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If everyone would perhaps consider reading the article AND where the link leads to (try clicking on the words 'revealing glimpse' in the article at the Atlantic), they would discover that what Sullivan is going on about is Quin Hillyer's article "The Problem with Palin" over at the *American Spectator*, which actually raises legitimate questions regarding Sarah Palin's experience and readiness to serve as President of the United States.

Forget Sullivan and his rhetoric, go read Hillyer's article which Sullivan has linked to:

http://spectator.org/archives/2010/04/19/the-problem-with-palin/print

[denydenydeny]

The election of Obama as president makes such articles about the “legitimate questions about Palin’s readiness” look hollow. I don’t think she can win, but she is nevertheless far more qualified than the current president.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

‘Palin “had made the largest veto totals in the state’s history.” Well, context is important. An observer parachuting into a state without knowing all the local factors can think something is utterly inexplicable which in truth is easily defensible.’

I love her more!

Spending was up. What was the deficit?

‘she kept the federal money and used part of it for a “road to nowhere” that leads to where the bridge was meant to begin.’

Oh my, a poorly planned road?

(To nitpick ...) I’m “shocked” by such honesty.

Short career speil, small town crack — no ‘nitpick’ alert there.

” ... the town’s long-term debt reportedly jumped from $1 million to $25 million. ...”

Now there’s a way to make a point. Buried under pettiness.

Smear as “quitter”, partly because she didn’t suck up to college professors enough.

CPAC getting catty with her? I’ve already begun to wonder about CPAC.

” ...her thin-skinned touchiness begins ...”

Good grief! Thin skinned? She’s been through HELL!!!! HOW DARE that writer accuse her of being thin skinned!

“(Palin never overcame such a counter-attack.)” Quite a reach to be certain of that.

” ... that which is done with good intentions in the name of ethics can hobble good government rather than promote it. That appears to have happened in Alaska with Palin ...”
... [snip] ... “Yet it doesn’t seem to occur to her that this imbalance was the eminently predictable result of her own reforms.”

Yeah, so Palin was blindsided by just how thuggish leftwing lawyers can be when a Chicago thug airdrops them. She should have realized what few Americans realized when Obama tricked people into voting for him? That’s a huge over-reach. Petty twist.

I’m willing to forgive a poor road mistake, and I’m certainly willing to forgive a little naivitee about leftist lawyer-thugs. Live and learn. Now she knows better than most.

She sold the governor’s jet on ebay. That tells me a LOT about her character on fiscal responsibility. The only legitimate gripe is the raised deficit of her town.

OK, I stopped reading after that.