oooohh...that's not good!
Palin responding to a Katie Couric question on bailouts and answering with an incoherent ramble on other topics...
Not good...
posted by Eric Schansberg @ 8:50 AM
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Friday, September 26, 2008
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I think the bloom has fallen off of the Palin rose. She was chosen to shore up support from the religious conservative base while appealing to independents and women. But McCain's campaign has been overrun by events, and Palin has been demonstrated to be worse than inexperienced—she's miserably out of depth at the national level. The Republicans tried for a while to deflect criticism of her by highlighting any attack that smacked of sexism, and they kept her out of uncontrolled situations (press conferences), but to no avail.
Palin's poor performance (and her collapse in the polls) does not reflect well on McCain: all the reporting I have read indicates that his decision to choose her was done in a very short time frame with little vetting, and it is apparent that his choice of her was motivated by political considerations with little regard to her fitness for the presidency.
McCain tried to shake up what appeared to be a losing campaign by choosing her, a gamble that looked good—for about two weeks. Now he has another gamble: To duck the first debate (which he says he will do if no deal is reached on the bailout today). His proposal was to postpone the debate until Thursday of next week. That was the scheduled date for the VP debate. This doesn't look good.
I don't want to take the time to follow this closely right now, so I'd need more data on Palin (if I cared that much).
But many of the early attacks against her were ridiculous and hypocritical. It would be ironic if later, relevant attacks were diminished by earlier, irrelevant attacks. Something about the yahoos who cried wolf?
Not sure about postponing the debate or not. I can see both sides of that one. From what I've heard, the responses have been completely partisan on that. Interestingly, it may have been purely political-- to pre-empt a similar move by Obama. It would have made more sense for Obama to play that card, so maybe McCain anticipated that and played it himself.
It might be more a matter of wolves crying "yahoo," actually.
wolves indeed!
There was an interesting NY Times article this morning about conservative disenchantment with Palin: Curbing Their Enthusiasm.
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