Liberals love to point out that pundit Bill Kristol is nearly always wrong. They’d have to hand it to him on the Palin part of this one though. From the Sunday, June 29, 2008 edition of Fox News Sunday:
BILL KRISTOL: Republicans are much more open to strong women, and that’s why McCain’s going to put Sarah Palin, the governor of Alaska, on the ticket as vice president… She’s fantastic. You know, she was the point guard on the Alaska state championship high school basketball team in 1982. She can take Obama one on one on the court. It would be fantastic.
You might think that he’d be backing away a bit after Palin’s performance last week in New York. You’d be wrong. This is what Kristol said on FNS this morning:
Free Sarah Palin… Look, McCain picked her because she was a good governor, a good politician, a good communicator. Let her be a politician. Let her communicate. Put her on TV. Put her radio. Let her relax. Let her go into the debate and try to win the debate. They’ve surrounded her with former Bush White House aides, who if I might say in a way typical of the Bush White House got into a total defensive crouch… ooh, let’s not make mistakes… be very careful… I think she’s strong enough to overcome the very bad advice and very bad staff work that has surrounded her recently.