Posted on 09/28/2008 3:09:26 AM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
The honeymoon is over for Sarah Palin.
After a third major TV interview during which her performance was uneven at best, even fellow Republicans are having trouble enthusiastically backing their vice presidential nominee.
The first-term Alaska governor had been a phenomenon, bringing delegates to their feet with her speech at the Republican National Convention early this month and helping John McCain draw the biggest crowds of his campaign afterward.
But voters are now apparently having doubts. A CNN/Opinion Research Corp. survey released yesterday found that while 47 percent of likely voters believed that Palin had the personality and leadership qualities a president should have, 49 percent said she didn't. Compare that with her Democratic counterpart Joe Biden: 55 percent said he had the necessary qualities, while only 39 percent said he did not. Both Barack Obama and John McCain had 62 percent of voters believing they have what it takes to be president.
And now some conservative commentators are skeptical or disillusioned. Syndicated columnist Kathleen Parker, who had praised McCain's surprise selection of Palin, called yesterday for her to step aside from the ticket. "As we've seen and heard more from John McCain's running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn't know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion," Parker wrote yesterday on National Review's website.
"It was fun while it lasted. Palin's recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League."
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Our fight against the media continues...........
hope you like president Obama, kathleen
CNN News fellow travelers can use. Propaganda at its finest.
Everyone knows Clinton is a lacky being controled by his penis.
Gov. Palin is losing her appeal. Right. And Obama won that debate the other night. Anyone who believes anything The Boston Globe prints, other than Jeff Jacoby’s occasional column, is nuts.
Neither he nor the messiah have ever had to do national interviews with people whose goal it was to demonize them.
And I assume CNN thinks Bin Biden is much better than Palin? Didn’t plugs just make his 1 trillion gaff and still adding? Also, didn’t he just announce that he (Biden) was not up to the task of Obama’s VP selection? Do I hear a thundering silence from CNN?
I found it EXTREMELY interesting that the only “piece” they could cite was Parker’s disingenuous rant. She, Parker, suddenly speaks for all of us? Not in any current, or future, century of which I know!
Kathleen Parker?
Jealous.
Jealous woman.
That is putting it nicely.
Here’s the article: http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=
I will never read anything from this STUPID, JUDAS, MORON again.
I would only use the boston globe to wipe my butt but the paper is already made out of sh*t so that wouldn’d work.
Yes, Kathleen, who are you really? These closet Obama supporters just cannot strike Sarah Palin low enough to suit themselves. How would any of us like to face vicious enemies on their turf and keep total composure? I seriously doubt many men new to a particular situation could do better. No one in my memory has endured the malicious, threatening, awful, bordering on criminal treatment that Sarah Palin has endured over these short few weeks from very powerful people. And, she had to be concerned, also, for her husband and children who were not off limits to these ghouls. To Sarah: Do not lose heart Sarah. Normal people in America can see your intelligence, your skills and your experience. God has endowed you with special traits not found in your adversaries and that is why they want you hidden from view. America needs your example so badly. Try to rest..Do not pay attention to their attempts to psychological weaken you before you go out to face the MSM. We, here, are not worried in the least should, God forbid, President McCain not be able to finish his term. All Presidents have many counselors and therein lies safety for all of them. You are strong, you are woman, and you are chosen. You will be one of the greatest Vice Presidents ever in the history of America. Go, Girl!..If you need help with the kids..Post here. We’ll help you!
The election will be decided by Americans in the voting booth, not by leftist propagandists.
The election will be decided by Americans in the voting booth, not by leftist propagandists.
the thing is, we KNOW Sarah and what she’s capable of. I’ve seen her debate and her state of the union. Details, details, details.
What we’re seeing is not the real Sarah but someone who is over-handled and over-scripted. But that’s the campaign’s fault, not Sarah’s. Let Sarah be Sarah!
just had to change my tagline
yeah the mccain campaign is treating her like a precious porcelain doll that can’t be removed from the display case.
She is a big Hillery Clinton fan and was very upset how she was treated by the MSM during the primaries and mad that she was'nt selected over Obama. I joked that she was coming out from the dark side after all these years.
She said that she is becoming a political junkie and now watches alot of the news networks. She went on to say that Fox News was fair and balanced and MSNBC is in the tank for Obama. She also mentioned that she likes Lou Dobbs on CNN. Being a liberal, she thinks CNN is leans left only a little.
I really think Sarah Palin has converted many Hillary Clinton supporters, like my sister into the McCain camp. We will find out on election day, because the polls internals are so slanted,thus giving Obama a psuedo advantage.
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