Palin urged to give up candidacy

The Star ^ | September 27, 2008 | Associated Press

[Raebie]

WASHINGTON

[marlon]

"Can anyone recall the last time the AP made a news story out of the opinion of one mid-tier columnist?"

Oh sure, haven't you read any of the AP articles that run daily on the hundreds of Web postings and comments by political pundints saying Biden will be replaced by Hillary due to his gaff-a-minute and his 180% difference with Obama over several key issues?

What's that you missed them, er hold on let me find them I'm sure I remember reading these stories under the AP byline.....

[Mjaye]

I made the mistake of perusing a People Magazine in a medical office. I was reading the movie/media reviews, and they announced the upcoming televised VP debate by saying that “the Tina Fey look alike” was going to be debating the “Senator from Delaware”. Good grief...no bias there.

[Colorado Doug]

Well, Kathleen Parker isn't alone. I've heard that Obama and Biden would like her to give up her candidacy too.

[Don Blake]

I read this mostly as Parker being in business for herself. The idea for a columnist is to be noticed and talked about. Well, an article like this will do it for her.

A while back we had Peggy Noonan do a post mortem on one of Dubya’s speeches and she gave him a hard time. That’s a similar dynamic, I think - now and then she has to go in business for herself and be talked about.

In Noonan’s case it worked, she had a media buzz for about a week. Parker will get a similar treatment.

[Chuzzlewit]

even if the premise is correct, and I don't believe that it is, it is too late. I agree with the general consensus of: let Sarah be Sarah...

I've seen the Alaskan debates for gov, in which she was quite good. Admittedly she knew her subject matter..

let the chips fall where they may.

[HwyChile]

“...Palin is definitely turning off some people who might otherwise be tempted to vote for McCain.”

No candidate will turn every one on. For every person she turns off on the “east coast”, she will pick up 10 everywhere else that would not have voted for McCain. She nets a lot more than she loses. I have been around politics a very long time, and I have not seen a candidate that has energized people like this since Reagan. She is a winner.

[Mad Dawgg]

"McCain/Palin will have 270 electorals by 600pm on election day.."

Very Possible but the MSM won't report that as fact till after Wednesday or Thursday.

I hope Drudge reports results this time.

[xDGx]

hi and welcome.

Just what questions about her, specifically, are you referring to?

[NRA2BFree]

Kathleen who? Never even heard of her, but I know who Sarah Palin is. Jealousy is a terrible thing. Obviously that skank is jealous of Sarah. Sarah Palin will be our next Vice President and Kathleen will still be a nobody!!

[fatima]

The press will never bury Palin.By the way-great first post/not.

[Brett66]

I’d rather dump Parker.....

[andy58-in-nh]

Palin has certainly energized the base (including me). No question about that. But more recently, her candidacy has seemed to put off moderates and independents, particularly on the East Coast.

Now, why might this be so? The media jihad against her has been brutal, but one "hit piece" in particular seems to have done a great deal of damage: Katie Couric's interview on CBS. Palin came off sounding confused and ill-prepared... but here, my friend, is why:

http://thepinkflamingo.blogharbor.com/blog/_archives/2008/9/26/3902581.html

Or, go Here.

I urge you to read this article. It points out how Palin's words were intentionally edited and presented out of context by CBS.

Surprised? I'm not. I'm only surprised that the McCain camp have not called them out yet.

[Ramcat]

My father, a life long conservative republican, doesn't think she is qualified and thinks she was a bad choice.

I respect your father's opinion but seriously, what's he going to do, vote for Obama because he doesn't like Palin?

There are many on this board that are not thrilled with McCain.

Our choices are not great but they are clear.

[pallis]

Palin has taken a defeated GOP, and put Republicans back in the fight. Not only has she turned McCain’s losing race around, she has given McCain coattails he never could have had on his own. Only a loser wouldn’t like her.

[SuziQ]

Yet another 'conservative' pundit willing to come down out of the hills and shoot the wounded!

Gov. Palin is doing just fine, and if we've only seen a few stumbles, that must mean she's doing pretty well, because with the way the interviews are cut, they would have included ALL of them!

[Ramcat]

I have heard similar rumblings this week from some East Coast residents. They seem to think that Sarah Palin is a dumb redneck - and these are not left-wing moonbats talking.

No, they're arrogant, elitists moonbats talking.

Closely related.

[SamAdams76]

I'm just curious to see why there aren't any threads in this forum calling for Joe Biden to be removed from the Obama ticket. Why is that?

Well maybe because "gaffe-a-day" Joe Biden is a gift to the Republican Party and so why would we want Obama to dump him?

So if Sarah Palin is really so awful as the Democrats are trying to tell us, then why would they want her dropped from the ticket? Wouldn't they, like us with Biden, refer to her instead as the "gift that keeps on giving?"

There is only one reason that the Democrats are trying to destroy Sarah and get her removed from the ticket and that is because they are deathly afraid of her and realize that she could very well put McCain over the top on November 4th and dash their dreams of an Obama presidency and socialism in America.

[andy58-in-nh]

Please see my follow-up comment in post 52, in which I discover something disturbing, but not surprising about CBS News. Briefly put, Couric and Company chopped up Palin's words like a kidnapper cutting out a ransom note. 

 

[kenth]

Who the heck is Kathleen Parker?

[so_real]

"conservative columnist" ? Sounds like a liberal columnist guilty of "projecting" on the Republican candidates. After all the stink about the "Candidate of Change" picking Biden for a VP (please!), there's bound to me a little projection of their faults onto the Republicans. I don't think the columnist is going to get much play on that tune.