Kathleen
Parker sure started storm today.
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.”…
Now, I took a lot of flack for calling Palin out at the start. But it’s not sexist to call a dim bulb a dim bulb when it’s true. I was also incensed
that McCain & Co. thought they could trade on Hillary’s bona fides and political prowess, betting they could get votes just
because Palin was a chick.
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Palin’s perfectly scripted convention speech
couldn’t hold her until November. Though McCain’s people should never have traipsed
her out to meet and greet and hug and kiss world leaders. It upped the bar on
a woman who simply cannot reach it. Slow and steady might have protected Palin
until she could have gotten up to speed, though it’s obvious she’s not equipped at present to get out of first gear. But with McCain’s campaign losing altitude,
no one could be bothered with the details that are now coming back to bite them.
Now the “Palin problem” has now gone wide.
Politico:
GOP concerned about Palin.
Tony Fabrizio, a GOP strategist, says Palin’s recent CBS appearance
isn’t disqualifying but is certainly alarming. “You can’t
continue to have interviews like that and not take on water.”“I have not been blown away by the interviews from her, but at the
same time I haven’t come away from them thinking she doesn’t know
s—t,” said Chris Lacivita, a GOP strategist. “But she ain’t
Dick Cheney, nor Joe Biden and definitely not Hillary Clinton.”
CNN
Political Ticker has also picked it up: “Palin should step down, conservative
commentator says.”
Step down? Not a chance. Besides, if you think things look bleak for McCain
today, without Palin the last couple of weeks McCain would be DOA.
That gives you an idea just how bad things are for the Republicans. If they actually need Sarah Palin, Republicans really are in far more trouble than they know. That said, this isn’t over. If McCain can throw two Hail Marys, expect a third, with a little help from Bush, no doubt.
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