Palin on the Hugh Hewitt radio show blamed the media for a lack of ethics and she blamed the media for catching her off guard on her Pakistan comment, and Katie Couric is loathed by the right wing media for being too tough on Palin. Charlie Gibson too, with those glasses meanly perched at the tip of his nose.
Even if the media was being extra tough on Palin, shouldn't she be able to handle it without getting flustered and without pointing fingers?
Isn't it better to suck it up and shut up? Would the Mavericky Ones eliminate the media if they got into office, or would they just do everything in secret out of the eye of the media?
Watch Palin's past debates when she was running for gov.
Let's hope that by tomorrow Palin's figured this out.
Palin has become a distraction. Funny, wasn't that the reason she was chosen? She was chosen to be a be a beautiful distraction, to pull people away from the issues. But now she's turned into an ugly distraction, showing a lack of depth and knowledge. The Maverick gambled and didn't put country first.
Politico: But as September turns to October—Wednesday marks 34 days to the Nov. 4 election—it is clear McCain himself is to blame for the most urgent problems. His snap decision to throw himself into the bailout debate has proven disastrous, since his efforts looked late and half-hearted, and many in the GOP ignored his pleas in Monday’s House vote.
And his selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, initially a political boon, has become a distraction inside and out of the campaign, with top staff now sidelined trying to avoid a debate disaster on Thursday night, officials close to the campaign say.
But some fundamental troubles are outside his control. The forceful emergence of the sour economy as a dominant issue has Republicans worried in general.
Jeff Frederick, chairman of the Republican Party of Virginia, said he was disappointed with McCain’s early performance in the debate when the focus was on the economy. “He really left a lot on the table while Barack Obama was really kind of hitting him.”
The depth of her naivety:
John McCain's nomination of Palin has turned out to be what can be called an attempt to pull off the Full Nixon. Forty years ago, Richard Nixon figured out that there were a lot of votes to be won by tapping into widespread resentment of "arrogant elites," who thought they were smarter and better informed than their fellow Americans.
For months now, McCain has been hammering away at this theme in regard to Barack Obama, whose Ivy League education is supposed to have infused him with the arrogance and elitism that makes him contemptuous of ordinary folk like, for example, Sarah Palin.
Palin has spent almost her whole life in a very small town in a sparsely populated and extremely isolated state. For reasons that remain obscure, she attended five colleges in six years where, if her public performance to date is any indication, she seems to have learned nothing.
If Palin knows anything at all about national politics or foreign affairs or history or economics or almost anything else one would want a president to know something about, she has till now kept that fact remarkably well hidden.
The island in Alaska that CAN see Russia.
As a matter of fact, no Alaska governor in the state’s nearly 50 year history has ever visited the remote outpost that still has little running water. We were curious what the Little Diomeders thought about Palin’s claim of foreign policy experience because of the proximity of Siberia. Interestingly, many of these Alaskans had no idea who Sarah Palin was! It turns out they have no TV on the island, and therefore, many don’t follow the news.
The island’s mayor has heard of her though. No American mayor resides in a city closer to Russia than Andrew Milligrock, and he says being two miles from Russia doesn’t give him any foreign policy expertise.
