Look, clearly I cannot dispute what any of you are saying about the bad interviews, because they WERE bad; otherwise I would not be proffering advice to change course completely.
But let me insert some objective reality into the discussion before the waltz on Palin’s political grave gets too far along.
Sarah Palin is obviously not the nitwit many of you are making her out to be because she has performed very well in debates and interviews in the past. Her political accomplishments have been, by any measure, impressive.
The question is: Does this new appointment place her out of her league? Has she now been promoted to the level of her incompetence?
Performing poorly in a broadcast interview is like falling off a bike, let me tell you. I’ve been interviewed on things I knew a lot about and came off looking like a complete idiot. (Many of you will object, “but Joe, you ARE a complete idiot.” To which I must say: Agreed, but I came off as a much MORE COMPLETE idiot than I could possibly be). The reason for my poor performance was always related to psychic stress: nerves, fear, forgetfulness.
We see this all the time in our elected officials who are, at least nominally, all human. Remember Bush’s “hard work” debate in 2004? Remember Obama’s “57 states”?
When Palin can’t even say which newspapers she reads, there is definite evidence of such stress. I submit that the stress is directly related to commands that she not stray from the party line about anything, and she had not yet been briefed on the official McCain position on appropriate newspapers.
That exchange is a great symbol (thanks to Zimzo for sending it) of how thoroughly the McCain campaign geniuses have dissolved the savor from the salt of their best asset.
What remains to be seen is which Sarah Palin shows up Thursday night. She is the one who has kept McCain competitive in the race. (By way of example, I would be writing about the presidential campaign 95% less frequently if she was not on the ticket). Barring a major misstep by Barack Obama, Sarah Palin is probably the only factor that will determine whether McCain’s effort gets one final big bump in the polls.
And ironically, her performance will depend on whether she can loosen up.
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Sorry for missing the joke, but since you seem to think Palin is qualified to be a VP candidate, then I just figured you were being straight up with the Riggins suggestion!
I understand your not wanting to read the rest of my post. Don’t want to confuse the issue with facts.
Stone,
Sanity?’s comment is classic proof of the liberal mindset. He missed my spoof just before that. They believe ANYTHING that is outlandish and just can’t comprehend the truth. Don’t use reason or logic on these people-they just don’t get it. If liberals had a sense of humor, they would be able to understand this joke: Obama!
Sanity?
Get your 9 year old to write for Biden, will ya? Or is he/she/it already doing that? Ha!