Who wrote the following?

Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League. …

Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there’s not much content there. … If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.

If Palin were a man, we’d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she’s a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true. …

Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.

Do it for your country.

Michael Moore? Keith Olbermann? Howard Dean? Nope. It’s by Kathleen Parker, the stinging, stalwart conservative answer to Maureen Dowd.

Finally, someone gets it… The election can be about experience or personality, but it can’t be about both — and the economic events of the past couple weeks (along with the Georgia-Russia showdown, which is fading from memory) are bringing voters’ attention back to policy more than at any other time in my lifetime.

McCain and Obama both have great stories. War hero vs. biracial kid with a single mom and meager means. Maverick who goes against his party at times, but very publicly, vs. newcomer who’s relatively untested but who echoes Kennedy in both vision and inspiration. Oldest president vs. first black non-white president. But it’s not the stories that matter now, not when gas prices are high, home sales are stagnant, job loss is real, a generation of borrowers is going to be forced to rethink its habits.

Palin, as evidenced by the Couric interview (see previous post) and others, is not up to this task. Democrats know it (and are probably too excited about it), Republicans sense it (but quell it with talk of her “commonness” and that old shattered “glass ceiling”) — the question is, does John McCain care? He may be willing to lose an election to win a war (whatever that means), but is he willing to risk the nation’s leadership in the hands of a person who makes “George W. Bush look like Cicero,” if God forbid something should happen to him?

Tags: John McCain, Kathleen Parker, Sarah Palin

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