Jul
Say Goodbye to Palin
Shortly before Sarah Palin was introduced as John McCain’s running mate for the 2008 election, I had heard rumors she was on a short list. Even after she was announced, I was excited about the Alaska Governor. She seemed to be conservative and add something exciting to the Republican ticket. That excitement quickly got old, but still spiced up the ticket because of the boring, non-conservative that was the GOP nominee.
Since the election, Mrs. Palin has continued to desire the spotlight. She obviously wants to run for President in 2012, but I feel she has neither the experience nor the knowledge to do so. Now, she quits as Alaska’s Governor part way through her term. That’s not really going to bolster confidence in her as a leader. The media continues to give her face time, as they believe she hurts the GOP, and I have to agree. Peggy Noonan says in an excellent op-ed in the WSJ today:
“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.
…What the mainstream media wants is not to kill her but to keep her story going forever. She hurts, as they say, the Republican brand, with her mess and her rhetorical jabberwocky and her careless causing of division. Really, she is the most careless sower of discord since George W. Bush, who fractured the party and the movement that made him. Why wouldn’t the media want to keep that going?
Mrs. Palin, please step out of the spotlight and turn it over to someone can really bring conservative ideas back to the Republican Party. You had great potential but fell flat on your face when the lights came on and real questions were asked.
I agree with Nathan Moore:
As a Republican who very much wants to win and regain our rightful place as the governing party of this great nation, I shudder that my compatriots are with great gusto throwing every ideological egg they own into the skipping movement that is Palinade. It’s going to skip us right off the cliff, waving that conservative flag all the way down to the canyon floor.
