Conservatives Turn On McCain-Palin - HuffPo

[WillyT]

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David Brooks writes in the New York Times that Sarah Palin is unqualified:

In the current Weekly Standard, Steven Hayward argues that the nation's founders wanted uncertified citizens to hold the highest offices in the land. They did not believe in a separate class of professional executives. They wanted rough and rooted people like Palin.


I would have more sympathy for this view if I hadn't just lived through the last eight years. For if the Bush administration was anything, it was the anti-establishment attitude put into executive practice.

And the problem with this attitude is that, especially in his first term, it made Bush inept at governance. It turns out that governance, the creation and execution of policy, is hard. It requires acquired skills. Most of all, it requires prudence.

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Sarah Palin has many virtues. If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she'd be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness.

Ross Douthat agrees at the Atlantic: ...

More: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/16/conservatives-turn-on-mcc_n_126749.html

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[villager]

1. And yet I bet that asshole Hayward at the at the Standard gulped the Kool-Aid

...on the "experience meme" being flung against Obama. What that fuckwad means is it's only okay if the Republican is inexperienced...

[WillyT]

3. And This From Cohen...

His opportunistic and irresponsible choice of Sarah Palin as his political heir -- the person in whose hands he would leave the country -- is a form of personal treason, a betrayal of all he once stood for. Palin, no matter what her other attributes, is shockingly unprepared to become president. McCain knows that. He means to win, which is all right; he means to win at all costs, which is not.

Same piece.

[Eric J in MN]

2. Sarah Palin used to raise soft money...

...for a group tied to corrupt Senator Ted Stevens.

I wouldn't trust her to "destroy a corrupt establishment" or to govern well.

[Cha]

4. Maybe even they think there's been enough of

bush in the white house after 8 years. I just saw that clip of palin and charlie on Jon Stewart's for the first time and then the clip of bush talkin' about blinkin' ad infinitum:silly:

Are they talkin' about john mccain's incessant blinkin'? 'Cause I gotta tell ya ..all that creep does is blink.