Sarah Palin, too weird.

She [Sarah Palin] went on the trail a sensation but demonstrated in the ensuing months that she was not ready to go national and in fact never would be.

...In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.

..."The elites hate her." The elites made her. It was the elites of the party, the McCain campaign and the conservative media that picked her and pushed her. The base barely knew who she was. It was the elites, from party operatives to public intellectuals, who advanced her and attacked those who said she lacked heft. She is a complete elite confection. She might as well have been a bonbon.

"She makes the Republican Party look inclusive." She makes the party look stupid, a party of the easily manipulated.

..."Now she can prepare herself for higher office by studying up, reading in, boning up on the issues." Mrs. Palin's supporters have been ordering her to spend the next two years reflecting and pondering. But she is a ponder-free zone.

..."The media did her in." Her lack of any appropriate modesty did her in.

...It's not a time to be frivolous, or to feel the temptation of resentment, or the temptation of thinking next year will be more or less like last year, and the assumptions of our childhoods will more or less reign in our future. It won't be that way.

We are going to need the best.

That's just Engineer in drag.

If Sarah were elevated to the Presidency, she 'd surround herself with pro-freedom advisors
to handle the complexities, the important thing being that we were going in the right direction,
not pulled into Marxist despotism.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

If Sarah were elevated to the Presidency, she 'd surround herself with pro-freedom advisors
to handle the complexities, the important thing being that we were going in the right direction,
not pulled into Marxist despotism.

disregarding all the partisan rhetoric in the above statement, most conservatives were insistent that having advisers wasn't enough, in their opinion obama was not well versed in some policies to be the president

so it's all right for your candidate, but not for the other

If Sarah were elevated to the Presidency, she 'd surround herself with pro-freedom advisors
to handle the complexities, the important thing being that we were going in the right direction,
not pulled into Marxist despotism.

If Sarah were elevated to the Presidency, she 'd surround herself with pro-freedom advisors
to handle the complexities, the important thing being that we were going in the right direction,
not pulled into Marxist despotism.

But I haven't seen even that much managerial ability.

I think the more likely senario would be that Palin would find herself surrounded by advisors
who would run the country by proxy.

I'll take a President who can present a clear vision of his desired
future over one who can spit out only soundbites.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

If Sarah were elevated to the Presidency, she 'd surround herself with pro-freedom advisors
to handle the complexities, the important thing being that we were going in the right direction,
not pulled into Marxist despotism.

But I haven't seen even that much managerial ability. I think the more likely senario would be that Palin would find herself surrounded by advisors who would run the country by proxy. I'll take a President who can present a clear vision of his desired future over one who can spit out only soundbites.

I'll take a President who can present a clear vision of his desired future over one who can spit out only soundbites.

OmSigDAVID wrote:

If Sarah were elevated to the Presidency, she 'd surround herself with pro-freedom advisors
to handle the complexities, the important thing being that we were going in the right direction,
not pulled into Marxist despotism.

But I haven't seen even that much managerial ability. I think the more likely senario would be that Palin would find herself surrounded by advisors who would run the country by proxy. I'll take a President who can present a clear vision of his desired future over one who can spit out only soundbites.

. . . incoherent soundbites.

She packs an overabundance of gibberish into her sentences and paragraphs leaving most people to wonder what message, if any, she was attempting to deliver. She requires a chorus of conservative interpreters to tell us what she meant and how stupid, hateful, sexist, and partisan the rest of are for calling her incoherent.

All leaders have advisors. What is important to consider is who, and their quality, will be advising. Palin is very ignorant, and really not very smart. She doesn't read, and doesn't prepare for anything. At the convention, she read a speech prepared by a Bush writer. Usually, she shows up unprepared. We can't trust her to have good advisors.