Parker and Palin: This Week in Bus & Driver
As conservative columnists go, you won’t find one much more reliable than Kathleen Parker. During a successful career in punditry, Ms. Parker has never met a Democrat who didn’t have her immediately reaching for a stiff switch and glancing toward the woodshed. This background makes it all the more interesting that the recent interview between Sarah Palin and Katie Couric seems to have been a bridge too far. Check out just a few of her comments on Governor Palin from this last offering.
It was fun while it lasted.
Ms. 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.
My cringe reflex is exhausted.
If BS were currency, Ms. Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.
(To see how much of a change of heart this is, check out one of Parker’s earlier columns where she was simply gushing over the Alaska Governor.) So what solution does Kathleen Parker see to “the Palin problem” at this point? It’s under the bus you go, Governor.
Only Ms. Palin can save Mr. 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.
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This assessment from Kathleen Parker is noteworthy and republicans should take notice. I've always read her as a cool and thoughtful conservative, and as Jazz has observed, she has never been shy about taking democrats to task. Maybe her insights here can help some of the diehard Palin fans reconsider their aversion to getting a clue.
Palin bowing out and being replaced is about the only thing that could save McCain, but I doubt it's very likely. This campaign just seems bent on gambling it all recklessly and it would be very un-maverick-y to switch it up now.
It's sad because Palin actually seems like a decent governor for Alaska – a very green one who needed to incubate & get some grooming for at least another 4-8 years.
Now if McCain loses, she'll be thrown under the bus as the reason why, unless McCain finds a few more ways to royally mess things up himself.
I don't know what the statistics are on re-electability for governors whose bid at VP fail, but bowing out from being VP to spend time with family while you're still chief executive of a state probably would be the end of her political career. Actually it's pretty sexist to ask her to play the Mommy card — if she was a man, no one would be saying “sir, don't you want to spend more time with your newborn”? But it's about the only excuse that wouldn't immediately be mocked by all. Still I'd wager it'd be political suicide to back out now for any reason.
Oh well, just highlights the many & varied reasons why McCain's VP choice was an unnecessarily complicated and poor one.
How sexist of Parker to complain about her qualifications and performance under scrutiny. She is attacking all women by making this rash judgement and is yet another example of the liberal media trashing an honorable person who puts America first.
Hogwash.
Hi Jazz – I linked to this post of yours at a post I wrote about Parker's column but also Rod Dreher, another conservative at the DMN:
http://themoderatevoice.com/politics/white-hous…