How starnge it is to watch the Palin pick unravel so rapidly from a imaginative, sure handed move on Mccain's part to a failed ploy recognized as such by all of the left and now a noticable segment of conservtism's intellectual millieu. It's seems the tipping point was the moment Palin opoened her mouth without a cue card to guide her.
I senced during the convention, that the flaughting over Palin was a overblow, nervous, prouncement. Unsupringly to me, slowly and quitely but surely, many of the right's smartest intellectual commentators, have begun to confess that they too cringe everyother time Palin opens her mouth. But also for many conservtives who felt burned by Bush, the fact that Palin is now being taught about foriegn affairs by adivers the same exact way Bush was tutered by his daddys friends 8 years ago raises serious alarms.
The defection was heralded and led first by the dolce and gabana of conservtism David Frum and David Brooks, probably the two most respected conservtive writers today, who exspressed deep skeptism early on, but made truely stubstancial by Kathleen Parker and Kathyrn Jean Lopez of Nation Review who, with rembarcavle ballzyness proposed in columns this week that Palin be dropped. I am very sympathetic these two and find these defections honorable in the upmost, almost.....award worthy. Critizing your party in these partisan days should be recognized thoroughly.
National Review being the most esteemed and widely read conservative publication on the planet, the news of the National Review lady's calling for Palin to be dumped, has made major headway in the MSM and even more so in the blogsphere. It was my dad at dinner who told me actually. So it must be everywhere. It's seem embarrsingly obvious to mention but: This spells ruin for Mccain ( and his already lofty presidential hopes).
True to the times, Mccain took a risk and lost his shirt. He forgot, it seems, 1. that the media largley has exzempted him, from the abuse and vitrol they dish out to all other conservative polticos and 2. that she would have to talk off stage.
When Palin did the convention and gave a speech that was just right, it looked like a brillant pick. Only Frum and Brooks had the immediate forsight then to see, having themselves been burned by Bush, that Palin would have to face the press and that it would be downhill from then on. But also they like me, resented the Palin pick for her folsky banalties played into a damaging sterotype the GOP has unfairly acquired as a philostine, anti intellectual party.
But even if Palin where a talker, who could hold up her own against Katie Courac of all people, the pick had glaring flaws.
1. Palin nearly undermined Mccain's entire exsperience attack on Obama. Contrasting Palin to Biden and Obama was inescapable for lefties and righties and in that transcation, Obama came out by contrast looking tested and wise and considerably less risky.
2. The publicity over Palin's newly born downsydrome child raises obvious questions over her abilty her abilty to serve at the highest level while being a babies mother, evoking the disturbing image in some, of Palin having to step outside a national security meeting to breast feed!
3. Palin was such a obvious and bad bid for Hillary supporters. Somehow Mccain didn;t realize that Hillary supporters would venomsly hate Palin for a number of reasons. It would seem John didn't get the memo about how Hillary supporters would be infuraited if another women was picked instead of her.
The Mccain camp must have known how much liberals would hate, mock and belittle Palin. They didn't realize it would seem, that conservtives are not isolated from America's firecly liberal pop culture. They didn't realize special SNL skits about their VP, and even a trainwreck like Linsney Lohan bashing their VP would have a negative effect upon those they excepted to be Palin's fiercest cultural defenders..
It seemed for a little while that the media was doing Mccain a favor by igniting a full on culture war against Palin and her red state ilk. But that notion rested on a assumption aswell that Palin could at least hold her own and wouldn't embarass herself. As soon as it became apparent the Gibson interview was not just a fluke performance by Palin, the vicious attacks on her gained credence and the avalanche on her has ensued.
The whole breast feeding hockey mom who would just happen to be your Vice President schtick, was bizarre and unappealing on various levels and not just for liberals but to many conservatives aswell.
The only possible thing that can save Mccain's campaign and save Palin from going down as the most peculiarly stupid VP pick in history is a suprisingly formidable performance on THursday with Biden in the VP debate. Though i like most, see little chance of that.
The bottomline is rather simple. The Mccain camp shouldn't have picked a Vp as if they have been asleep for the last 5 years. They should have learned how tired Americans are of Bush's supposed idocy and his fanstintsic inarticulatness. To pick Sara Palin evokes much of that same embrssment and anger is to simply just remind millions of Americans of how much they are embarrsed to have BUsh a president and how much they don't want another supposed intellectual midget in office.
It is true that BUsh wasn't as dumb as people thought he was and that he genuinly does have a deslexia type problem with assemblying sentences but i, like most americans am very tired of having to talk once again of the people that run our goverment as if there our 2nd grade students, that theyre smart but they just don't show it.
Somewhere, sometime soon, i think a southerner will sum the Palin pick up best, "They done fucked up".
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