George Will appears to be the latest conservative expression doubts about Sarah Palin:
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.
Appearing at a Senate Press Secretaries Association reception at the Cornerstone Government Affairs office, Will offered a harsh assessment of John McCain’s running mate.
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. But his sympathies only extended so far.
This does come from The Hufffington Post, so, you know, take it for what it’s worth, but Will’s reported comments are consistent with what he said right after Palin was selected:
The man who would be the oldest to embark on a first presidential term has chosen as his possible successor a person of negligible experience.
Will went on to say this in that column:
By his selection of Palin, he got the enthusiasm of the base. But what has he got in Palin? In coming days he and we will learn from a stern teacher, experience.
And, so far, experience has been fairly rough on the former beauty queen.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:57 pm
By selecting Palin, McCain got someone who combines the arrogance and crookedness of NIXON, with the intelligence of a cow pie.
Alaskans have been joking about her as “Tammy Faye Palin” for a while. Now the Nation can pile on.
Perhaps this is progress in an oblique manner, since a woman candidate can be as skewered by friend and foe alike, just as men have been who dared to enter the political arena.
This election will likely record how McCain blew this race by picking this “trophy Veep” gimmick girl.
The lesson is that America clearly needs political reform. The nominating process is too long, and too expensive, so that all we now get are raving lunatics and megalomaniacs.
The Left dominated networks could help mollify the damage that they have done as enablers of the current two party farce, by including alternative party candidates in a virtual manner, so that the alternative candidates such as Baldwin, Nader and Barr could be seen and heard in near real time as the Commission on Presidential Debates rigged event is being broadcast.
October 1st, 2008 at 11:12 pm
“Tammy Faye” has an 80% approval rating by the Alaskans. I would guess that the jokers you are quoting are the ones she ran out of State House.
Your opinion of crookedness and arrogance is not shared by her constituents, just by the people who are afraid of her honesty and strength of character.
And Biden is is qualified?
October 2nd, 2008 at 10:26 pm
George Will, your intellectual slip is showing with your lack of appreciation for Sarah Palin. She is a doer, you are an observer; she is out there where life happens, you are in your tower where life is excluded; she is one of us, you are not; she executes, you write; she has common sense, you have complicated and cumbersome intellect; she has done many good things as an executive, you have written many good things as a writer - but this is not one of them.
October 10th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
As always, George Will is right on target with his political observations. Sarah Palin is a political disaster.
October 17th, 2008 at 5:31 am
George Will is mad because Palin is the textbook definition of Conservative. Will seems to think that we need to redefine “conservatism”, which is exactly why he backed John McCain from the beginning. We DON’T need to redefine conservatism, it is perfect the it is and the way it always has been. Do you wanna know what you get when pine for these more moderate, or as I like to call them “lukewarm”, conservatives? You get $700 billion dollar bailouts, think GWB. When he came into office in ‘01, he was conservative, but he quickly became McCainesque and now we are bailing criminal CEO’s out of their self-inflicted messes. Conservatism doesn’t do that! So go ahead Will, move conservatism to the left and then watch it die. Remember, Conservatism always wins out in the end. Sorry Mr. Will, you are DEAD WRONG!
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