Kathleen Parker has come right out and suggested Palin should bow out of the race as she is “out of her league”.
From Kathleen Parker
“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…..If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.”
Other conservative columnists (see below) feel she lacks the experience to be President, especially given John McCain’s age (72) and cancer history. (The average life expectancy for a white male in the U.S. is 76, and that includes all of the people who haven’t already had a bout with cancer.)
From David Brooks -
“”Sarah Palin has many virtues,” Brooks wrote in a recent column. “If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she’d be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness.”
John McCain’s opponent is by far the least experienced person to receive a presidential nomination in the 75 years since the federal government became a comprehensively intrusive regulatory state and modern weaponry annihilated the protection the nation derived from time and distance. Which is why McCain’s case for his candidacy could, until last Friday, be distilled into two words: Experience matters.”
From David Frum
Ms. Palin’s experience in government makes Barack Obama look like George C. Marshall. She served two terms on the city council of Wasilla, Alaska, population 9,000. She served two terms as mayor. In November, 2006, she was elected governor of the state, a job she has held for a little more than 18 months. She has zero foreign policy experience, and no record on national security issues.
All this would matter less, but for this fact: The day that John McCain announced his selection of Sarah Palin was his birthday. His 72nd birthday.
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October 2, 2008 at 2:34 am
She scares the heck out of me. I am Democrat and I will vote for Obama and if I was a Republican I would vote for Obama. I having been keeping up this go round and McCain chose her I was concerned about who he would pick now I am even more concerned being that if all my fellow Republican Americans are a heartbeat away from putting our country in a rutt for real, that scares the crap out of me. I am a woman. I would not want to be president nor vice and guess what if I was asked knowing I could not handle the job I would not take it. She is lethal to this country. America must be the laughing stock of the world right now. Listening to her interviews I shake my head in disbelief. I like to hear a “GOOD” interview and I have not heard one from her until this day. Be smart Americans.
November 15, 2008 at 10:31 pm
Oh, boy, Ms. Palin has some catchin’ up to do. She’ll be a great pick for all of us in 2012, cause she’s a moose huntin’ machine and a pittbull. All she needs to do is wave across the water to Medvedev or maybe have lunch with him on the boat and tell him not to pick a fight with Israel.
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