became of the money after it went into the state’s coffers.
“I defy any of you to find another governor who can claim this list of accomplishments.”
That’s so pitiful I don’t know whether to laugh or cry. I’ll leave to you to look up the bios of other governors to discover just how ridiculous that statement is.
“What you hate about her is that she’s a talented politician, a superb communicator, and as the future of the GOP you recognize the threat she represents. The vicious beating she’s taken at the hands of the MSM is all the proof I need that you liberals recognized a threat that had to be eliminated.”
Well, I sure hope she’s the future of the GOP, because if that’s true we can hold the wake now. Your effusive praise for her intelligence and articulation says a great deal more about you than it does about her. And the “vicious beating” she has taken has been due to her inability to display a shred of intelligence or connection to any serious issues. For example, it sure was unfair of Katie to ask her what she read – boy, that’s a question that stumps lots of talented politicians.
All your post now lacks is a declaration that you were a Hillary supporter and it will win today’s golden wingnut award…
October 31st, 2008 at 3:50 pm
Re: ‘Weird state’
An homily I heard once, a piece of advice to women considering a husband-hunting trip to Alaska to take advantage of the skewed numbers of men and women:
‘The odds are good, but the goods are odd.’
YMMV
Oh, great insight by Sozobe at No. 8 above. Obama and his people seem to be making little but shrewd, astute choices.
October 31st, 2008 at 3:54 pm
Hieronymus, glad to hear it. I thought you had to be joking, but your comment was a little too true to life. “Largest state” should have been a dead giveaway, but not these days.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:07 pm
45, meet 29….
October 31st, 2008 at 4:17 pm
Eagelburger was being fair.
Were McCain to die in office, it is arguable that Palin might demonstrate greater intellectual abilities than the current President.
That ain’t saying much. But at least she seems to be a quick (if willful and immoral) learner.
In politics, dumbness can be even worse than immorality.
October 31st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
As her MILF assets amortize will she still excite the base? I doubt it. This was her chance.
October 31st, 2008 at 5:16 pm
The non attack strategy worked perfectly. If you attack the push back will be stronger. The truth this way just settled in.
October 31st, 2008 at 11:24 pm
As I watched Palin giving her first speech after being introduced by McCain, I began to despair. Here was a young, pretty, (appeared to be) bright, dynamic, disarming, charismatic, engaging candidate and a WOMAN impinging on my hope that we finally had a presidential candidate that could win the election. She also eclipsed the glow that belonged to Obama the night before when he spoke so eloquently at the Democratic Convention. Even as I heard family and friends and pundits on the left say she was an unknown from Alaska with little experience and that McCain didn’t really know her and had made a huge mistake, I felt that she would be a boon to the Republican ticket. Then I heard her “speech” at the Republican Convention, that strident, sneering , divisive, derisive diatribe against Obama and all Democrats and I knew that her attacks would generate even more enthusiasm for Obama. The next morning I contributed a lot of money to the campaign and began to work harder as many others did,too. It was tough at times to watch the fawning crowds cheering for her at her huge rallies and I still got anxious but I never got the feeling that Obama seemed to be worried.
He kept focused on the issues and stayed above the fray even as bloggers attacked her family, intelligence, Troopergate, her religion all of which I loved reading even if at times it was unseemly. And all we needed to do was to remain as calm and patient and steadfast as Obama. Do you think he knew all along that she would drag McCain down in the end? We have ourselves a winner, don’t you all think?
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