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Charles Krauthammer Tells Bill O’Reilly Sarah Palin Must Expand Policy Knowledge
Mediaite ^ | 12/14/10 | Glen Davis

Posted on 12/14/2010 7:28:22 PM PST by pissant

Bill O’Reilly recently talked with frequent Fox News guest Charles Krauthammer to handicap potential GOP candidates’ chances in the 2012 presidential election. Krauthammer called Mitt Romney the front-runner” and said Mike Huckabee has established himself as a “major player”…but his most dissected comments will probably be his remarks on one Sarah Palin.

Krauthammer compared Palin’s problem to Hillary Clinton’s in the late 1990s – strong support from her core base, virulent opposition from most others. O’Reilly asked if the level of opposition to Palin is the media’s fault, and while Krauthammer said they’ve “contributed enormously” and that “the animus to her is unprecedented,” he also allowed that “she is not practiced in policy” and that the infamous Katie Couric interview was “not a ‘gotcha’ interview.” According to Krauthammer, Palin’s growth in mastering policy issues will shape her fate:

“I think if you want to expand your base, you have to get into policy even though it sounds dull.”

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1 posted on 12/14/2010 7:28:28 PM PST by pissant
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To: pissant

I always like accusations, which is all this amounts to, from people who can’t back it up with examples.


2 posted on 12/14/2010 7:30:30 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: SoConPubbie

Apparently Charlie hasn’t read any of Palin’s Op-ed pieces she has done in the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post


3 posted on 12/14/2010 7:31:25 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: pissant

I agree with a lot of what he says. Palin was made to look stupid in the Couric interview; which we know she is not. But, she isn’t the policy wonk that someone like a Gingrich is. I would vote for her over Gingrich because I think he isn’t trustworthy. But, she needs to bone up enough to sound thoroughly competent on the national stage.


4 posted on 12/14/2010 7:31:35 PM PST by Blogger
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To: pissant

this is such b.s. it has been shown on FR over and over with links out the wazzoo showing her extensive policy knowledge, both foreign and domestic...


5 posted on 12/14/2010 7:31:42 PM PST by raygunfan
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To: pissant
Krauthammer called Mitt Romney the front-runner” and said Mike Huckabee has established himself as a “major player”…

BWAHAHAHA! Ho! HO! HA! HA! ROFL!
6 posted on 12/14/2010 7:31:51 PM PST by SoConPubbie
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To: pissant

Regan was not a policy wonk. Gingrich is the consumate policy wonk. You’re fine Sarah.


7 posted on 12/14/2010 7:33:35 PM PST by Rennes Templar (Figures don't lie, but liars can figure.)
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To: pissant
Krauthammer called Mitt Romney the front-runner” and said Mike Huckabee has established himself as a “major player”

It sounds like Krauthammer is getting senile.

8 posted on 12/14/2010 7:35:42 PM PST by stevem
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To: pissant

The real question will be if Sarah runs, and if she gets the nomination, will Krauthammer be as “helpful” to her as he was to Christine O’Donnell?


9 posted on 12/14/2010 7:36:22 PM PST by KJC1
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To: pissant
Since when is being a policy wonk a Presidential prerequisite?

Palin has experience governing, and she had a very high approval rating as Gov.

10 posted on 12/14/2010 7:37:48 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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To: KJC1
will Krauthammer be as “helpful” to her as he was to Christine O’Donnell?

Yes.

11 posted on 12/14/2010 7:37:51 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas
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To: pissant
Kraut and Tokyo Rove's 15 minutes are over ... irrelevant.
12 posted on 12/14/2010 7:37:57 PM PST by VRWC For Truth (Throw the bums out who vote yes on the bailout)
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To: pissant
She could take krauthammer on head to head on policy and she would kick his miserable liberal dim arse. He would almost always give the one world order, big government, anti American exceptionalism viewpoit, while Sarah would embrace both American exceptionalism as well as American Nationalism. kraut needs to quit playing a conservative for pay... he is just not very good at it.

LLS

13 posted on 12/14/2010 7:40:03 PM PST by LibLieSlayer (WOLVERINES!)
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To: SoConPubbie

Huckabee and Romney , please give me a break.

open borders and homo’s.


14 posted on 12/14/2010 7:40:23 PM PST by manc (FOX/media never mention the homo private who stole the secrets or show the homo agenda do they? mmm)
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To: Blogger

Well, she’s sure no John Bolton when it comes to foreign policy that’s for sure.


15 posted on 12/14/2010 7:40:59 PM PST by Bullish
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To: pissant
DGAS

FWIW

16 posted on 12/14/2010 7:41:33 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter ( I can see 2012 from my cubicle...)
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To: Blogger

I want a leader, not a wonk.


17 posted on 12/14/2010 7:41:50 PM PST by JaguarXKE (RINOs be gone!)
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To: Rennes Templar

Reagan might not have been a wonk along the lines of Gingrich, but he was much more versed on policy than he’s been given credit for. He was writing in-depth position papers in the years after his governorship.


18 posted on 12/14/2010 7:41:57 PM PST by conservativebuckeye
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To: pissant

What Krauthammer is really saying: “ I am Ivy League educated, you are not. That comes first before anything else.”


19 posted on 12/14/2010 7:42:02 PM PST by Fair Paul
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To: pissant
"ObamaBOT, Obama defender, and ObamaCARE-supporter, misogynist-Krauthammer
called Mitt Romney the front-runner”

There, fixed it for you.

"Go Mitt. Go Mitt. Go Mitt.
We attack the GOP's women candidates ….for you.
For you!!!!!!"


"Rove is pushing Romney so aggressively some folks are beginning to wonder what's going on," grumbled one veteran Republican strategist."


"Rove has made no secret of his support for Romney as McCain's VP. "

20 posted on 12/14/2010 7:42:47 PM PST by Diogenesis (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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