The Palin Disaster: Prominent Con Writer Calls on Palin to Step Down

[Red Dawn]

Two disasters: With charlie gibson, and Katie couric.

Some cons are freaking out.

This is a conservative writer at the lead conservative Web site. This is a woman who was a fan of Sarah Palin, and now thinks Palin is wholly unqualified to be president of the United States. There is so much import to this article.

First off, the writer is a real conservative, not some liberal. (She's been called "an Ann Coulter wannabe," and Media Matters even recently sent out an alert about her.") Second, she's a woman. Third, she was a Palin fan. Fourth, she's willing to say publicly that Palin needs to leave the race. You don't do that to your own nominee unless it's panic time and you feel you have no choice. This article gives cover to anyone in the future who criticizes Palin. She was declared unfit for combat by a lead female conservative. Also, there are probably even more conservatives fretting in the wings. This also means that Sarah Palin has not rallied Republicans. She's rallied SOME Republicans. She's freaked out others, just as she's freaked out all of us.

Palin Problem: She’s out of her league.

National Review
Kathleen Parker

Some of the passionately feminist critics of Palin who attacked her personally deserved some of the backlash they received. But circumstances have changed since Palin was introduced as just a hockey mom with lipstick — what a difference a financial crisis makes — and a more complicated picture has emerged.

As we’ve seen and heard more from John McCain’s running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion....

It was fun while it lasted.

Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.

No one hates saying that more than I do. 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. My cringe reflex is exhausted.

Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there’s not much content there....

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

If Palin were a man, we’d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she’s a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.

What to do?

McCain can’t repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP’s unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden.

Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.

Do it for your country.

Palin Problem by Kathleen Parker on National Review Online



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[Article 15]

Amazingly, I think that dropping Palin would actually be worse for the ticket ...

Sucks to be them ...

 

[Ravi]

Amazingly, I think that dropping Palin would actually be worse for the ticket ...

Sucks to be them ...

Yep, because that will make them look sexist.



Republicans are a constant source of amusement, I'll give them that.

 

[Silence]

yep they are fucked either way...

 

[Chris]

I think when Palin is recommended for indictment, they will drop Palin and pick up Romney.

McCain's goal is to create "a headline a day" and try to stay close until election day.

 

[Jennifer.Bush]

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

[frazzledgear]

I think when Palin is recommended for indictment, they will drop Palin and pick up Romney.

McCain's goal is to create "a headline a day" and try to stay close until election day.

Wow -indicted for what? You under the impression she is being "investigated" for a crime of some kind? ROFL -which one would that be? Maybe you think a highly partisan legislative panel has the power to indict and charge a governor with a crime -but guess again.

Now its a "crime" if a governor doesn't keep her own political appointee when his own emails proved he tried to sabotage her, sneak funds into projects she aleady vetoed and held secret meetings behind her back? Or just if its a Republican one? This guy wasn't even her own political appointee in the first place, the previous governor appointed this guy. She could have immediately removed him from office once inaugurated -or she can removed him at any time and replace him and then turn around and replace THAT person too. Do you people even understand what is meant by "serves at the pleasure of the governor"? It means a governor doesn't have to any reason at all or any justification to remove a person from that office and put in someone else instead. It doesn't matter what this panel concludes -this guy is not getting his job back because the governor gets to decide who holds that office. Not the legislature.

Good to know what gets liberals in an uproar though and who they believe is worthy of their "outrage". Clearly you must think this commissioner was ONLY fired for not removing this trooper. He wasn't and there is lots of proof he wasn't -but let's pretend he was. (Actually he was offered another position but turned it down and just left.) That must mean you think it is INAPPROPRIATE for a governor to ask the Commissioner of Public Safety to remove a state trooper AFTER an internal investigation of which she was no part - found him guilty of drinking and driving in a patrol car while on duty, guilty of what is actually felony child abuse by tazing a 13 yr. old kid and guilty of issuing death threats against former family members.

But which would actually be an abuse of power here? Asking to have this guy removed after he was found guilty of abusing his authority and even criminal offenses by an internal investigation? Or trying to use her position as governor to PREVENT this guy from getting fired after doing these things? I have no problem answering that one. How about you? He should have been fired -and in my state WOULD have been. The fact he was once her brother-in-law doesn't mean he gets to commit crimes any other trooper would and should be fired for -but apparently some liberals think it does.

The real problem for those who think she had no other reason to fire this commissioner - if she only fired the commissioner for refusing to remove this trooper, then once she replaced him, why didn't she ask the new guy to remove the trooper -not even once? If that is why she did it -then it makes no sense (surely not even to a liberal moonbat) that she didn't ever ask to have him removed again, does it?

 

[AllieBaba]

Look, a stupid thread that went nowhere because it has no substance.

Imagine that.

 

[Missourian]

Plus you left out the best part of the article (imagine that):

Yes, she recently met and turned several heads of state as the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York. She was gracious, charming and disarming. Men swooned. Pakistan’s president wanted to hug her. (Perhaps Osama bin Laden is dying to meet her?)

And, yes, she has common sense, something we value. And she’s had executive experience as a mayor and a governor, though of relatively small constituencies (about 6,000 and 680,000, respectively).

Finally, Palin’s narrative is fun, inspiring and all-American in that frontier way we seem to admire. When Palin first emerged as John McCain’s running mate, I confess I was delighted. She was the antithesis and nemesis of the hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood — a refreshing feminist of a different order who personified the modern successful working mother.

Palin didn’t make a mess cracking the glass ceiling. She simply glided through it.

 

[GamTrak]

Amazingly, I think that dropping Palin would actually be worse for the ticket ...

Sucks to be them ...

Actually that would be typical "Maverick" McCain! He is full of irrational ideas these days! He ended him campaign (supposidly because ads were running and folks were working) for no other reason then to grand stand.

Tossing Palin to the side because more and more of the GOP (male and female) is coming out with there true feelings about his pick is not above him.

He could replace her in a heartbeat and move on to the next stunt, therefore keeping the spotlight on his antics until the election is over. Then godforbid a terrist event happen and scare the public into voting for him because they know that he will drag the US into another mis-guided war that will bankrupt the US.

 

[midcan5]

Palin is silly, defending her takes an enormous leap of imagination. You have to wonder who selected and vetted her as a simple conversation would have shown why she almost flunked out of college. I guess maybe to an old fart like Johnnie she had sex appeal because intellectual appeal is an impossibility unless you are a dummy..hmm....

 

[midcan5]

I want my surgeon, pilot, and President to have at least 20 years experience. I'm not placing my life in the hands of "the new guy".

Obama's 20 years of experience

By Angie Drobnic Holan

Published on Friday, March 7th, 2008 at 12:31 p.m.

SUMMARY: Though often described as an upstart or newcomer, Barack Obama has a solid resume in public service work — 20 years' worth, in fact.

In a race where his opponent Sen. Hillary Clinton has touted "35 years of experience" over and over, Sen. Barack Obama has begun to cite his own experience of 20 years. At a debate in Cleveland, moderator Brian Williams asked Obama to respond to Clinton's charges that he was heavy on oratory and light on action. Obama said:



PolitiFact | Obama's 20 years of experience

 

[rayboyusmc]

I just watched Andrew Sullivan on last weeks Bill Maher show. He was the token conservative libertarian.

He said that Palin is a joke. It is amazing how the Ali's of this world still defend her. If she were a democrat, I would puke, and the right would attack her with all the arguments they are now ignoring.

What bullshit hypocrisy.

 

[AllieBaba]

Hmmm...the "token" alleged conservative on "maher" said nasty things about Palin.

Imagine that.

I like her, so I support her. Not that complicated. And I like her more every time I hear her speak, and more the more I learn about how she does things.

 

[JimH52]

Hmmm...the "token" alleged conservative on "maher" said nasty things about Palin.

Imagine that.

I like her, so I support her. Not that complicated. And I like her more every time I hear her speak, and more the more I learn about how she does things.

Do you have a sheperd or do you just walk around bouncing off of walls. I thought most of the GOP sheep were hiding form this "gimmick" pick by McCain?

 

[Caligirl]

I guess maybe to an old fart like Johnnie she had sex appeal ....

Ya I'd say so....

 

[Modbert]

Ya I'd say so....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qUVQDmLf7s]YouTube - McCain's Brain #1: Checking Out His VP[/ame]

And of course Episode 2:

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYKT4lbjmN4]YouTube - McCain's Brain #2: Cindy & The View[/ame]