Palin Says - "Would Not Have Ordered Robocalls"
Palin says if she had her way they wouldn't be doing robocalls.
She has started talking to all kinds of media on her own and is not on message all the time. Looks to me like with 2 weeks left we are going to see Mooselini do an "Edwards" to McCain and try to set herself up as best she can for 2012.
Trying to repair her image is all she will do other than the speeches she is told to make just watch.
An believe me she wants to be President. This lengthy New Yorker article on her vetting and campaigning for the job thru conservative pundits like that idiot Bill Kristol is quite revealing.
Palin may be an idiot but she is a highly ambitious one....I am afraid we are going to see more of her....unless the folks back home deal with the Troopergate results in the Legislature.
Wasn't Palin dinged for abuse of power?
October 20, 2008 12:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
That's an interesting report. McCain defended the robocalling strategy just this morning. If you start to lose your VP pick, it's probably not a great sign.
I'm one of those who believe Palin isn't inherently stupid. Her success in Alaskan politics attests to that. (Although increasingly I do wonder about her husband's role behind the scenes in that rise to power.) I think she's currently woefully uninformed when it comes to national issues, though, and she just wasn't prepared to be thrust into the national spotlight like this. If she could remedy that over the next few years, she could become a powerful figure on the national scene. (Because of her ideological extremism, that worries me. But the realist in me can't help but recognize the possibility.)
The immediate danger to that future is if her association with this campaign damages her future viability beyond repair. It may be that she's starting to recognize that.
October 20, 2008 12:30 AM | Reply | Permalink
tbdh wrote " and she just wasn't prepared to be thrust into the national spotlight like this."
I think you've hit on something, Joe the Plumber, wasn't prepared.
It seems everyone who gets identified by McCain, is unprepared for the havoc created by his association. God help us all.
John don't come knocking around my door, I don't want to see your face no more.
October 20, 2008 12:41 AM | Reply | Permalink
Song about Palin?
ARTIST: The Guess Who
TITLE: American Woman
American woman, I said get way
American woman, listen what I say
Don't come here hanging around my door
Don't want to see your face no more
I don't need your war machines
I don't need your ghetto scenes
Colored lights can hypnotize
Sparkle someone else's eyes
Now woman, get away from me
American woman, mama let me be
October 20, 2008 12:46 AM | Reply | Permalink
Awesome song and comparison
October 20, 2008 10:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the pattern you point to is absolutely right. This whole Joe the Plumber thing is an obvious attempt to "re-Palinize" his campaign. He wants the Palin buzz without the hangover. It's just a serious of gimmicks. And I'm starting to think Palin doesn't want to be relegated in the history books to the status of a McCain campaign gimmick.
October 20, 2008 12:59 AM | Reply | Permalink
I don't think she's stupid ....... but I don't think she is intelligent, either. If that makes sense. She's not stupid the same way George W. Bush is not stupid. But when you don't have intellectual curiosity, a sense of the 'big picture,' the ability to listen, the ability to understand the contours or context of a question even if you don't know the answer, or the ability to express yourself coherently (or perhaps to think coherently?), you cannot be called intelligent -- even if you're very 'smart.'
I think she will happily toss McCain to the wolves - before or after the election, whatever works best. For one thing, that has been her pattern all along -- being supported and lifted up by someone (including Murkowski and Stevens) and then ditching them, or walking on top of them, to get to the next height.
Long term, however -- I should never underestimate the doctrinaire Republicans, but I think she is a 'flash in the pan' She reveals her (significant) flaws more glaringly than GWB, so in that sense she's not as good a tool for that those powerful people want. And if more Republicans listen to folks like Colin Powell, perhaps that party won't be so doctrinaire, in which case she's not going to be nearly so attractive. I remember Republicans who used to think and listen and contribute seriously to problem-solving. Really. Of course, I'm very old and it was quite a while ago....
October 20, 2008 8:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
Bingo!! Edwards did it to Kerry bit behind the scenes...
October 20, 2008 10:24 AM | Reply | Permalink