By- Suzie-Q @ 12:05 PM MST
Kathleen Parker: After Interviews, Palin Should Bow Out
The Huffington Post | Rachel Weiner | September 26, 2008 09:11 AM
Conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, admitting that until recently she was a vocal supporter of Sarah Palin, now says the vice presidential nominee should bow out:
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.
Parker says her turnaround came from watching Palin in interview. Like other critics, she wasn’t impressed:
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.
No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I’ve been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I’ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted.Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there’s not much content there.
It’s so bad, Parker says, that Palin should quit the race:
Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.
Read the whole thing.
Yep, out of her league, and if she’s smart she will bow out. Could be that it isn’t her choice though, and she’ll be on Bu$h meds for maximum performance, not to mention whatever programing she will get.
McPain made his own bed, so he might as well just lay in it, and if she stays it will continue to be more evident just how bad the strategy, of the prepug’s, really is.
I only say this because I’m confident that McCane will lose by a large margin…G:
But “out of her league” is precisely what they wanted. They got a blank slate – a shallow pool –
They would have more depth of content with the Playback on a Tape Recorder.
She is SO out of touch and pathetic, it’s painful. She needs to be sent back to Alaska who apparently adores her – they can have her…but AFTER the election.
If the American people think she’s so terrific, they can have both of these bozos.
Lord help us all if McCain and this woman are chosen. Palin’s answers in interviews, if you even try to understand the gibberish, are appalling. I still don’t understand how she was elected governor in Alaska. But then again, look at what is going on with all the corruption from Alaska.
Palin is another puppet that will do & say whatever the NeoCon bosses want her to do.
Alaska obviously is a state that doesn’t care about itself or it’s reputation.
To elect someone so completely vapid would be an embarrassment to many other states. But evidently the people of Alaska are okay with having a complete nitwit at the helm.
And we have McInsane…lucky us…then again, both SQ and I have Foreign Policy Credentials with Mexico.
Hey Basheert:
Do you suppose we could get a job as Foreign Advisers to the next President because we have airplanes that fly over Arizona?
