William Kristol: The Establishment's Palin Panic

The Washington Post ^ | Monday, July 6, 2009; 6:03 PM

[BornToBeAmerican]

This is a good read. I am glad that Bill stuck to his guns. There is more to Sarah than most can grasp.

In case you are wondering. I seen all that Sarah was and could be, the moment she spoke when McCain introduced her as his running mate. I think a lot of people saw the same thing.

[pennboricua]

I think so — except that her own party’s establishment fears Palin, while the Democratic establishment wasn’t set against Obama.

holds true for many on this site.

[Red Steel]

But the panic among mainstream media commentators and the GOP establishment suggests real worry that if she does, she might pull off an upset.

In the minds of pea brains. The upset will only be the other way around.

[angkor]

Kristol is a bit too smarmy for my taste - and he is MOST CERTAINLY part of the reprehensible GOP establishment - but this is actually not a bad article and it seems to have genuine and honest sentiments.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Had to double check to make sure this was from Weakly Standard neo-lib editor Bill Kristol

Actually makes a lot of sense. A lot of GOP Liberals have their bowels in a tizzy every time Sarah is mentioned.

The GOP will pretty much disappear as a party if Sarah is not the 2012 GOP Presidential candidate...she is the only one with a good chance to beat Obama

[Aria]

I think the public who hates her does so because of the media who did the rats bidding when they were scared $hitless after her convention speech.

I think the establishment politico types hate her because, based on what she did in Alaska, she will destroy their “i’ll scratch your back, you scratch my back” dirty, scheming and insanely expensive to the taxpayer back room deals. How many of our public servants DON’T become millionaires once they get to D.C. And why are so many people with money interested in this job in the first place? More money.

She’s the real deal - that’s why they hate her.

[Tail Gunner John]

I've still got my SARAH! bumper sticker. Used a razor blade to cut the McCain out of McCain Palin at the bottom of the sticker.

She'll again get my $$$ and support.

[gunnyg]

“...Isn’t Palin about as well positioned for the 2012 GOP nomination as Obama was in 2005 for the 2008 Democratic one?...I think so — except that her own party’s establishment fears Palin...”
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Well fine...maybe it’s time to just get rid of those buggers too, and start anew!

[lewisglad]

Kristol was pro-Sarah from the very beginning.. :)

[DoughtyOne]

Bill, you don’t even know enough to realize you shouldn’t have a working relationship with the Washington Post.

Sit down. Shut up. Stay home on Saturday afternoons and Sunday mornings. And quit appearing on CNN and FoxNews.

Let someone with half a clue have a voice. Well never mind, that’s you. We’re going in a new direction...

One column out of ten just isn’t good enough anymore.

[SolidWood]

You can like or hate Kristol. But he has been supporting Sarah from day one. He’s one of the few beltway boys who aren’t evil.

[SolidWood]

Kristol was always sypathetic to Sarah.

[y6162]

Sarah = America’s Maggie Thatcher

[WilliamofCarmichael]

GOP establishment panic

As best I can remember, as the governor of Georgia Jimmy Carter met the movers and shakers of his Party. Carter had a kind of epiphany: These guys are clowns, drunks, and reprobates. Hell, I'm going to run for president! Carter decided.

As the VP candidate Gov. Palin met the movers and shakers of her Party.

Did Gov. Palin discover the same? I think that she may have.

I don't think the traditions of mainstream Republicans have changed much since Goldwater (1964) based upon the GOP establishment's attitude toward Gov. Palin.

The quote is from The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America, by Lee Edwards and has been modified to illustrate my point.

"In the words of Nelson Rockefeller's public relations head, Stuart Spencer, "We had have to destroy Barry Goldwater Sarah Palin as a member of the human race."

[Cboldt]

-- Kristol was always sypathetic to Sarah. --

He fancies himself her "kingmaker." It would be an absolute shocker if he followed the rest of the pundits on the conclusion that she's cooked her political goose by resigning.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"For psychological and sociological reasons too deep for me to grasp, a good chunk of elite America hates Sarah Palin and what they've decided she stands for."

Are they really too deep to grasp?

[Jackson57]

You’re right that there are many on this site that would rather lose with the candidate of their choice (ref: Romney) rather than get behind a candidate that can energize the Republican party like Sarah Palin has shown she can. There hasn’t been any criticism of Romney for running out on MA as governor to go campaign for President.

[TomGuy]

He didn't accomplish much in his four years in the Senate

Four years? It was more like 2 years, Bill.

He was in the Senate only 2 years and 20 days* when he announced his candidacy for the presidency. He had indicated earlier his intent, and that forced Clinton to announce 20 days into her 2nd term.

After both announced their candidacies, they, and John McCain and John Edwards and the other running Senators spent very little time in the Senate.

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* Elected to Senate November 2004, seated January 2005. Announced presidential run February 10, 2007.

[sam_paine]

Freud for Dummies?