I love Sarah, but she needs to own the fact that she was ill-prepared to be cast into the den of wolves (MSM) visa vis “the Katie Couric” interview. McCain should have given her a good 6-8 weeks to study up before calling her number for veep. As one writer put it, she’s been “Quayled.”
But what? She had a bad interview so we should all just jump off a bridge. Get positive. Sarah 2012!
Regards
She doesn’t own that, the McLame camp does. If they had let Sarah be Sarah, well, maybe things might have been different.
Then again McLame is a GOP elitist, so snatching defeat.. It’s what they do.
"Hatey Katie" boned up -- if that's the word (her college nickname was "Choo-Choo", don't ask!) -- for something like 36 hours with certified superheavyweights from the CFR to forge the katana she would use on Sarah in that interview. One of Couric's coaches was former Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sam Nunn (D-Ga.), and the other was the current God-King of the CFR, Richard N. Haass (Feces Be Upon Him).
Considering that Sarah had all of about 80 milliseconds to consider the same material Katie had spent two or three days on, Sarah didn't do all that badly.
So the thing to do is what Manor Bush did for scion Dubya and bring in the tutors.
"Sarah, I'd like to introduce you to Secretary Condoleezza Rice and Ambassador John Bolton. They'll be your dojo and sensei for your return match with Hatey Katie."
Someone mentioned Dan Quayle upthread -- the liberals hated on him really hard as a knothead, which means of course that the fact of the matter was, he owned the subject of strategic armaments, defense policy, and arms control doctrines and practices and is a bright and deeply learned man and something of an uber-wonk. He'd be another good one, and he and wife Marilyn are a conservative yokozuna tag-team among the Washington Beltway crowd.