Palin on the debate: “I’m the new energy, the new face, the new ideas”; Update: George Will tells audience Palin’s not qualified? Update: Hewitt transcript added

posted at 6:34 pm on September 30, 2008 by Allahpundit

Change versus experience, with the parties reversed for one night only. Any attempt to humiliate her apparently now qualifies as “news” so here’s the Chicago Tribune throwing a few column inches at that nude portrait of her you’ve already doubtless heard about. Maybe it’s because nearly every story I read about her these days feels obliged to mention Kathleen Parker’s “Sarah must go” piece for NRO or maybe I’ve just seen one too many posts from Sullivan attacking her with gleeful derangement, but I’ve got a silly hunch that her detractors want to see a lot more on Thursday than a Biden victory. They want an implosion. Anything less and that itch of theirs just isn’t going to be scratched.

She’s already started making the talk-radio rounds I mentioned yesterday, phoning in to chat with Hugh Hewitt in the first hour today. The transcript’s not available yet but he’s replaying the segment, so tune in if you can’t wait. Geraghty jotted down some of the particulars. Sounds like she did well.


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Update: It’s HuffPo so take it for what it’s worth, but this would jibe with Will’s general line on Palin thus far:

Famed conservative columnist George Will told a gathering of Senate aides on Monday that Gov. Sarah Palin is “obviously” not prepared to assume the presidency if necessary, two event attendees told the Huffington Post…

Palin is “obviously not qualified to be President,” he remarked, describing her interview on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric as a “disaster.”

Will did state, according to a second source, that Palin has received rough treatment from the media; arguing that the Alaska Governor would have been “skewered” by the press if she had made some of the same gaffes as Sen. Joe Biden has in recent weeks.

Update: Here’s the Hewitt transcript.


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Gov. Palin has no paper trail when it comes to her views. I challenge anyone to find one position paper in regards to her view on foreign policy. If she had spent a number years publishing her conservative viewpoints and giving speeches about her philosophy of governance I for one wouldn’t mind that she had very limited experience.

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 8:58 PM

…she’s not published, so she gives you the heeby-jeebies?

…Mr. O, your chosen guy, has been playing his stuff close to his chest, but he’s published. What we know of him, and the more we know of him, is what gives me the heeby-jeebies!

…remember: Hitler was published…it’s just that the prose was so thick and awful that nobody ever read it….

Puritan1648 on September 30, 2008 at 9:04 PM

Puritan1648 on September 30, 2008 at 8:54 PM

Great post.

dedalus on September 30, 2008 at 9:04 PM

What I will argue is that her lack of thinking about foreign affairs disqualifies her…If she had spent a number years publishing her conservative viewpoints and giving speeches about her philosophy of governance I for one wouldn’t mind that she had very limited experience.

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 8:58 PM

I wonder how many years obama has spent “thinking” about foreign policies or writing papers about it. She is not applying for the job of secretary of state. Presidents have cabinets and a gazillion professional public servants for a reason. Presidents have to have the judgment and ability to use the resources at their disposal and make the best decisions possible for the country. Palin has demonstrated she can do it for the people of Alaska, Obama has demonstrated nothing.

neuquenguy on September 30, 2008 at 9:08 PM

neuquenguy on September 30, 2008 at 8:57 PM

I think that’s the sort of thing you just can’t worry about. They have an obvious agenda and they are going to stay on message. Even if she is absolutely stunning Thursday night, it would never be acknowledged. And despite what some people think, conservatives are not interested in destroying the planet with nuclear weapons and only someone already identified as a horse’s patoot would suggest differently.

Cindy Munford on September 30, 2008 at 9:08 PM

Gov. Palin has no paper trail when it comes to her views. I challenge anyone to find one position paper in regards to her view on foreign policy.

Kind of like voting present.

Obama is an uber light weight back bencher who like Chauncey Gardiner was thrust from anonymity into the limelight.

Had the political road to the senate not been cleared through the missteps of others it is likely his rise would have been less inspiring.

Granted, through the process of running he has been able to hone his message and appear presidential. But he’s still the affirmative action candidate who would not be where he is if he were not black.

moxie_neanderthal on September 30, 2008 at 9:10 PM

Cindy Munford on September 30, 2008 at 9:08 PM

You need to work on your comprehension and slow down on your fanciful projections. I’d be much more worried that she wouldn’t be able to give the orders if the need arose.
You said that not much experience is a good thing. Will you also concede that in Obama’s case his relative inexperience is no big deal either?

Bradky on September 30, 2008 at 9:20 PM

Isn’t it interesting that when it comes to qualifications we are always contrasting Palin with Obama? Palin is being vetted for the presidency and Obama has not yet been vetted for the vice-presidency.

neuquenguy on September 30, 2008 at 9:21 PM

Gov. Palin has no paper trail when it comes to her views. I challenge anyone to find one position paper in regards to her view on foreign policy. If she had spent a number years publishing her conservative viewpoints and giving speeches about her philosophy of governance I for one wouldn’t mind that she had very limited experience. But she doesn’t and that why some of conservaties and not just liberals think that picking her was a mistake.

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 8:58 PM

This from an 0B0mber supporter? You dare ask about position papers and view points? You who support the ultimate Manchurian candidate who mostly votes present so as to disguise his own true self. Who has no published thesis from all that time in a college he was not even qualified to attend? Who is nothing more than an empty suited, vacuous minded, affirmative action, 1/2 black who associates with America haters and Marxists?

Do you read your own dribble man? You who support the least qualified member of the Senate and the least qualified candidate ever to deem himself qualified to run for Commander and Chief of these great states?

This Chicago imported douchebag is not qualified to bring Palin, McCain or George W. Bush their car in the morning let alone presume to lead anything other than a failed innercity cesspool of a housing rippoff.

dhunter on September 30, 2008 at 9:22 PM

This from an 0B0mber supporter? You dare ask about position papers and view points? You who support the ultimate Manchurian candidate who mostly votes present so as to disguise his own true self. Who has no published thesis from all that time in a college he was not even qualified to attend?
dhunter on September 30, 2008 at 9:22 PM

Comic isn’t it? You are looking at the bread-and-butter strategy for the left: Take your biggest weekness, project it onto you opponent and make it you main line of attack.

neuquenguy on September 30, 2008 at 9:28 PM

Barrack Obama has zero experience and George Will can do the flying leap through a donut thing.

kahall on September 30, 2008 at 9:30 PM

moxie_neanderthal on September 30, 2008 at 9:10 PM

Sorry to repeatt your post moxie I was typing as you were posting, we were thinking the same thoughts. The pretzel logic it takes to be an 0B0mba supporter and Palin basher at the same is incredible. The mind truely is a terrible waste for these who bend their small little brains into pretzels trying to justify the least qualified candidate for President ever yet bash a citizen Governor as unqualified.

dhunter on September 30, 2008 at 9:30 PM

Great post.

dedalus on September 30, 2008 at 9:04 PM

…of course….

*PREEEEEEEEN*

…wait a minute! Only that one?!

…harrumph….

…actually, they’re usually good here…across the board…some are better than others….

*PREEEEEEEEN*

…but they’re usually good…across the board….

…you, too….

…what makes ‘em good, left or right, are those to which you can reply, and get a conversation going…straightlines for the idle mind…it keeps the Alzheimers at bay, they say….

Puritan1648 on September 30, 2008 at 9:33 PM

Bradky on September 30, 2008 at 9:20 PM

The point you fail to notice is that I have not been critical of Sen. Obama. Obviously our ideologies do not mesh so he is not the candidate for me. My point is that for me the fact that Gov. Palin is not an inside the beltway wonk or Ivy League elitist is a plus because I think those people are out of touch with most of America. At no time have I belittled your beliefs or opinions, the same can not be said of you. You have been extremely rude based on nothing more than I don’t agree with you.

Cindy Munford on September 30, 2008 at 9:37 PM

I don’t give a rat’s ass as to what is asked of Gov Palin….as long as the same questions are asked of The Messiah is the same snarky tone.

Dingbat63 on September 30, 2008 at 9:39 PM

Obama is an uber light weight back bencher who like Chauncey Gardiner was thrust from anonymity into the limelight.

moxie_neanderthal on September 30, 2008 at 9:10 PM

…this is the first time I’ve seen the Obama/Chauncey Gardiner equation…brilliant!

Right on the money…I wonder if he could get Shirley McLaine to…er…compromise herself at his bedside. Probably, knowing Shirley….

On another note, I’ve seen mentions of “Obama supporters”. It brings to mind those little elastic contraptions that we had to buy in junior high to keep the ol’ package from heeding the temptations of gravity and stay out of the way of volleyballs.

“So, Mr. Jones”, says the coach to the callow youth, “are you wearing your Obama supporter today?”

…the lad reaches up the leg of his stiff cotton gym shorts and snaps a strap as proof of his equipage.

“Good, my boy! Don’t wanna hurt your Obama before you’ve had a chance to use it!”

Puritan1648 on September 30, 2008 at 9:40 PM

I don’t give a rat’s ass as to what is asked of Gov Palin….as long as the same questions are asked of The Messiah is the same snarky tone. – Dingbat63 on September 30, 2008 at 9:39 PM

What an appropriate screen name.

ManlyRash on September 30, 2008 at 9:45 PM

Will is having more senior moments these days. He always was a beltway elitist and he is threatened by this blast of fresh invigorating artic air coming into the Washington zone. Couric looks a bit taken aback by Sarah’s brashness. She was trying to set her up to hit McCain’s age and experience on the 2nd grade thing but PAlin squirmed out of it.

wepeople on September 30, 2008 at 9:46 PM

I’d like to see George Will interview Sarah Palin – they have some things in common.

Candy Slice on September 30, 2008 at 9:47 PM

The thing that irritates the crap out of me is that NOBODY asked these kinds of questions to JOhn Edwards in 2004. The sum total of his experience before he ran for PRESIDENT was less than Barack Obama’s, much less Sarah Palin’s. Three years in the Senate with zero accomplishments, preceded by a lucrative career as an ambulance-chasing trial lawyer. An extremely waethy man on a ticket with an even wealthier man, yapping for 3 months about the plight of the working man with straight faces. And not a soul in the MSM called them on it.

Why is it OK for Democrats to run for the highest offices in the land based only on a good speech or two, but any Republican is required to have substantial national experience? (And that gets defined however Katie Couric and the NYT editorial page decide.) And believe me, the MSM would have thrown just as much of this experience crap at Mitt Romney – “a one-term governor who could not get his chosen successor elected.”

When will somebody point out that this double-standard has existed for DECADES?

rockmom on September 30, 2008 at 9:48 PM

Sorry, Will’s right: She’s not ready now to be President.
Neither is Obama, but that’s another story.
SteveMG on September 30, 2008 at 7:33 PM

Well, it’s a good thing that Palin isn’t running for president. ANd wed be screwed if Obama gets elected, wont we

So you’re saying that no governor is ready to be president? That makes no sense. She is as ready as any other governor, and she is the governor of the largest state in the nation.
Gabe on September 30, 2008 at 7:37 PM

Its my belief that governors make better presidents. Bill Clinton was a lousy president in my opinion, but not because of a lack of experience, as much as he’s a democrat. Senators gain experience at a slower pace for the executive position of government to be president, but a smart republican senator of many years in the senate trumps an idiot junior senator whos a democrat any day of the week. And while Palin’s credentials to be president may not be robust, I would (as I have seen so far) trust her judgement over someone like Obama to be president.

And it goes without saying that while Palin would be VP, shed be doing her job and being trained at the same time. If anything were to happen, she would be supported by a McCain administration of very experienced advisors. But most people already know that.

wise_man on September 30, 2008 at 9:54 PM

He wants to increase that deposit insurance cap of all of our money, our savings, from $100,000 dollars up to $250,000 dollars, so that families like mine, so that we don’t have to worry about our money being safe or not under FDIC.

This is the kind of thing she has to avoid. Most families don’t have over $100,000 in the bank, and when she says “like mine” it would be used to portray her as out of touch. I don’t have a problem with what she said, but if it were said in a debate it would end up being used against her.

Mark1971 on September 30, 2008 at 6:57 PM

I have not read all three pages of comments yet, but I felt compelled to answer this before I got to the end.

One thing everyone needs to remember is that many a small business does have that amount in their bank accounts. From what I understand, according to both the First Dude and Governor Palin, they do indeed own, or have a small business. Many small businesses also file on their own personal income tax and are not separate. They file as a separate business entity, but under their individual tax bracket. So, I do believe she had this correct but did not flesh it out in explaining the special circumstances of her personal situation and how that is similar to many small business owners across America.

freeus on September 30, 2008 at 9:54 PM

rockmom on September 30, 2008 at 9:48 PM

I had the most fun when Sally Quinn wrote to say that Gov. Palin’s children needed her to be at home with them. I email Ms. Quinn and asked her to re-print her article asking John Edwards to stop his presidential campaign when his wife was diagnosed with cancer for the second time since he also has two small children (and possibly an infant). Oddly, I didn’t receive an answer

Cindy Munford on September 30, 2008 at 9:56 PM

The thing that irritates the crap out of me is that NOBODY asked these kinds of questions to JOhn Edwards in 2004.
Why is it OK for Democrats to run for the highest offices in the land based only on a good speech or two, but any Republican is required to have substantial national experience?
When will somebody point out that this double-standard has existed for DECADES?
rockmom on September 30, 2008 at 9:48 PM

In addition to your points, No one asked who wrote Biden’s speech that he gave as VP nominee. But they asked this of Palin’s speech she gave at the RNC convention.

It’s absolutely double standards. Just as no one was wondering who was going to take care of the kids if Edwards were to be elected with Kerry. AS they ask of Palin. Double standard. It’s a long list. What’s not asked of the democrats and whats made a federal case against the republicans.

wise_man on September 30, 2008 at 9:58 PM

Gov. Palin did quite well with Couric today. She didn’t try to over accommodate Couric, stayed within her own base of knowledge, and even jabbed back a bit.

George Will never fails to fail. He is too much of a Ivy League tool for my money.

Captain America on September 30, 2008 at 10:04 PM

So can anyone tell me if there’s ever been a President elected with experience in the job? ( Save a successful incumbent)

irongrampa on September 30, 2008 at 10:17 PM

Bradky, Bradky?

Cindy Munford on September 30, 2008 at 10:27 PM

At best maybe a sitting Vice President.

Cindy Munford on September 30, 2008 at 10:29 PM

irongrampa on September 30, 2008 at 10:17 PM

Sorry, I was replying to you and left a step out. At best maybe a sitting Vice President.

Cindy Munford on September 30, 2008 at 10:30 PM

As Donald Rumsfeld would say, George Will’s comments about Gov. Palin were ‘notably unhelpful’.

scrubjay on September 30, 2008 at 10:31 PM

So can anyone tell me if there’s ever been a President elected with experience in the job? ( Save a successful incumbent)

irongrampa on September 30, 2008 at 10:17 PM

…George Washington.

He didn’t strictly speaking have experience at any similar job…hadn’t even been a governor. Best he managed was being a state representative (as was expected of him) and a moderately successful general.

…but, they wrote the job description with him in mind, which must count for something, I reckon….

Puritan1648 on September 30, 2008 at 10:37 PM

This from an 0B0mber supporter? You dare ask about position papers and view points? You who support the ultimate Manchurian candidate who mostly votes present so as to disguise his own true self. Who has no published thesis from all that time in a college he was not even qualified to attend? Who is nothing more than an empty suited, vacuous minded, affirmative action, 1/2 black who associates with America haters and Marxists?

dhunter on September 30, 2008 at 9:22 PM

I always found it perplexing when people attack Obama as an empty suited affirmative action recipient. How can you smear a man who graduated Magna Cum Laude from one of the most prestigious school in the country. If he was unqualified to attend then how did he excel once he got in? Furthermore this so called empty suited vacuous minded man has managed to write and publish two well received books, give many elegant speeches, and stand toe to toe and debate with one of the premier experts on foreign policy.

I find it interesting that when people reply to my arguments on why Palin is unqualified they just go and engage in ad hominem attacks instead of trying to justify Palin thin public record. I accept that there are opposing viewpoints, and that people have profound differences with Obama’s and my worldview, but when people who oppose Obama resort to suggesting that he could be an incipient Hitler, or than he’s an intellectually bankrupt moron, then their reason has been overtaken by intense partisan anger.

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 10:38 PM

Point I was trying to make is that any elected president will have NO experience IN administering said Presidency, the rest of the point was this–why then are we making such a fuss about the VP”s experience level?

I apologize for the discontinuity, the dog decided she widhed to type a few lines also.

irongrampa on September 30, 2008 at 10:43 PM

Maybe I should just let her post.

irongrampa on September 30, 2008 at 10:44 PM

So can anyone tell me if there’s ever been a President elected with experience in the job? ( Save a successful incumbent)

Yeah, just one. Grover Cleveland. He served one term as President and then sat out a couple of terms. Then he was elected again, not as an incumbent but with actual job experience.

JonPrichard on September 30, 2008 at 10:52 PM

man who graduated Magna Cum Laude

He did? What school? Wasn’t Columbia. Harvard law? No, not that either.

JonPrichard on September 30, 2008 at 10:55 PM

He did? What school? Wasn’t Columbia. Harvard law? No, not that either.

JonPrichard on September 30, 2008 at 10:55 PM

Yes it was Harvard law.

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 11:02 PM

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 10:38 PM

I will not question Sen. Obama’s intelligence but don’t you think two autobiographies before you are fifty is just a wee bit arrogant? And I have a really big problem with his associates. Add to that that we have opposite ideologies and it means I don’t vote for him. Jack Kennedy was a war hero, Sen. Obama is no Jack Kennedy.

Cindy Munford on September 30, 2008 at 11:04 PM

irongrampa on September 30, 2008 at 10:44 PM

You make an excellent point, I think that is the ultimate on the job training. And the puppy did great also.

Cindy Munford on September 30, 2008 at 11:05 PM

Furthermore this so called empty suited vacuous minded man has managed to write and publish two well received books, give many elegant speeches

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 10:38 PM

Can’t imagine… two books about HIMSELF and AN ELEGANT SPEECH (2004 Dem Convention). “As I’ve always said”, you can tell an empty suit because… well… it’s empty.

CC

CapedConservative on September 30, 2008 at 11:06 PM

Yes it was Harvard law.

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 11:02 PM

You cite a “home made” encyclopedia! Wait! Give me a few minutes and we’ll go make the grades lower… Better yet, let’s make them higher AND toss in some Peace Corps work while he was at it….. How about a genuine transcript.

CC

CapedConservative on September 30, 2008 at 11:09 PM

I always found it perplexing when people attack Obama as an empty suited affirmative action recipient. How can you smear a man who graduated Magna Cum Laude from one of the most prestigious school in the country. If he was unqualified to attend then how did he excel once he got in? Furthermore this so called empty suited vacuous minded man has managed to write and publish two well received books, give many elegant speeches, and stand toe to toe and debate with one of the premier experts on foreign policy.

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 10:38 PM

…and, yes, he’s an empty suit.

He has an impressive resume…of a sort. He’s spent a career padding it, to be sure. It’s just that he’s a bit thin in the achievements area. He’s been mentored up the Leftist cursus honorum by some interesting revolutionary heavy-hitters…and he’s written two self-congratulatory books (which, as someone else wisely observed, is a tad arrogant for a nobody)…and he employs some dandy speechwriters…and he can mouth their pap wonderfully….

…yes…the man is the essence of style…no substance to speak of, but some magnificent style…makes all around him feel good about liking him. He is the walking/talking cure for white guilt! He is a racial handiwipe!

…but credentials?

…the man is a societal and governmental trainwreck pulling into the station.

…this isnt’ ad hominem, by the way…it isn’t really an attack. It’s more of a recitation of all not written in that shining resume…volume 1….

Puritan1648 on September 30, 2008 at 11:17 PM

Will and Noonan–two Washington insiders so despised by the Right, they are finishing out their careers sucking up to Lefties. BARF!! I never click links for either of them.

james23 on September 30, 2008 at 11:19 PM

irongrampa on September 30, 2008 at 10:17 PM

Hmm,
FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush. On a good day Palin might match up with Carter.
Your question is a silly one or you are one of the people that gets interviewed on Jaywalking.

Bradky on September 30, 2008 at 11:37 PM

You cite a “home made” encyclopedia! Wait! Give me a few minutes and we’ll go make the grades lower… Better yet, let’s make them higher AND toss in some Peace Corps work while he was at it….. How about a genuine transcript.

CapedConservative on September 30, 2008 at 11:09 PM

Do you really believe that Obama, under the intensive scrutiny of a presidential campaign, could get away with lying about his graduate honors? Lets think about this logically, let say that 200 people were in his graduating law class, do you think that all of them would be in on a conspiracy to keep his real standing secret. Or what about his time teaching at University of Chicago, I would imagine they would request his Harvard transcript. And do you really think McCain’s oppositional research is so incompetent as do not turn up such a blatant lie? Your accusation isn’t credible.

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 11:42 PM

CapedConservative on September 30, 2008 at 11:06 PM

I wish I could remember who it was but just recently someone said that Sen. Obama’s presidential run had saved him from becoming a serial autobiographer. Very funny, it may have been Krauthammer but I am not sure.

Cindy Munford on September 30, 2008 at 11:48 PM

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 11:42 PM

Darlin, you had me until “intensive scrutiny”. Really? Are you kidding me. Sen. Obama has an abundance of lip prints on his hindquarters from almost every media outlet in the U.S..

Cindy Munford on September 30, 2008 at 11:53 PM

Why are we legitimizing Katie Couric with all of these interviews? Regardless of how much I like the woman, these interviews have totally sucked. Someone get her to go on Mark Levin or do an interview with Shep Smith/Brit Hume/Chris Wallace.

“Liberal media bias”…blah blah blah…”condescension”…blah blah blah…”let’s give Couric a third inteview!!!” Her response on Biden giving speeches since she was a kid was disingenuous and lame. Look at Couric and just say, “Can’t you take a joke?” Or even, “Well, the point was that Biden has been doing just that; giving speeches. John McCain has been doing quite a bit more than that.”

She better glow on Thursday dammit!

Levinite on September 30, 2008 at 11:56 PM

Levinite on September 30, 2008 at 11:56 PM

I haven’t watch the Couric interview but she was good on Hugh Hewitt. I got the impression she will be doing the rounds with the rest. I don’t think this was a third interview, just an unseen portion of the same one. Many said it was better than the previous. I don’t want to see her with Shep Smith, he drives me crazy with his overly dramatic style.

Cindy Munford on October 1, 2008 at 12:05 AM

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 10:38 PM

Bull sh*t on Obama’s school record..

Last I checked, they haven’t been released yet..

until they are released for the public.. BEE, ES.

DaveC on October 1, 2008 at 12:17 AM

In the interview clip.. When Sarah was in Second Grade.. Talking about hearing Biden’s speeches..

when did Biden steal Neil Kinnock’s speech? 1987?

never mind.. don’t think that adds up..

DaveC on October 1, 2008 at 12:26 AM

On a good day Palin might match up with Carter.

Bradky on September 30, 2008 at 11:37 PM

Carter? You’re gonna dare compare her to that Jew-hating monster? Get bent, you RINO tool.

doubleplusundead on October 1, 2008 at 12:53 AM

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 8:58 PM

So let me get this right. You feel Sarah Palin is unqualified to be the Vice President because of her lack of experience. Yet you feel Obama is qualified to be President? He has no more experience than Palin, and at least Palin had to be an administrator and executive with a budget in Alaska. Obama has ZERO executive experience. He has always been an activist or a legislator.

As for the books by Obama, it is easy to write fiction and make it sound good. Both of the books by The One have been roundly criticized for his liberal (excuse the pun) use of literary license.

Hawthorne on October 1, 2008 at 12:59 AM

Cindy Munford on October 1, 2008 at 12:05 AM

I agree that Shep Smith is too dramatic. Seeing her interviewed by Brit Hume would be awesome though.

Hawthorne on October 1, 2008 at 1:04 AM

This from an 0B0mber supporter? You dare ask about position papers and view points? You who support the ultimate Manchurian candidate who mostly votes present so as to disguise his own true self. Who has no published thesis from all that time in a college he was not even qualified to attend?
dhunter on September 30, 2008 at 9:22 PM

Comic isn’t it? You are looking at the bread-and-butter strategy for the left: Take your biggest weekness, project it onto you opponent and make it you main line of attack.

neuquenguy on September 30, 2008 at 9:28 PM

A very true observation that we should take advantage of. Whatever the left accuses you of is almost certainly something they’re guilty of. They accuse Palin of being unready for the presidency. Guess what is Obama’s biggest weakness…. They accuse the Republicans of “Republican dirty tricks. Guess who depends the most on dirty tricks, smears, and “October surprises.” They are always looking for Republican scandals. That is the single biggest indicator that they’re hiding scandals themselves.

theregoestheneighborhood on October 1, 2008 at 1:15 AM

Fred

http://townhall.com/columnists/FredThompson/2008/09/30/qualified

Mr. Wednesday Night on October 1, 2008 at 1:51 AM

“I will not question Sen. Obama’s intelligence but don’t you think two autobiographies before you are fifty is just a wee bit arrogant? ”

Especially when he writes that parts of his Autobiography contain composites of many people and situations. Some autobiography.

davod on October 1, 2008 at 3:52 AM

George Will is not qualified to decide whether or not Sarah Palin is qualified. Bag of wind.

Terrye on October 1, 2008 at 6:57 AM

Will and Noonan–two Washington insiders so despised by the Right, they are finishing out their careers sucking up to Lefties. BARF!! I never click links for either of them.

james23 on September 30, 2008 at 11:19 PM

Bravo!! I can see them having high tea at the Four Seasons commisserating about the good old days when John Lindsay strolled through Harlem with his sleeves of his button down shirt rolled up (the shirt was heavily starched by the way).

Fuquay Steve on October 1, 2008 at 7:51 AM

Anyone ask Will if he thinks Obama is qualified to be President? I am guessing that answer would also be ‘no’.

Jaibones on October 1, 2008 at 7:52 AM

Hawthorne on October 1, 2008 at 1:04 AM

Shep would stand up on the podium and start screaming that their are people suffering in the world. I find him to be a young O’Reilly or just a msm buttman.

Fuquay Steve on October 1, 2008 at 7:54 AM

Ric on September 30, 2008 at 11:02 PM

Oh, try the all high minded and clean and articulate crap on me now troll.
You sound like some pointy headed college professor who thought 0Bomber desreved summa cum louder because he is the right skin color and tried hard.

Yet you come on here and bash a Governor with real experience, real reform, real change, a real record, an 80% approval rating from her constiuents and expect to get away with it.

Perhaps you elitist snobs don’t like the way she talks? Perhaps you don’t like her leavin off the g’s on her words? Well she is just like some of us, a citizen not an insider, a reformer not an ass kisser!

Have you ever heard your candidate in front of a black audience leavin the g’s off and more, or without his teleprompter? Er, Ah ERRR, AHH , Like I said, Like I have always said , right before he lies his ass off?

Listen next time he shows up at the rodeo with his teleprompter and then again when he doesn’t have it and tell me the guys not a vacuous, emopty suited, phony!

Did Koos send you over here on the last open enrollment to spew your crap for the One who would drag this country further into the sewer?

dhunter on October 1, 2008 at 9:54 AM

As Donald Rumsfeld would say, George Will’s comments about Gov. Palin were ‘notably unhelpful’

Or even Chirac (Un Ver!) “Will missed an excellent opportunity to shut up”

Oh and “ManlyRash”? You cracking on someone else’s nick was an LOL moment, for sure. (They make ointment for that, you know…)

rhodeymark on October 1, 2008 at 11:21 AM

Where are the Obama’s State Senate Papers? Oh yeah, he burned them! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black (oh, just another racist phrase). Where were Bill Clinton’s Arkansas foreign policy position papers? Where were John Edwards’ foreign policy position papers in his LLC? Where are Obama’s domestic policy position papers, like funding marxist reeducation centers for kids k-12? Or how about the joys of working with unrepentent domestic terrorists and trotskyites for political advancement? Expect to see those documents anytime soon in your local LMSM?

eaglewingz08 on October 1, 2008 at 11:39 AM

Glynn on September 30, 2008 at 8:31 PM

Glynn, exactly! What’s the point in trashing Gov. Palin? The liberals are doing a fine job of it.

If one is not keen on Palin, perhaps it would be best not to comment or to do so in a constructive manner.

Parker lives not too far from me. I found that article to be somewhat surprising. Normally people around here tend to reserve comment if they disapprove rather than going for the jugular.

The criticism simply seems excessive to me at this point.

Cody1991 on September 30, 2008 at 8:44 PM

Why should anyone keep their opinions on Sarah Palin to themselves. I am not talking about the trashing of Sarah Palin. I am talking about real concerns. Are we not allowed to have them and to voice them. Well, apparently not. I have never trashed Sarah Palin. I abhor the name calling that occurs on the boards I visit, including this one. I don’t do it, not on either side. Kathleen Parker’s column today, and Peggy Noonan’s from several months ago say exactly what I feel. If you do not tow the party line 100%, you simply cannot be a “real conservative” thus you are savaged by those of your own party. How very sad.

Glynn on October 1, 2008 at 12:31 PM

Will and Noonan–two Washington insiders so despised by the Right, they are finishing out their careers sucking up to Lefties. BARF!! I never click links for either of them.

james23 on September 30, 2008 at 11:19 PM

This is categorically untrue. I hold both of these conservatives in very high regard. What have we come to.

Glynn on October 1, 2008 at 12:33 PM

One other note to the person who told me never to mention William F. Buckley and George Will in the same sentence. These two men were dear friends. When WFB died, George Will wrote one of the most poignant eulogies to him I ever read. I truly believe that Buckley would be saddened to see what is being said about George Will on these pages.

Glynn on October 1, 2008 at 12:46 PM

Glynn on October 1, 2008 at 12:46 PM

Look what has happened to NR. It is not what it was and is on the path to irrelevance.

Fuquay Steve on October 1, 2008 at 1:10 PM

Where are Obama’s medical records. Maybe his drung use left him with something the do not want us to know about.

davod on October 1, 2008 at 1:56 PM

Can we get a troll filter here – one where we add usernames to a list such that their posts did not appear? e.g. Click on user “Rywall” and add him to an ignore list. I swear it would save me so much time – it would reduce some posts to about 8 commenters.

zmrzlina on October 1, 2008 at 6:09 PM

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