Conservatives piling on Poor Sarah

[Red Dawn]

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough says Palin "just seems out of her league."

National Review Editor Rich Lowry called her performance "dreadful."

Dallas Morning News columnist Rod Dreher described the CBS interview as a "train wreck."

Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker urged Palin to quit the race, saying: "If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself."


Howard Kurtz - 'Substantive' Press Is Taken for a Spin - washingtonpost.com

 

[Chris]

Here comes Romney......

 

[DavidS]

"If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself."

QUOTE OF THE YEAR!!!!

 

[kane3o1]

QUOTE OF THE YEAR!!!!

LOL, agreed

 

[Red Dawn]

A month after Gov. Sarah Palin joined Senator John McCain’s ticket to a burst of excitement and anticipation among Republicans, she heads into a critical debate facing challenges from conservatives about her credentials, signs that her popularity is slipping and evidence that Republicans are worried about how much help she will be for Mr. McCain in November.

Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, flew to Mr. McCain’s ranch in Sedona, Ariz., on Monday for three days of preparation with a team of his aides — a sharp contrast to the less structured preparation that led up to the senator’s first debate.

The amount of time and staff power being devoted to this was evidence of concern among Mr. McCain’s associates that Ms. Palin’s early triumphs — a well-received convention speech, her drawing of big crowds — has been overtaken by a series of setbacks, creating higher stakes for her in the debate Thursday with the Democratic nominee for vice president, Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. of Delaware.

“I think she has pretty thoroughly — and probably irretrievably — proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States,” David Frum, a former speechwriter for President Bush who is now a conservative columnist, said in an interview. “If she doesn’t perform well, then people see it.


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/us/politics/30palin.html?hp

 

[Silence]

it's kind of sad when the people you're supposed to be representing think you're too stupid for the job....

I can't imagine she's inspiring much confidence outside her own party at this point.

 

[Red Dawn]

More prominent Cons....


George Will: Palin 'obviously not qualified to be President'

Appearing at a Senate Press Secretaries Association reception at the Cornerstone Government Affairs office, Will offered a harsh assessment of John McCain's running mate.

Palin is "obviously not qualified to be President," he remarked, describing her interview on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric as a "disaster."
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Last week, Kathleen Parker of the National Review penned a column calling on the Alaska Governor to be dropped from the ticket. New York Time's columnist David Brooks and former Bush speechwriter David Frum have also expressed their doubts about Palin's capacity for the vice presidential post


George Will: Palin Is Not Qualified

 

[Red Dawn]

PEGGY NOONAN, prominent Con pundit and former Reagan Advisor:


...we have seen Mrs. Palin on the national stage for seven weeks now, and there is little sign that she has the tools, the equipment, the knowledge or the philosophical grounding one hopes for, and expects, in a holder of high office.
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She is not as thoughtful or persuasive as Joe the Plumber, who in an extended cable interview Thursday made a better case for the Republican ticket than the Republican ticket has made. In the past two weeks she has spent her time throwing out tinny lines to crowds she doesn't, really, understand. This is not a leader, this is a follower, and she follows what she imagines is the base, which is in fact a vast and broken-hearted thing whose pain she cannot, actually, imagine.
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In the end the Palin candidacy is a symptom and expression of a new vulgarization in American politics. It's no good, not for conservatism and not for the country. And yes, it is a mark against John McCain, against his judgment and idealism.

 

[Caligirl]

Wow, that was practically poetic.

 

[CA95380]

The sad thing is that each time she opens her mouth, and inserts her foot, she makes George W look smarter.

 

[N4mddissent]

 

[Red Dawn]

from the conservative Chicago Tribune's endorsement of Barack Obama:

This endorsement makes some history for the Chicago Tribune.

This is the first time the newspaper has endorsed the Democratic Party's nominee for president.

McCain failed in his most important executive decision. Give him credit for choosing a female running mate--but he passed up any number of supremely qualified Republican women who could have served. Having called Obama not ready to lead, McCain chose Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. His campaign has tried to stage-manage Palin's exposure to the public. But it's clear she is not prepared to step in at a moment's notice and serve as president. McCain put his campaign before his country.

 

[Dr Grump]

Forget all the other BS....Am I the only one thinking "If McCain (and vicariously his advisors) can't even get something like a running mate right, how the fuck is he going to run the country?

 

[Silence]

Forget all the other BS....Am I the only one thinking "If McCain (and vicariously his advisors) can't even get something like a running mate right, how the fuck is he going to run the country?

I think that's what everyone outside the Republican "base" is thinking. But Republicans are very party loyal. Even if they believe she's unprepared and even dangerous, they'll vote for McCain anyway, just to keep themselves in power.

 

[Shattered]

I think that's what everyone outside the Republican "base" is thinking. But Republicans are very party loyal. Even if they believe she's unprepared and even dangerous, they'll vote for McCain anyway, just to keep themselves in power.

Then can you possibly explain the many that flat out stated they WON'T vote this year because there is no reasonable choice?

 

[DavidS]

I think that's what everyone outside the Republican "base" is thinking. But Republicans are very party loyal. Even if they believe she's unprepared and even dangerous, they'll vote for McCain anyway, just to keep themselves in power.

That's scary and corrupt and THE biggest reason why I left the Republican Party. They should be able to say "Ok, not this time around, but let's do everything we can to assist the Democrats so we can help steer this country in the right direction." It's a philisophical difference that the Republicans and the Democrats have... but the Republicans should remember how well this country has run under certain Democrats.

I was watching Gretta Van Sustren last night as she read aloud all of the conservatives bashing Palin. She felt the Chicago Trib's criticism of Palin was "unfair" because they didn't compare Obama's and Palin's experience side by side. And see, THAT's why I believe the Republican Party is out of touch. Sarah Palin may have, in terms of years, the same amount of experience as Obama, but the kind of experience that they have... mayor of a tiny Alaskan village vs. State Senator of Illinois representing Chicago's South Side and Obama's understanding of the issues. Look at Bill O'Reilly's interview with Obama. Obama's not using Democratic talking points. He's talking about what he believes in deep down, based upon his life experience. If Palin went on O'Reilly, and he asked her the same questions, Palin would only be able to mouth off a few different Republican talking points. She just doesn't get it. Romney gets it. Senator Hutchinson from Texas, she gets it. There are so many more people out there that get it. And it does reflect on McCain's judgment for putting her on the ticket... perhaps McCain doesn't get it.

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