God Bless Sarah Palin !

[Homo Aestheticus]

The following entry is from ACD's blog today:

http://www.soundsandfury.com/soundsandfury/2008/09/god-bless-sarah-palin.html

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This woman is just too much... 

[Gustav]

The following entry is from ACD's blog today:

http://www.soundsandfury.com/soundsandfury/2008/09/god-bless-sarah-palin.html

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This woman is just too much... 

i can't even bear to watch, she is a joke.

[Archaic Torso of Apollo]

I love the bit about Putin "rearing his head" as he zooms into American airspace. What the hell's he gonna do, bomb Alaska? 

[RebLem]

New joke going around:

QQQ.  What's the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull?
AAA.  A pit bull is smart enough to lie down when her water breaks.

[The new erato]

I love the bit about Putin "rearing his head" as he zooms into American airspace. What the hell's he gonna do, bomb Alaska? 

Anyway I think it's already too late, as she's moved south.

[adamdavid80]

I find her to be quite inspirational.



In voting for Obama.   

[Kullervo]

I wouldn't trust her to run an elementary school PTA.

[drogulus]

     Some conservative poobah is calling for her to withdraw on the grounds that she's clearly unqualified. I guess the accent is on "clearly", meaning some voters will notice. I think many have, and as the gaffes pile up, many more will be forced to abandon the press bias and liberal sexism theories for the "she's a total dingbat!" theory.

     Here it is from National Review Online:

     Palin Problem

     She's out of her league.

      By Kathleen Parker

If at one time women were considered heretical for swimming upstream against feminist orthodoxy, they now face condemnation for swimming downstream — away from Sarah Palin.

To express reservations about her qualifications to be vice president — and possibly president — is to risk being labeled anti-woman.

Or, as I am guilty of charging her early critics, supporting only a certain kind of woman.

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.

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.

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. 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."

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.

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.

— Kathleen Parker is a nationally syndicated columnist.

[karlhenning]

     Some conservative poobah is calling for her to withdraw on the grounds that she's clearly unqualified.

Yes, but she can't; McCain would lose just too much face.

[drogulus]

Yes, but she can't; McCain would lose just too much face.

     There are 3 choices, stay in and drag McCain with you, be fired by McCain (won't happen), or withdraw for the good of the party, and potentially the country. The last looks like the best of a bad set of options.

[karlhenning]

Not sure I agree, but you certainly have an argument there, Ernie.

[RebLem]

     There are 3 choices, stay in and drag McCain with you, be fired by McCain (won't happen), or withdraw for the good of the party, and potentially the country. The last looks like the best of a bad set of options.

The very best option, IMHO, is to simply let the better ticket, Obama/Biden, win.

[adamdavid80]

Similarly, the drudge report had an article yesterday saying that Biden is going to withdraw for an yet undisclosed health issue and Clinton will be brought in to be the running mate. 

I personally don't believe it, but if obama's number were to be begin to slip, I might.

[Catison]

I love reading this stuff.

[drogulus]

    I'm trying to picture a "McCain wins anyway" scenario, based on the recent numbers. It's hard to see one right now. It looks to me like the longer Palin is in the mix the more she will damage the ticket. Voters who formed one opinion of her based on prepared speeches are not liking the interviews, and they won't be able to chalk it all up to a biased press.

     

[flyingdutchman]

[ezodisy]

Does anyone know how long the VP debate in early Oct is supposed to last (60, 90 min?)? I think I will stay up late for that one...

[Wendell_E]

All four debates are supposed to be 90 minutes long.

[Homo Aestheticus]

Does anyone know how long the VP debate in early Oct is supposed to last (60, 90 min?)? I think I will stay up late for that one...

Yes, 90 minutes. And this one will cover both domestic and foreign policy.

[springrite]

All four debates are supposed to be 90 minutes long.

But it will seems like 120, unless you are watching it for the comedy, then it would seem to be less than an hour...