Posted on 12/16/2008 11:15:22 AM PST by lewisglad
We can't understand why, six weeks after the election, it's still open season on Palin in the media. The latest "big story" came Sunday when John McCain appeared on ABC's "This Week" with George Stephanopoulos and was asked if Palin could count on his support if she ran for president in 2012.
McCain quite sensibly refused to commit himself to endorsing anyone in an election that's four years away, saying only that there are a number of young Republican governors who are ready to move into national leadership positions.
That got headlines that read in effect, "McCain refuses to endorse Palin," and prompted talking heads to comment that he apparently had changed his mind about Palin's qualification for office.
Of course that's not what he said. And Stephanopoulos' question wasn't about that - it was about trying to pin McCain down on whether he would support Palin for the nomination in 2012.
For some reason, Palin was met with almost instant dislike after McCain named her as his running mate. We can't recall another political figure who drew that kind of reaction so quickly.
Reporters descended on her church and searched through her children's birth records and even the records of a friend's divorce hoping to find something to turn into a scandal.
Honest critics of Palin, though, should admit that Palin is anything but dumb, and it's impossible to predict the future.
Suppose she ends up taking Ted Stevens' Senate seat and spends the next four or eight years working on legislation and dealing with national and international issues.
In that event, the Sarah Palin who emerged in 2012 or 2016 would be a quite different candidate from the one we met this fall.
Would we change our minds and endorse her? We couldn't say at this point, and it would be a silly question - as silly as the one Stephanopoulos asked McCain on Sunday. Seriously, with all the problems that the country is facing, can't we get over this obsession with Palin?
Speculation for 2012...
Sufficient for the day is the evil of it.
Sells papers. You betcha.
And the cobra is fascinated by the mongoose.
Guardian angels, stay alert.
The reaction to Palin was sheer hysteria, literally so because radical feminists propelled it.
I fully expect McCain will endorse Obama in 2012.
Unless Obama disses him along the way. It’s all about John, you know.
“For some reason, Palin was met with almost instant dislike after McCain named her as his running mate.”
Simple. Palin was seen as severe threat to Obamachev’s election. She had to be destroyed. Obama showed the way by calling her a pig.
She can come back. She’ll have to be tough though.
The MSM controls the liberal mindset. They know conservatives can’t be manipulated, so they have to try to convince ignorants that Palin is unqualified. They are laying the groundwork for defeating Palin in 2012 (if they survive that long)
Last I heard, Steven's lost reelection to a Democrat so that one isn't open and she has said she won't run in the primary against the current Republican for the other seat.
Vampires' reaction to a Cross is the vernacular explanation.
Here's what God says about it:
2 Cor 2:14-17
Who is McCain? Never heard of him.
Ted Stevens doesn’t have a Senate seat.
It was more than hysteria. It was the most dishonorable, hateful, sexist, gutter-level smear campaign I have ever witnessed. The leftists hate her because she is everything they aren’t... and she looks good doing it.
Who care about Stephanopolous? He’s a Clinton Cronie.
Yes a Clinton Cronie sitting in the seat that David Brinkley once sat in. What a joke! Now, You have Obama who is nothing but a yankee crook from Chicago. In 4 years it will be apparent to all that he is not as he appears.
people will be looking for somone who is outside the Washington sphere. Palin fits that bill nicely.
This is what leftwing propaganda has come to, one cannot participate in government if one is not highly educated by the liberal elite.
“We can’t understand why, six weeks after the election, it’s still open season on Palin in the media.”
They’ve taken her measure and she scares them, as a politician and as a female.
I fully expect McCain will announce he is a Candidate for the Presidency in 2010.
The more they trash Palin the higher our opinion of her.
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