Conservative News Source NRO is calling for Palin's head.

shuamort · 09-26-08, 03:01 PM

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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. Here’s but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: “Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we’re talking about today. And that’s something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.”

When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obama’s numbers, Palin blustered wordily: “I’m not looking at poll numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who’s more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who’s actually done it?”

If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.

Follow the link at the top for the rest of the article.

Since this is coming from a conservative news source, is the bias less or more credible when it comes to the piece?

shuamort · 09-26-08, 03:02 PM

I wanted to add the final words:

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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.

Do it for your country.

Wow.

DeeJayH · 09-26-08, 03:06 PM

that was rather scathing
does this mean Obama should bow out too

EgoffTib · 09-26-08, 03:18 PM

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Originally Posted by DeeJayH

that was rather scathing
does this mean Obama should bow out too

No it means Palin should stop wasting everyone's time

DeeJayH · 09-26-08, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by EgoffTib

No it means Palin should stop wasting everyone's time

same could be said of Obama, and has been, by many as well

MrVicchio · 09-26-08, 04:06 PM

Kathleen Parker is one of the worst NRO contributers. She's always ready to panic IMHO and always condescending in her views. I don't much ever care for her... "opinion". And NRO is one of my favorite sites.

MrVicchio · 09-26-08, 04:15 PM

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My guess — based on nothing but hope for a change — is that Sarah Palin just needs some freedom. I don’t know who is holding her back but if John McCain wants to win this thing it had better not be him and his staff. When I watch these interviews, I see a woman who looks like she’s stayed up all night studying and is trying to remember the jurisprudential chronology of privacy vis-a-vis reproduction, the war on terror, and public figures (add 12 more things, described in the most complicated way possible, to the list to be more accurate). She looks like a woman who’s been cramming talking points and great Matt Scully lines and Mark Salter-McCain war stories and Steve Schmidt marching orders into her head since that first plane ride from Alaska. She looks like a woman who has ceased being the confident, successful executive who got herself elected governor of Alaska without the full force of her party behind her and managed to have an approval rating of which most can’t even dream.

This seems wholly unnecessary. People love Sarah Palin when they see her. When she’s firing at full force, she comes off as authentic, self-possessed, and ready for a fight. If that is Sarah Palin, that’s the Sarah Palin who should be talking to everyone she can. That’s the Sarah Palin who should call up Rush Limbaugh. That’s the Sarah Palin who should go on The View. Heck, I thought she should have dropped in on Keith Olbermann while she was in the Big Apple and charm his official Bush-Derangement-Syndrome socks off or be cheered for trying.

Conservatives are inclined to love Palin. Hard-working, all-American family men and women who don’t have their head full of left-wing theories about Republicans are frequently warm to her — if not outright excited. Even the Left knows the attraction or they wouldn’t be going so insane over her.

http://article.nationalreview.com/?q...FmMjA5Nzk3MWM=

I agree with THIS NRO contributor.

shuamort · 09-26-08, 04:17 PM

So, right now, Palin is not allowed to speak for herself or make herself look intelligent and educated on these topics? That's an interesting viewpoint.

MrVicchio · 09-26-08, 04:39 PM

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Originally Posted by shuamort

So, right now, Palin is not allowed to speak for herself or make herself look intelligent and educated on these topics? That's an interesting viewpoint.

Either she's deer in the headlights freezing during the questions out of fear, or she's being over handled by the McCain people on what to say to questions and she's not comfortable repeating lines from others.

Either way, we'll know at the debate with Biden. If she sounds like she did in that couric debate... McCain's toast, and Obama sails in. If she comes out like she did at the RNC convention and nails the debate then these interviews won't matter one whit.

Declaring she should step down now is just chicken little panicking.

EgoffTib · 09-26-08, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by MrVicchio

Either she's deer in the headlights freezing during the questions out of fear, or she's being over handled by the McCain people on what to say to questions and she's not comfortable repeating lines from others.

Either way, we'll know at the debate with Biden. If she sounds like she did in that couric debate... McCain's toast, and Obama sails in. If she comes out like she did at the RNC convention and nails the debate then these interviews won't matter one whit.

Declaring she should step down now is just chicken little panicking.

At the RNC she used big words and fluff... how is that going to help her when she debates an informed opponent?