There is no negative I can see from these carefully planned interviews. I don’t know whether “it’s all part of the plan,” but whether Schimdt is making minute by minute adjustments or not, doing the View was brilliant. Palin doing the Gibson interview was also brilliant. Schmidt is demonstrating to Rove some mad-skilz as the new kung-fu master of politics in the age of new media. Why?
Knowing full well the hypocrisy of the MSM, and the bitter hatred between the MSM and conservatives (as well as moderate independents), putting McCain and Palin into the Lion’s den serves two purposes: staying on message for those willing to listen and emphasizing the fact that the MSM is in the tank for Zero. Voter impression of media bias is now seen as a greater threat to the political process than the money-raising aspect—by a significant margin. Voter antipathy toward the MSM is worse than it is toward the do-nothing Congress. They can whine all they want how it’s not fair, and gee why don’t you just let us do our jobs, blah, blah, blah...but the reality is they are just stupid and that’s why they’re being played like a stradivarius by Schmidt and his public-relations ninjas.
Nothing Palin said in the interviews has been in any way controversial for the vast majority of the base, nor to 60-70% of independents (exactly how many McCain Palin needs). The other thing voter look for is grace under fire. She passes both tests magnificently; anyone who thinks the momentary confusion about the bogus “Bush Doctrine” or the gotcha questions will sink her is badly, badly fooled.
McCain at the View, for his part, merely allowed the old guard of feminism to show it’s true colors as the extinct dinosaur it has become. If there were ever a two-bit hack of a journalist who got to the top the old fashioned way (on her back) it is Barbara Walters, as she herself all but admitted. Sarah Palin was in the minds of most people watching that segment on the View and I doubt few people didn’t consciously or subconsciously think to themselves—”what a pathetic group of no-talent has-beens are these women compared to Sarah Palin; thank god he didn’t pick someone like that (i.e., thank god she ain’t Hillary.”
Well said! :)