Conservatives Criticize Palin Pick

miteegirl — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 10:06:31 -0500

It seems that Obama supporters are not the only ones shaking their heads in disbelief regarding Palin:

Is Sarah Palin qualified to be vice president? Most conservatives say yes, on the grounds that something that feels so good could not possibly be wrong. But a few commentators, like George Will, Charles Krauthammer, David Frum and Ross Douthat demur, suggesting in different ways that she is unready.

Ross Douthat is calling her "Sarah the Unready".

And Richard Cohen is not mincing words. At all.

McCain has turned ugly. His dishonesty would be unacceptable in any politician, but McCain has always set his own bar higher than most. He has contempt for most of his colleagues for that very reason: They lie. He tells the truth. He internalizes the code of the McCains -- his grandfather, his father: both admirals of the shining sea. He serves his country differently, that's all -- but just as honorably. No more, though.

I am one of the journalists accused over the years of being in the tank for McCain. Guilty. Those doing the accusing usually attributed my feelings to McCain being accessible. This is the journalist-as-puppy school of thought: Give us a treat, and we will leap into a politician's lap.

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.

McCain was going to fix all that. He was going to look the American
people in the eyes and say, not me. I will not lie to you. I am John
McCain, son and grandson of admirals. I tell the truth.

But Joy Behar knew better. And so McCain lied about his lying and
maybe thinks that if he wins the election, he can -- as he did in South Carolina -- renounce who he was and what he did and resume his old persona. It won't work. Karl Marx got one thing right -- what he said about history repeating itself.
Once is tragedy, a second time is farce. John McCain is both.

If the rapture does come I'm

LiviaIndica — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 03:10:15 -0500

If the rapture does come I'm hoping and planning to be left behind. Maybe after the fundies are gone we can help this planet heal and practice love for our fellow humans.

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Conservatives Criticize Palin Pick

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