A conservative columnist reviews "Going Rogue"

[lothar]

She is a beauty pageant contestant. She looks the part.. but when she opens her mouth her true colors show. She has no business even considering a run for president. If it weren't for Obama on the democratic ticket... I could have easily not voted for McCain.

Are you saying if Clinton had won the nomination you'd vote for her over McCain?

 

[lothar]

This.

She's damaged goods as far as i'm concerned but that's only partially her fault. She was set up to fail by joining the McCain ticket. But she sure can milk the celebrity cow for all it's worth. IMO her best bet is to lend her name and support to an existing Conservative org.

How exactly is it McCain's fault(or someone else who you claim set her up) that Palin couldn't mention a single book or newspaper she reads?

How exactly is it McCain's fault(or someone else who you claim set her up) that Palin doesn't know any supreme court ruling besides Roe v Wade?

I consider it to be fully her fault.

 

[First]

It is truly scary how someone so demonstrably unqualified for office can get so far in politics. I don't see how very many people can support someone who actually quit their job as governor of a state to write a book and go on tour.

 

[dawp]

How exactly is it McCain's fault(or someone else who you claim set her up) that Palin couldn't mention a single book or newspaper she reads?

How exactly is it McCain's fault(or someone else who you claim set her up) that Palin doesn't know any supreme court ruling besides Roe v Wade?

I consider it to be fully her fault.

I'm not sure I agree with that view. The McCain Campaign should have vetted her better as to what her views were and what she knew of national politics. I think McCain would have been better served if he had picked say Kay Bailey Hutchenson, the senator from TX.

 

[shadow9d9]

I'm not sure I agree with that view. The McCain Campaign should have vetted her better as to what her views were and what she knew of national politics. I think McCain would have been better served if he had picked say Kay Bailey Hutchenson, the senator from TX.

McCain should have TOLD her what news she had read... he should have TOLD her that foreign policy is not "I could see russia from my house." he should have TOLD her to read up on basic history of the Supreme Court.

 

[Colt45]

The McCain Campaign should have vetted her better as to what her views were and what she knew of national politics.

That would require knowing something about national politics.

 

[dawp]

That would require knowing something about national politics.

Then she should have been eliminated from consideration early on.

 

[ModerateRepZero]

Then she should have been eliminated from consideration early on.

this is politics....rational considerations are usually subordinate to perceptions.

politics 101

 

[Gonad the Barbarian]

These are the people in your neighborhood:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKKKgua7wQk&feature=player_embedded
If you live near the Ohio book store where Palin was doing her book signing. God help us.

 

[StageLeft]

Pretty much the book is exactly what I thought it would be if that review is accurate and in fact this review also mirrors in vein one that we had before the book came out written by a guy who had not even read it but just guessed about it. All tripe and silly nonsense. But some people lap it up like thirsty dogs.

Anyway 2012 is too early to really talk about anything, but I guarantee she won't make it through the primaries, some far more competent guy who's older will eat her up and spit her out. Keep your mind out of the gutter.

 

[Red Dawn]

Pretty much the book is exactly what I thought it would be if that review is accurate and in fact this review also mirrors in vein one that we had before the book came out written by a guy who had not even read it but just guessed about it. All tripe and silly nonsense. But some people lap it up like thirsty dogs.

Anyway 2012 is too early to really talk about anything, but I guarantee she won't make it through the primaries, some far more competent guy who's older will eat her up and spit her out. Keep your mind out of the gutter.

Well if politics doesn't work out for her she can always be the spokesperson Florida Orange Juice.

 

[dainthomas]

Well if politics doesn't work out for her she can always be the spokesperson Florida Orange Juice.

"The only juice for REAL Americans!"

 

[Lemon law]

I think there is more to it than, "Anyway 2012 is too early to really talk about anything, but I guarantee she won't make it through the primaries, some far more competent guy who's older will eat her up and spit her out."

While I do agree anyone who is competent will eat Palin alive but that could equally apply to someone younger or older, be they or male or female.

The point being Sarah Palin, after being picked by McCain, discovered a demagogic talent she never knew she had. And as she had the entire Republican convention in the palm of her hand as she recited her drill baby drill speech, its acted as a powerful narcotic addiction she has never recovered from. In short, Palin discovered just how far playing to her strong suit could get her.

The problem for Palin is, she has done nothing to shore up her weaknesses, even after discovering her strong suit is not enough to get her enough votes to win. Making her a one trick pony, and voted most likely to be viewed as a uni dimensional
political lightweight able to compete only in the arenas she can define with slogans. As soon as we leave those arenas and deal with real issues, Palin shows her incompetence.

The person who ran the masterful campaign in 2008 was Obama. With Obama perhaps exceeding Palin in natural demagogic talent.

And instead of playing to that demagogic talent, Obama downplayed it while avoiding polarizing slogans like the plague. And the person who badly underestimated Obama was Hillary Clinton, who was the odds on favorite to win the 2008 democratic nomination. Nor was that the Iraq war Hillary had cast the only deciding factor, it was really, IMHO, the aspect that Hillary campaigned on the contention that Obama was not ready and hence unqualified.

And in a sense, Hillary was far better prepared on the issues and knew them far better than Obama. But until Hillary played to the issues, the Obama lead widened.
Once Hillary played to the issues, she started to cut into the Obama lead, but by then, it was too little far to late.

A lesson Palin might take to heart, but its clear Palin has refused to learn anything.

 

[alchemize]

When the updated BS lists come out, Going Rogue is going to be #1, it really passed expectations.

 

[Zebo]

Early in "Going Rogue," she talks in detail about how Exxon exploited the people of Alaska in the Exxon Valdez disaster, and her experience tangling with oil companies taught Palin about how big business colludes with government to create a crony capitalism that harms the common good. And yet, she's incapable of understanding how the uncritically pro-business economic agenda she touts makes all this possible.


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She definitely is not the sharpest knife in the drawer and happy about it. I like her in some ways like between the sheets would work but as president or an intellectual? Hell no.

 

[QuantumPion]

I loathe to agree with the liberal kooks on this board but I have to admit I do not see the appeal of Palin. She is basically the GOP's version of Obama.

 

[Red Dawn]

As a Neocon Kook myself I loathe to agree with the liberal kooks on this board but I have to admit I do not see the appeal of Palin. She is basically the GOP's version of Obama.

Hardly

 

[Siddhartha]

I loathe to agree with the liberal kooks on this board but I have to admit I do not see the appeal of Palin. She is basically the GOP's version of Obama.

How is Ms Palin the GOP's version of Mr Obama?

 

[QuantumPion]

How is Ms Palin the GOP's version of Mr Obama?

She is good at spouting talking points and rallying her base but lacks any real substance. At least that was my impression after seeing the VP debate.