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A Conservative Republican Commentator On Palin - maco - 09-26-2008
Palin Problem
She’s out of her league.
By Kathleen Parker
If at one time women were considered heretical for swimming upstream against feminist orthodoxy, they now face condemnation for swimming downstream — away from Sarah Palin.
To express reservations about her qualifications to be vice president — and possibly president — is to risk being labeled anti-woman.
Or, as I am guilty of charging her early critics, supporting only a certain kind of woman.
Some of the passionately feminist critics of Palin who attacked her personally deserved some of the backlash they received. But circumstances have changed since Palin was introduced as just a hockey mom with lipstick — what a difference a financial crisis makes — and a more complicated picture has emerged.
As we’ve seen and heard more from John McCain’s running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion.
Yes, she recently met and turned several heads of state as the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York. She was gracious, charming and disarming. Men swooned. Pakistan’s president wanted to hug her. (Perhaps Osama bin Laden is dying to meet her?)
And, yes, she has common sense, something we value. And she’s had executive experience as a mayor and a governor, though of relatively small constituencies (about 6,000 and 680,000, respectively).
Finally, Palin’s narrative is fun, inspiring and all-American in that frontier way we seem to admire. When Palin first emerged as John McCain’s running mate, I confess I was delighted. She was the antithesis and nemesis of the hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood — a refreshing feminist of a different order who personified the modern successful working mother.
Palin didn’t make a mess cracking the glass ceiling. She simply glided through it.
It was fun while it lasted.
Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE=#more
Re: A Conservative Republican Commentator On Palin - maco - 09-26-2008
I didn't mean to post this reply.
Re: A Conservative Republican Commentator On Palin - mikeylikesit - 09-26-2008
If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.
If Palin were a man, we’d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she’s a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.
McCain's cynical attempt to change the direction of his campaign has done exactly that, but not in the way he had hoped.
Re: A Conservative Republican Commentator On Palin - michaelb - 09-26-2008
I think she has hit it dead on. Except I don't see Palin withdrawing. It sure feels like the republican ticket is imploding the last few days. 10 hours to the "debate" tonight and the pressure on McCain only builds.
Re: A Conservative Republican Commentator On Palin - Don Kiyoti - 09-26-2008
Ouch! She is, of course, correct.
Decocritter?
Re: A Conservative Republican Commentator On Palin - mikeylikesit - 09-26-2008
Decocritter has her mind made up. She didn't from the start and never will like Obama. Leaves her with McCain who she doesn't like either.
I think she likes Sarah.
Re: A Conservative Republican Commentator On Palin - $tevie - 09-26-2008
michaelb wrote:
I think she has hit it dead on. Except I don't see Palin withdrawing. It sure feels like the republican ticket is imploding the last few days. 10 hours to the "debate" tonight and the pressure on McCain only builds.
I think McCain has put himself into a position where these next 24 hours are very critical to his campaign. In trying to make this financial crisis all about him, he has stepped on a land mine and now he has to figure out how to step off it again without blowing up real good.
Re: A Conservative Republican Commentator On Palin - Greg the dogsitter - 09-26-2008
mikeylikesit wrote:
Decocritter has her mind made up. She didn't from the start and never will like Obama. Leaves her with McCain who she doesn't like either.
I think she likes Sarah.
I'd be curious to know why that is.
Re: A Conservative Republican Commentator On Palin - mikeylikesit - 09-26-2008
Why she likes Sarah? or why I said what I said?
Re: A Conservative Republican Commentator On Palin - Greg the dogsitter - 09-26-2008
The first thing. :-)