The Media Is All Over Palin

I personally think that the repubs from McCains camp are piling on her to try and prevent her from going any farther in national politics.

My personal opinion and prediction is this...
IF Ted Stevens wins the senate race and gets re-elected, he will be tossed out of the Senate because of his conviction.

IF that happens, then Sarah Palin should make a deal with her Lt Governor, and resign as governor.
The Lt Gov will then appoint her to Stevens seat, where she will serve out his term.
In 2012, she will have the experience to run again, with Bobby Jendal as her running mate.
IMO, they are the 2 up and comers in the repub party right now.

There's a special election if Stevens goes out; she can't just appoint herself. Besides, she would be a tiny fish amongst a bunch of sharks in the Senate; useless and weak, for she isn't intelligent enough for the job.

Cycloptichorn

...Bobby Jendal..up and comers in the repub party right now.

I wouldn't underestimate her. Her crowds were larger and more enthusiastic than McCain's. That's usually a good sign for a politician.

She was clarly selected too early in her career this time around, but four years is a long time to learn the craft. I think she's a major force in the Republican party right now, and it's up to her to blow it.

i agree with you about jindal.
he seems to be a moderate, rational and effective governor.

What have we done to deserve this, this media blitz that the astute Andrea Mitchell has labeled “The Victory Tour”?

I suppose it will be recorded as among political history’s ironies that Palin was brought in to help John McCain. I can’t blame feminists who might draw amusement from the fact that a woman managed to both cripple the male she was supposed to help while gleaning an almost Elvis-sized following for herself. Mac loses, Sarah wins big-time was the gist of headlines.

I feel a little sorry for John. He aimed low and missed.

What will ambitious politicos learn from this? That frayed syntax, bungled grammar and run-on sentences that ramble on long after thought has given out completely are a candidate’s valuable traits?

And how much more of all that lies in our future if God points her to those open-a-crack doors she refers to? The ones she resolves to splinter and bulldoze her way through upon glimpsing the opportunities, revealed from on high.

What on earth are our underpaid teachers, laboring in the vineyards of education, supposed to tell students about the following sentence, committed by the serial syntax-killer from Wasilla High and gleaned by my colleague Maureen Dowd for preservation for those who ask, “How was it she talked?”

" My concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska’s investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars."

And, she concluded, “never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or a continent, I just don’t know about this issue.”

It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any.

(A cynic might wonder if Wasilla High School’s English and geography departments are draped in black.)

Matt Lauer asked her about her daughter’s pregnancy and what went into the decision about how to handle it. Her “answer” did not contain the words “daughter,” “pregnancy,” “what to do about it” or, in fact, any two consecutive words related to Lauer’s query.

I saw this as a brief clip, so I don’t know whether Lauer recovered sufficiently to follow up, or could only sit there, covered in disbelief. If it happens again, Matt, I bequeath you what I heard myself say once to an elusive guest who stiffed me that way: “Were you able to hear any part of my question?”

Do u want an accountant who is MODERATELY accurate ?
Do u want a surgeon whose hands are MODERATELY clean ?
Do u want your teenage daughter to be MODERATELY pregnant ?

what I really want is a surgeon wearing a cap.

Bristol Palin is 18, as is her boyfriend of three years, Levi Johnston, a former high school hockey player. Both have dropped out of high school -- she to complete her diploma through correspondence courses, People reports, and he to become an apprentice electrician, he told the AP this fall. They have said they plan to marry in 2009. (Johnston's mother Sherry was arrested earlier this month on felony drug charges for allegedly selling OxyContin.)