The man who predicted Palin would be our VP nearly one year ago had some remarks about her before tonight's debate in The Baltimore Sun.
"If Palin does well, her performance will go a long way to rehabilitating her image," said John J. Pitney Jr., a Claremont McKenna College political scientist. . . .Let's assume that Governor Palin does not succeed tomorrow at throwing off the frankly sexist attacks on her character, parenthood, and governorship. Let's assume the worst.
"The combination of the less-than-successful interviews, along with Saturday Night Live parodies, have been not been good for her image," said Pitney, a one-time director of the Republican National Committee's research department.
Every cloud has a silver lining, or as Reagan once said, there's got to be a pony in there somewhere. If Governor Palin and Senator McCain are unsuccessful at winning the election, the good news is that at least McCain did not take one of party's strong new leaders through the mud.
Future generations may be grateful that McCain did not sully the political futures of Governors Jindal, Romney, Sanford, Pawently, or Daniels, all of whom are fit to lead this nation as commander-in-chief come 2012.
And as you can predict, I'll be pointing out that the mastermind of them all, Karl Rove, once said that Governor Romney would make the best VP choice. As the financial markets are hurting and the two states the GOP needs to keep -- Nevada and Colorado -- are chock full of Mormons, some may wonder why we gave one of Massachusetts's best governors such a hard time. The better angels of our nature didn't win out, giving way as they often do the fickle winds of political expediency, but something tells me that Romney is the new Ronald Reagan post-1976.
You know, it was not too long ago that another great political outsider also came from the Bay State as he shook political assumptions to their very core, while inspiring a generation of new economic thinkers. But he wasn't much of a speech giver, so he'd be unelectable nowadays. Ah, but to hope for statesmen in a time when the sound bite reduces them to sock puppets.
2 comments:
Lol, well by normal standards, Palin is not doing well at all in this debate. Having taken debate class, it was easy to tell that she was not doing anything besides rehearsing straight-up talking points without reference to anything that wasn't vague. She wouldn't even answer a great deal of questions. Please try not to spin that as a victory for her.
This was not a high school or college debate. The fact that Palin connected with the American people is the important thing. She grew stronger through the debate and her finish was great!!!
I disagree with your accessment and the original post.
Palin is not finished. She is just getting started.
Perhaps she will choose one of those fine gentlemen as a vice-presidential running mate in 2012.
http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com
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