Panelist Kimberly Strassel (Princeton) panned Palin (Idaho). Thus she joins Krauthammer (Harvard), Frum (Dartmouth) and Will (Oxford and Princeton) in hammering Palin’s temerity in entertaining delusiuons that she too might sit in the thrones of power hitherto reserved to graduates of Ivy League institutions. Watch the vid if you like, but the condescension oozes from this conceited pseudo-intellectual pundit.
She said that Palin must talk issues/policy. That’s all she did in this interview and it’s typically all she ever does. I remember some time ago, she was asked (by Barbara Walters, I believe) what one good thing she could say about 0bama. The same question was posed to Liz Cheney by Chris Wallace. Till that answer/occasion, I had believed Cheney to be the sharper woman. Cheney responded, “He’s a good family man. He obviously loves his children, ....” This was Palin’s response: He’s a man of much charisma and great political gifts, and I would like to see him use those gifts to ..... (she inserted all his insufficiencies in the blank. It’s always all about policy to her. Kimberly Strassel’s either has never seen her on TV or just decided to repeat what she’s heard. Neither possibility lends her opinions any credence.
BINGO!
I watched the Panel segment just for comic relief. After Wallace acknowledged that Palin gave a boffo performance, and he could see her both as a candidate for President and could easily imagine her as President, Strassel blubbered something about having to be more policy oriented and less interaction with people (as she did last week) if she wants to win. Has Strassel got wax in her ears? Does she think we’re all deaf?
And where does Strassel come off giving advice to a woman like Palin who upends sitting governors in the GOP primary by 32 points, beats two term former governors in landslides in big Democrat years and draws crowds of 60-70,000 on how to get elected? What has this Strassel woman ever done? Talk about hubris. Someone should ask Strassel that on one of these panels. And watch her squirm.
Kimberly Strassal has gotta be a transsexual. She is sooooo homely I got my husband into the room to check her out. And she has the Seinfeldian “man hands.” That’s one rough-looking broad. No wonder she hates Sarah!