Suppose, for the sake of argument, Sarah Palin did exactly as Kathleen Parker suggests, and quits with the excuse that she wants to spend more time with her family. Would anybody, including Kathleen Parker, buy that story?
I mean, think it through, honey...
You used a false headline. That’s a no-no.
WHO????
“I love Obama for his style, grace, intellect, and his way with words. I want the healing power that an Obama presidency could deliver to this country.”
Kathleen Parker
Bill Buckley is rolling in his grave.
From which I'm afraid one must conclude that Parker is rather easily bamboozled, and worse yet, remains confused long enough to commit such insipid balderdash to paper, revision, and presumably editing.
Obama, a man whose intellect and way with words renders him aphasic in even the most routine circumstances, has extended his healing power over the First Amendment, threatening those who disagree with his record with censorship, lawsuits and criminal action. Doubtless, this will not trouble Kathleen, whose Obama kneepads have been getting a good workout over the last few weeks: she's never written much that The One could object to, although occasionally she admits to being "troubled" that on some subjects he "isn't serious enough." Let us hope for her sake he isn't as serious about muzzling his opposition as he appears to be.
A modest proposal for all the Northeastern Conservatives so very dismayed by Plain's candidacy: how about running just one column on the disgraceful career of Barack Obama during the years when he was pretending to be a social worker? How about waxing thoughtful over a few column inches about his campaign's vicious assault on free speech? How about a hand-wringing session on the lack of genuine accomplishments by someone supposedly so intellectually gifted?
Then, when the impulse strikes to channel Peggy Noonan's pointless drivel once again, maybe you could turn your attention to the Democrats' VP nominee: a man who -- even on the rare occasions he appears to actually be sober -- makes Dan Quayle look like Albert Einstein.
National Review pretty nearly managed to eliminate all the conservatives from the race by their STUPID support of Mitt Romney because they thought he was “electable.”
Well, it turned out that he wasn’t.
Now McCain has given us a second chance for a conservative outcome with Sarah Palin, and they don’t like that either.
I noticed that while Bill Buckley was still alive he didn’t say a lot about Mitt Romney. He just kind of stood in the background and smiled, while the board voted to endorse Mitt.
Time for NR to get back to the basics. Fish or cut bait.
I’m sick of polished pols who BS their way through interviews taking precious minutes to say absolutely nothing. It wastes my time.
I’m sick of people being presumed qualified for the office of the Presidency just because they can read other people’s words off of a teleprompter effectively. I’m bright enough to know it can also mean they lie effectively.
But most of all I’m sick of the Noonan’s and Parker’s of the world using their BS Degrees to try to convince me that it’s “healing” to elect a slick politician who can lie effectively.
No thanks. We had that in the ‘90s. I’ll take doers over talkers any day of the week.
Couric sat there all slitty-eyed with hate. Obama stammers. Biden is nothing short of a buffoon.
But Palin embarrasses Catty Kathy.
Noonan and Parker are both suffering from a new mental disorder called “Palin envy.” This disorder manifests itself in middle aged or older professional women (especially columnists, politicians, and pundits) that can’t deal with an intelligent and confident (and heaven forbid...attractive) female that upstages them, when they don’t think the upstager is as qualified as them for a particular job - in this case VP. Noonan and Parker really wanted the job themselves. Palin envy.
Parker wrote a column last year where she called Hillary “well qualified” to be president. Since then I’ve taken everything she’s written with a grain of salt. Anyone who would think a quasi-socialist like Hillary was fit to run anything but a rummage sale is not playing with a full deck.
One of the major problems for conservatives a/o Republicans is that too many of them with a keyboard or an invite to one of the cables ..
are pansies, wusses, fair weather friends easily swayed by the bully media.
They all run in the same social circles and want to live by the Sally Field credo-
“ You like me, you really like me !!”
You sicken me, you really sicken me.
And that includes Rove of late -too willing to be seen as being “ impartial “ and pounding McCain because, sniff, sniff-his ads were too mean.
I can’t stand weak men and unfortunately, there seem to be quite a few of them on our side .
Like the whining, hand wringing pundits who populate the American Spectator.
I see the spineless jellyfish mentality has seeped into the NRO.
I’ll take Sarah Palin any day over these pompous , wimpy gas bags and gas baggettes on the left and too often now, the right.
Hmmm. This was in NRO? Perhaps they’ve taken to trying to appear “fair and balanced” by offering opposing views by liberal columnists? An author that swoons over the likes of Obama, who is obviously by his own past persistent associations & writings a radical, racist, Marxist idealogue, is certainly NO conservative. So, why are they publishing this woman in NRO?
Absolutely right. I hope we all remember those who turn coat at a critical time. The dumping on Sarah Palin has reached new depths - simply vile.