1. Sarah Palin's a big girl, swimming in the big pool. If she can't handle critics by now, she never will be ready.
2. Sarah Palin may have a first-class mind hidden in there somewhere but if so, it isn't immediately obvious. For example, she usually answers questions just fine in the first phrase or two but she always keeps going and going. She seems to just enjoy talking, long after the question was answered. In the world of politics, less is better: "it's better to have your opponent think you a fool than to open your mouth and prove it".
3. John McCain was a hero before the campaign, was a hero throughout the campaign, and remains a hero today. No pundit, right or left, can change that fact. Those people that try to smear John McCain are always those midgets on the periphery that never served a day in any organization where their lives were on the line. Always safer to be a critic behind some anonymous keyboard.
I came away from the campaign with a less-than-generous opinion of Sarah Palin's future as a conservative candidate. I listened to her speak.
The author could simply have titled the piece: “I’m retarded and now look at me pound on my keyboard for 5 minutes and see what comes out.”
-The McCain campaign than launches Palin onto the post-convention nationwide stage by putting her in front of an aggressive, pro-Obama, well established big biased media. Both Charlie Gibson and shortly thereafter Katie Couric make every possible attempt to embarrass and entrap Palin, a neophyte on the national political scene. McCain's people chose to put her there first rather than in front of their talk radio allies where she could have waded into the water instead of being tossed off the bridge. Not the smart or honorable thing to do.
Now we seem to have two camps running around here. Those who say she wasn't ready for prime time and those who say she was.
So now she's a neophyte, but ready, who needed to have some coddling interviews before being allowed to go before Gibson and Couric? Who in talk radio is an ally to McCain besides perhaps Hannity who is Mr. Republican talking points?
Those who questioned Governor Palin's readiness wondered how she would do on the Sunday morning gab fests. The response was she was ready. We found out in the Couric/Gibson interviews.
Only in hindsite this guy is saying she was a neophyte who needed protection.
“... John didn’t come to the rescue of Sarah Palin screeds”
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Mitt?
Is that you?
As a relatively newbie, your liberal skirt is showing by attacking Sarah. To question her conservative creditials and attempt a lame support of mclame is a dead giveaway. Yes, he WAS a hero but continues to be his liberal maveriak self is telling.
Give me a freaking break....I know you are kind of NEW here, but Sarah was REAL and REFRESHING and CONSERVATIVE....not some PHONY INCOMPETENT BOOB. What a snob.
There is no doubt that John McCain is a hero. And I have the greatest respect for the man, and I voted for him. That being said, he ran one of the worst campaigns I’ve ever seen. He dropped the ball on so many occasions and blew so many opportunities; however, much of that can be laid at the feet of his managers and advisers. Still, as the top of the ticket, he is ultimately responsible, and he will be the first to admit that and accept the blame. The man is a class act; he is also a terrible campaigner.
I voted for McCain.
Not because he was a hero, but because he represented the Republican Party. That was it, period.
When he received the nomination I KNEW that we had Bob Dole part two. It was pathetic.
As far as your view of Sarah Palin's intellect. Her speaking style and her delivery are that of a "normal" person thrust into the media with minimal training...... or somebody that has been in front of the camera and adopted that style of delivery for a purpose.
You're right, Sarah Palin is a big girl. I don't think I saw her whining about all the cr#p that the libs and their media enablers threw at her.
Most of her support came from decent people that saw another decent person trashed for no other reason than politics.
As far as future elected positions for Sarah Palin, she now has the Reagan model to fall back on. The Senate is a legislative not an executive position. She should avoid it at all cost and I believe she will. She's a "team player" and was never disloyal to Mr. McCain, who should now go back and be "mavericky" (whatever the heck that means) and suck up to the New York Time/WaPo when he trashes conservatives.
If you want RINO's puhleeze support Romney and Rick Perry, Crist and the lot of them. The only "leaders" that I've seen with a set are Palin and Jindal.
And by the way, was it NOT open primaries where the liberals and supposed independents selected lord McCain as the GOP nominee and then failed to show up in November. McCain has a history in the senate that does NOT qualify him for hero status, that is unless it is a liberal bestowing that credit.
Sarah Palin did more for McCain than his paid staff and she did it in spite of them.