PALE AT THOUGHT OF PALIN (Carville vs. Rove Debate in NYC)

New York Post ^ | October 20, 2008

[ZULU]

REPUBLICANS?? In New York???

I guess there might be one or two or so, but this stretches the imagination.

My guess is they are a bunch of political wannabes like Bloomberg who are willing to change their labels - but not their philosophies - for another crack at office.

[A Strict Constructionist]

“a bunch of liberals have commandeered the party!”

A lot of them helped bring us the WS crisis, they are afraid she wouldn’t bail them out and they might loose their Park Avenue addresses.

[SoConPubbie]

As if this means anything.

None of those people in the audience were conservatives.

These are the people who thought it was a great idea for Rudy to be president.

Not a wise soul in the bunch except the one lone conservative left in NY.

[AmericanGirlRising]

My NYC friends are living under the strongest propaganda bubble I’ve ever witnessed. It’s stronger there than my friends in LA and SF report.

[caveat emptor]

That's not Karl Rove on the left.

[kayworthy]

We know where Sarah will be at 3:00 AM-—the all-important job of feeding little Trig. And if she needs to tackle other things like opening the nuclear football, well, she can do that too.

[paul544]

No, but it may be on Nov 5th.

[MrB]

I saw some chick, probably thought she was cool, had a white tshirt with a silhouette of McCain with the word “OLD” under it.

I wonder how a shirt with 0bama on it with the word “BLACK” under it would go over.

I’ve noticed that any form of bigotry is allowed as long as the target is a conservative/republican.

[chickadee]

You are sadly correct about “anything goes” if it’s a conservative Repub. Those filthy t-shirts about Sarah Palin were beyond the pale.

Imagine 4 years of the Dem psychos in charge of DC. They have no sense of when they are going over the line and the media covers for them.

[LibLieSlayer]

Good one!

LLS

[GipperGal]

She needs to do a major Sunday news show like Meet the Press. She now does more press conferences that the other three candidates. She has to completely repair the damage done by Couric, and the only way to do that is to face down another even bigger journalist. And she has to be stellar.

They keep talking about game changers. That would be it.

[rmlew]

Some of us think that Palin is neither sufficiently conservative, nor experienced. And given the age of her children, we think that she should be mothering them and not be in the office.
So stop calling us liberal for holding conservative beliefes over partisanship.

[caveat emptor]

Nope. No trash cans on head. Rove may be wrong on this one, but he doesn't play the fool.

[nickcarraway]

Who is experienced? Unfortunately, there are only four people on the tickets, and Palin is the only one who has experience.

[kabar]

When the moderator asked the 200 Republicans in the room how many were comfortable with Palin becoming president if something were to happen to John McCain

I wonder what the response would have been if the moderator asked the Reps in the room how comfortable they would be with Obama being the President versus Palin.

[rmlew]

2 years as governor isn't experience.
McCain and Biden have expereince, but seem to lack wisdom. As for Obama, I rather not curse in public.

[nickcarraway]

McCain and Biden have expereince

What experience do they have? They've been in the Senate for 20+ and 30+ years? The U.S has always considered Senate to be poor (or worse) material for presidency.

T. Roosevelt and G Cleveland were two term presidents with two years as governor.

[rmlew]

TR had been police commissioner, and Assistant Secretary of the Navy before running for governor. He had experience in international affairs and the national government. Palin, not so much.
Cleveland did have less experience than Palin. the same is true for Woodrow Wilson.

[nickcarraway]

Police comissioner or Asst. Sec. of the Navy is okay. But taking on your own party and winning is invaluable. Sarah Palin's political career was DOA in 2003. Someone, she came back and beat the machine.

Why do you think Powell dislikes here? Last week he testified that Sen. Porkbarrel Stevens was as clean as driven snow. Of course, he dislikes the antidote to GOP corruption in Alaska.