Conservatives React to Palin

[Hope And Change]

Conservatives React to Palin

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http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/29/125530/561/942/578766

[BrklynLiberal]

1. OK. So now we can stop talking her down...and let the repukes do it...

[liberal N proud]

4. Now we can't let up for a minute

If we relax for one minute on this campaign they WILL steal it. 2 hard months to go to the election and we need to be 100%.

If you have not volunteered yet, you had better get out there now. If you are volunteering, double the effort. The price of our freedom is too high to let these monsters make a joke of it.

[RedEarth]

2. Tokenism. Can anyone say with a straight face that Palin would have gotten picked if she were a man?

From the National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru:

Inexperience. Palin has been governor for about two minutes. Thanks to McCain’s decision, Palin could be commander-in-chief next year. That may strike people as a reckless choice; it strikes me that way. And McCain's age raised the stakes on this issue.

As a political matter, it undercuts the case against Obama. Conservatives are pointing out that it is tricky for the Obama campaign to raise the issue of her inexperience given his own, and note that the presidency matters more than the vice-presidency. But that gets things backward. To the extent the experience, qualifications, and national-security arguments are taken off the table, Obama wins.

And it’s not just foreign policy. Palin has no experience dealing with national domestic issues, either. (On the other hand, as Kate O’Beirne just told me, we know that Palin will be ready for that 3 a.m. phone call: She’ll already be up with her baby.)

Tokenism. Can anyone say with a straight face that Palin would have gotten picked if she were a man?

Compatibility. It doesn’t seem as though McCain knows Palin well. Do we have much reason to think they would work well together?

Debates. Maybe, as Jonah said the other day, Biden will look like a bully going up against her—and maybe she’ll shine. But I can think of a lot of other picks who would have been lower-risk.

I am not even sure that the pick will have quite the galvanizing effect on conservatives that it seems to be having now as it sinks in. The concerns I’ve mentioned here—about her readiness and her credentials—are the kind of thing that many conservative voters take seriously.

[redqueen]

14. "Palin will be ready for that 3 a.m. phone call: She’ll already be up with her baby"

WOW!

[C_U_L8R]

3. Good ... now we can get back to talking about last night !!

: - )))

[BrklynLiberal]

5. Zackly!!!!!!

[bdamomma]

6. yea, for real

the media has their new story to exploit, they can sit in their own BS.

[Raffi Ella]

7. thanks

Gives a some perspective that seems to be missing among all the sexist BULLSHIT being thrown around this place.

[grantcart]

8. the Republican Party is going to be running for their Senate seats

to try and stop a landslide election from getting out of hand

[Mike Daniels]

9. When you don't have Morning Joe or Ragin' Pat on your side you've F'ed it up big time

From MSNBC's Joe Scarborough:

It Sounds Like a Harriet Miers Decision. Let's Find a Woman, Whether She's Experienced or Not.

and from everybody's favorite paleo-con fossil:

"She Just Is Not Ready to Be Commander-in-Chief" Pat Buchanan on MSNBC just now, about Sarah Palin.




First you have ol' Pat declaring Obama's speech as one of the best convention speeches ever and now he slams McCains VP pick.

Things are getting a might peculiar in the universe.

[crimsonblue]

11. Pat may even endorse Obama!

Omg, we are truly in the Twilight Zone.

[Alter Ego]

13. Pat seems to be in the "Even A Stopped Clock Is Right Twice A Day" camp.

[yellowcanine]

10. Remember that it was conservatives who revolted over Harriet Meirs. What the heck could McCain have

been thinking? This is the weirdest VP pick since Spiro Agnew.

[Alter Ego]

12. I am shocked at the Ron Fournier comment.

I expected him to react more along these lines:

"My Lord and God-Emperor John McCain chose Lady Sarah Palin of the wonderful state of Alaska to be his partner on their blessed journey to the White House. I shall slobber God-Emperor McCain's knob EXTRA vigorously tonight!"