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Krauthammer: Palin "Not Schooled" In Policy; Doesn't Know She Needs It
Real Clear Politics ^ | June 1, 2011 | Charles Krauthammer

Posted on 06/01/2011 9:43:57 AM PDT by Rennes Templar

FOX News contributor Charles Krauthammer gives his take on what a "Washington establishment elitist" thinks of a potential Sarah Palin run for the presidency. In self-deprecating fashion, Krauthammer says he wears Palin's "hoity-toity" comment as a badge of honor.

"She is very smart and adept. Great political instincts and is a star. The problem with her, I think, is that she is not schooled. I don't mean she didn't go to the right schools. I mean when you get into policy, beyond instincts -- I like her political instincts, I like her political overall view of the world -- but when it comes to policy, she had two-and-a-half years to school herself and she hasn't and that's a problem," Charles Krauthammer told Bill O'Reilly on Tuesday. "It's not only the lack of schooling, it's the lack of effort to school herself and the lack of insight to see that she needs it."

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To: itsahoot
Children were not mentioned in that paragraph but neither were elephants or zebras, so how do you know she wasn’t referring to the latter?

Please forgive me for giving you the opportunity to behave like an adult. It was unfair of me to set you up for failure.

301 posted on 06/01/2011 3:03:07 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: itsahoot
Name one president that entered office with foreign policy credentials, come on there should be plenty if them, since it seems to be a requirement.

FDR. Eisenhower. Nixon. LBJ.

Need we continue?

302 posted on 06/01/2011 3:04:18 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: itsahoot

Way to miss my point.

Why do you think I mentioned Katie Kouric in my post? Do
you really think the media will treat Sarah Palin or Rick Perry the same way they treated Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton?


303 posted on 06/01/2011 3:05:24 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (Anyone who says we need illegals to do the jobs Americans won't do has never watched "Dirty Jobs.")
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To: itsahoot
Name one president that entered office with foreign policy credentials,

i'm thinking George Herbert Walker Bush...

304 posted on 06/01/2011 3:10:17 PM PDT by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: truthkeeper

If Obama’s education is what it means to be “schooled” I’ll take a pile of dirt over him to be president. Krauthamer is clueless. Palin is my choice!


305 posted on 06/01/2011 3:18:50 PM PDT by cblue55 (Envisioning when all that is left is the right.)
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Why don't you take a deep breath, Chuck, exhale, eat a salad, and relax.
306 posted on 06/01/2011 3:23:32 PM PDT by StAnDeliver
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...

Thanks Rennes Templar. Sure is odd how well thought of he is by the libtard media shills. Gosh, I wonder why.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Krauthammer

[snip] In 1978, Krauthammer quit medical practice to direct planning in psychiatric research for the Jimmy Carter administration, and began contributing to The New Republic magazine. During the presidential campaign of 1980, Krauthammer served as a speech writer to Vice President Walter Mondale. In January 1981, Krauthammer began his journalistic career, joining The New Republic as a writer and editor. His New Republic writings won the 1984 “National Magazine Award for Essays and Criticism.” In 1983, he began writing essays for Time magazine. In 1985, he began a weekly column for the Washington Post for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. [/snip]


307 posted on 06/01/2011 3:25:54 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (Thanks Cincinna for this link -- http://www.friendsofitamar.org)
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To: tarheelswamprat; brytlea
It bypasses the official state organs of communication and is every bit as much a threat to their control as were the personal printing presses and mimeographs of old. BTW, the cold war was just one campaign - the war between the ideas of individual freedom versus the tyranny of the elites is eternal.

I'm reading Andrew Breitbart's new book, "Righteous Indignation," and he describes how we got here, starting with the Drudge Report, and Arianna Huffington before she flaked out. I think now, a little over ten years past where I've reached in the book, we really are seeing the last gasp of the state-owned media's real power.

308 posted on 06/01/2011 3:30:43 PM PDT by Tax-chick (Oh most loving Father, preserve us from faithless fears and worldly anxieties.)
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To: WestSylvanian

IMHO...

Well, I don’t think she’s made any speeches at various economic or foreign policy institutions, etc. Nothing in depth. Through serious, in-depth papers and speeches that a future candidate can make known how their philosophy and vision would shape their future Presidency. If only her books had instead been in-depth policy discussion papers, i.e., analysis of the healthcare system, the middle east, china, etc. If those sorts of papers had been written, she’d be well on her way. They could have been combined and published in series of books, “The Palin Papers”. She could have had a panel of people discussing things with her, bringing her up to speed on the issues and use all that material to construct the papers which would have been her take.

She would have disappeared from the media spotlight for all the work, but about now the effort would have started paying off, as she would have turned herself into a recognized formidable mind on the world stage.

Instead, it looks like the Repub machine is not buying what she’s selling, so she’s attempting to make a run on her own, but I don’t think she’s winning many NEW converts, just the same people who have supported her all along.

I just hope they don’t get down in the dumps if things cool off. I hope they realize that it’s not about Sarah, it’s about them - their lives - and America. We need a conservative candidate, not any particular conservative candidate. I happen to favor Cain at this point, but if not him - then someone else has to get in there ! I will not sit and cry about it all would have been better if Cain was elected, etc., I need to keep going no matter who’s elected. Actually, I DO NOT want to prop up my candidate at all by showering praise, and going on and on about how they’re just the picture of perfect Americana, etc. I know that the Repub candidate is going to have to survive on their own; the candidate’s supporters do not run the press conference.


309 posted on 06/01/2011 3:37:27 PM PDT by PieterCasparzen (Huguenot)
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To: Rennes Templar

How about an example, Mr. K? And how do you know what she does and doesn’t know?


310 posted on 06/01/2011 3:40:30 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: r9etb

You know, perhaps you should remember that great president FDR, the one that bombed factories full of slave labor, you know those pesky Jews and Poles, I mean they were hardly being missed anyway.

This is pretty smarmy, even for you.


311 posted on 06/01/2011 3:43:14 PM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Dimmitude, get used to it.)
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To: Rennes Templar

I think she’s playing rope-a-dope on policy for the time being. If she decides to run, at the right time, she will explode with policy statements.

But then, I not a smart as CK. ;-)


312 posted on 06/01/2011 3:45:03 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: Tax-chick

Exactly. When someone is principled, they can apply said principles to a situation without having to be an expert in the particulars.


313 posted on 06/01/2011 3:46:09 PM PDT by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: Mr. Mojo

I will always remember that, Mr. Mojo. CK is a pompous ass.


314 posted on 06/01/2011 3:52:12 PM PDT by savedbygrace (But God.)
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To: r9etb

Ok, you first. Since you haven’t made a valid one yet.

Use a lot of big words, it confuses the rednecks that support Palin.


315 posted on 06/01/2011 3:56:33 PM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Dimmitude, get used to it.)
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To: phillyfanatic

If the indies are sucker enough to vote for Obama again, against any living republican, then what on earth does it matter, the republic is doomed.


316 posted on 06/01/2011 4:00:17 PM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Dimmitude, get used to it.)
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To: USARightSide

He acted like someone with Stockholm syndrome, in his post war dealings with Nam.


317 posted on 06/01/2011 4:03:41 PM PDT by itsahoot (We make jokes, they make progress. Dimmitude, get used to it.)
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To: SunkenCiv
"In 1983, he began writing essays for Time magazine. In 1985, he began a weekly column for the Washington Post for which he won the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for commentary. [/snip]"

Who decided this?? The libs that love dumping on Conservatives??

Pretty much like Bozo winning the Nobel Peace Prize!

318 posted on 06/01/2011 4:12:44 PM PDT by LADY J ( Change your thoughts and you change your world.. - Norman Vincent Peale))
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To: ASA Vet

Thanks.


319 posted on 06/01/2011 4:17:51 PM PDT by TheOldLady
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To: faucetman; MBB1984; oldleft

I’m going to have to agree with you MBB1984. Faucetman responded with comments that reflect my thoughts on the subject quite well. Thank you Faucetman.

After the 2008 election, when it became obvious folks where going to push Palin to be our nominee in 2012, I suggested she need to brush up on international dynamics. That’s basically what Krauthammer was suggesting, Palin hasn’t seemed to have done that. Your comments about Greta’s and her conversation from the other night ring true for me.

I’m not particularly pleased with the terms Krauthammer used here either. I share some of the Palinista objections to the word ‘policy’, because I have seen too much bad policy in the last 16 years.

That’s why I would rather reference international dynamics. Regional dynamics are very important, if we’re to avoid pitfalls. Even a well meaning person with great instincts can really screw things up, if they don’t understand regional dynamics.

For example (and this is not a reflection of Palin), it sounds nice to think of a Palestinian state living in peace with Israel. Treating this goal blindly as a lofty one with two sides pushing for the same thing, could be fatal for Israel. There were times under Bush, when I honestly didn’t think he understood clue one with regard to the dynamics of the region.

Israel would get attacked, and respond. The next thing you’d know, he would admonish Israel to keep the response to a minimum, or admonish it to hold off altogether as if a peace agreement were just around the corner and might be jeopardized. He was clueless. Rice and Powell seemed to be also, all too often.

Of course Clinton and his walks with Arafat revealed a cavern of ignorance that knew no bounds too.


320 posted on 06/01/2011 4:18:21 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Tell me you haven't asked yourself what mistake Obama made, that wound up causing Laden's death?)
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