Peggy Nooner is back? I had quite forgotten how much I despised that obnoxious little twit. That’s “twit”. With an “i”.
It friggin’ cracks me up to see Peggy Noonan et al telling us how Sarah Palin isn’t now and has never been qualified for national politics … after all of that was spelled out pretty fucking plainly by the opposition, oh, about 8 or 9 months ago despite her being propped up on every conservative pedastal they could find.
November 08 - The Left: Sarah Palin? You’ve got to be joking me. She’s in way over her head.
November 08 - The Right: Pshaw. Sarah Palin is just the mavericky maverick the country needs. She’ll be the bestest Veep, and God willing, the bestest president ever.
July 09 - The Left: What were you saying about Sarah Palin?
Julu 09 - The Right: Sarah Palin? You’ve got to be joking me. She’s in way over her head.
You are right. I will mention again that here is a thread I created for exactly the reason you mention. Not that I have refrained from addressing the gentleman in question here, for which I apologize.
So, time goes by and Sarah’s resignation continues to seem illogical and is clearly the decision of a woman with thin skin and poor judgment. Stick a fork in her, folks: she’s done.
A CBS poll shows that only 22% of Americans think that she has what it takes to be President, including only 33% of Republicans. That number in the low 20’s seems to keep popping up - I guess that’s the Republican base these days.
The Palin story seems to have lost it’s legs.
This is not good for the McCain campaign.
Sometimes I wake in a cold sweat because the electorate tends to have a disturbingly short memory. Give her a couple years writing editorials for the WSJ and the Washington Times (with the occasional appearance outside Fox Newspapers), lots of prepared face-time campaigning for candidates, and maybe a book or two.
Yes, people will remember that she abruptly resigned, but that was so long ago and she obviously had a lot of things to do. Her policy/political instincts don’t need to be so acute; all she has to do is keep tabs on Rush, Sean, or whoever is high in the ratings to know what slogans to repeat and what jeers to chant. In 2016, when the pendulum swings back towards the right, and assuming that the simplistic demagogy of Rush/Fox/the Next Generation holds sway, she could very well be a viable candidate.
It’s the crazification factor.
Yep, slow and stupid wins the race!
I’ve always hated watching people who are not fit for office but relentlessly ambitious and self-serving slowly but surely gain just enough traction that the MSM can no longer ridicule them openly, then parlay that into being taken seriously by a large enough, albeit pathetically stupid, segment of the population to get elected to formerly serious positions of power.
Who cares? What’s embarrassing for the Washington Post is that they granted her the patina of respectability by printing a piece she signed off on. And what’s embarrassing for both the WaPo and Palin is that the piece has a fundamental incoherence about it.
As Ezra Klein noted yesterday, her piece on the evils of cap-and-trade didn’t mention global warming at all; as he snarked, it was as if she’d written a piece about the evils of fire departments wielding water cannons, without mentioning that sometimes buildings catch fire, and the fire departments use the water cannons to put the fires out. (Somebody named Justin Fox picked up that idea and ran with it; Ezra excerpts a few paragraphs at the link. Worth clicking through just for that.)
Is the Washington Post trying to taint its own image to the point that Palin will soon be embarrassed at the association herself, or do I just read way to many of Brad deLong’s “Washington Post Crashed and Burned Watch” posts?
They’ve been exchanging friendly IFF with the wingnuts since before Iraq. That leaves little left to taint.
Conservative? And an artist?!!! I wish Reagan or Nixon were alive to correct that cockeyed notion.
Over the last five years, I dodged bullets and missiles in Iraq, while I presume you painted pictures.
Does that make me more ‘conservative’ than you?
What are the ‘consequences’ of you screwing up one of your paintings?
You know, I’m not actually Andrea Barber either. I wouldn’t read that much into a username.
He is one of the finest artists in our history, and perhaps the most prolific, in his chosen medium of “bullshit.”