Real Reason why McCain running for President in his own words
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-GfRmfb274#

Kathleen Parker’s been an–ahem–”faithful” voice for conservatives (and I’m thinking “real Conservatives” here, as opposed to neoconservatives) for how many years? You trust her up to the point that she tells you something you don’t want to hear?

BTW… keep in mind that there were probably issues raised by all sorts of people over at NRO. This editorial/commentary was written by Palin, and then submitted to the scrutiny of how many editors? Ultimately leaving a senior editor, an editor-in-chief, and perhaps even the publisher with opportunities to yank the ol’ “Emergency Brake” cord at any time, and stop the whole train from making it to the printers (or the web/online publishers).

But they didn’t, did they?

Kathleen Parker most likely didn’t just toss this onto the website at 2am, from the comfort of her bedroom, wearing a robe and slippers.

So, you wanna talk about “betrayal,” you’re talking about a lot of people at NRO.

Hey, I know! Write one of those nasty letters, where you say you’re canceling your subscription. Then, you can continue buying the magazine with cash at the Borders, or just reading it there.

Meanwhile…

cate, you might be onto something. Or, maybe Palin’s just been “playing dumb” the past 3 weeks, and we’ll see the real, super-intelligent Sarah Palin later this week.

Maybe.

She is becoming an embarrassment and prhaps a liability.

It’s quite plausible that the Chief Executive of the only US state that closely borders Russia might have actually had some sort of substantial dealings with their government. State governors of bordering state have occasion to deal with each quite often, for example.

Since it appears to have turned out that she really hasn’t had any such dealings, at least not that she seems able to recite, THEN its a crappy argument. Even as a partisan, I think you can afford to concede that.

a crappy argument with nothing but surface appeal.

Surface appeal? Whose surface does this appeal to? Cripes, it’s not even that.

But I’ll agree that I’ve seen a few some signs that she’s either Not Ready For Prime Time, or as this woman puts it, out of her league.

So far, in the places where she has seemed weak, it seems to be because she’s struggling to stick to the limited script that the campaign probably has insisted she stay with. For example, I don’t think it was her idea to point out that Alaska is next to Russia as a way of suggesting she has foreign policy experience. It’s a crappy argument unless there’s something behind it, and if she herself, when asked, can’t cite any specific instances of actually dealing with foreign folks, then there’s nothing to it, and it’s a crappy argument with nothing but surface appeal..

We are not idiots Mr. McCain. After viewing the Palin/Couric interviews I am cringing with embarrassment for all the women far better qualified that were ignored and for Sarah Palin being put into this position when she is clearly out-of-her-depth.

I still think it might have been nerves and her not being able to be herself. I could be wrong, but I do agree that she needs more time in the press instead of less. Every interview is so intensely scrutinized that it makes it look much worse than it is (although I am not sure you can get worse than the Couric interview).

Obama goes with a VP pick of an older, more moderate, more hawkish Democrat who has a crapload of foreign policy experience. This shows that Obama is pragmatic and desires to be an effective commander-in-chief.

McCain goes with a VP pick of a young, one-term governor of a state that has 10% the population of his own. Before that she served as mayor of a city slightly larger than New York City (well, the New York City of 1720 that is). This shows that McCain is more about playing political games to get elected than about being an effective leader.