Palin’s consolation prize
The governor wins Conservative of the Year honors
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, conservative of the year
(AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
She’s not the vice president–elect, but at least “Sarah Palin didn’t come away from the 2008 campaign empty-handed,” said Alex Koppelman in Salon. The “right-wing magazine” Human Events named her their “Conservative of the Year.” And as an “extra special honor,” the announcement was written by Ann Coulter, who praised her “beauteous Sarah” for livening up the 2008 race and giving the McCain ticket a dose of real conservatism.
And for “annoying all the right people”—mainly liberals and the Obama-loving media, said Ann Coulter in Human Events. It’s enough this year that “Palin was a kick in the pants, she energized conservatives, and she made liberal heads explode.” Now she ought to spend the next eight years growing “older and wiser,” and preparing for 2016.
If Palin’s got a shot in 2012, “she takes the shot,” said Robert Stacy McCain in The Other McCain. As she notes in an accompanying interview in Human Events, John McCain messed up by not letting her do more interviews. A “former journalist” herself, Palin “knows more about media than most of the Republican ‘media experts’,” and she won’t make the same mistake when it’s her turn.
“As I recall, Palin seemed to run into trouble when she started doing media interviews,” said Steve Benen in The Washington Monthly online. Not everyone will agree on what went wrong for her in 2008, but blaming it on a lack of interviews is an “unusual idea” by any standard.
Palin’s many detractors miss that she’s got “the mark of a star,” said John O’Sullivan in The Wall Street Journal. In the four moments that counted—her rollout speech in Ohio, the GOP convention, the VP debate, and Saturday Night Live—she rose to the occasion. With her “obvious intelligence,” drive, and “Reaganesque likability,” Palin has the makings of a Margaret Thatcher. If liberals—and “conservative snobs”—“can’t see it, then so much the worse for them.”
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Posted by rayy, Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 8:19 am I think she annoyed (and scared) a lot more people than that!!! On SNL, she was a dead fish. I give her credit for being there, but come on O"Sullivan, even McCain was funnier! SHe couldn't handle an unscripted question, as shown by the lowly Katie Couric. BTW, what has happened at the Journal? Murdoch scaling back "facts-based reporting"?
Posted by lwaa, Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 8:56 am She "energized the conservatives", and what did it get her - consideration as the reason why McCain lost the election. She also energized the brighter thinking americans who realized electing her as vice president was a very scary idea. I hope she does run again. The election season in 2012 will be much more entertaining, and probably not as intense. The contest will be over as soon as she's nominated.
Posted by Gayle Mattern, Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 11:57 am She's trying to rewrite history just as shamelessly as Bush and Cheney. It was the interviews that got her into trouble in the first place. She came off as a brainless small town beauty pagent contestant, eyes glazed over while she searched for a programmed response. The last interview was the best, though- the one she gave in front of the turkey chipper. Talk about influential- I wonder how many converted vegetarians there were this Thanksgiving!
Posted by John Figliozzi, Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 12:57 pm We have real problems now and need real people with real solutions to address them. The country seems to finally get that after its ridiculous dalliance with the empty-headed, out of this depth GW Bush. The only way Palin comes back in this environment is if she somehow adds real and significant intellectual and practical heft to the superficial and ideological gloss we've seen thus far.
Posted by Tycho, Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 1:07 pm She's a first class, third rate bottom feeder. Only something like this would excite the Republican Party. Unlike the river Platte, her mind is both an inch wide and an inch deep. After eight years of ultra concervative Republican mediocrity the though of this bimboid rising higher than the governorship of Alaska is truly frightening. People like Sarah Palin and the criminals of Wall Street as well as those of the banking mafia are destroying everything good about our country.
Posted by Doug Pierson, Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 1:23 pm Let me get this straight, Ann Coulter, who is one of the most venomous people that I can imagine is supporting the woman who supports killing animals from aircraft, and is not the sharpest tack on the floor. Maybe they are both on the same mission from god. Doesn't anyone see a problem with this?
Posted by christian , Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 2:31 pm sarah palin is a moron. more interviews would have merely provided more entertainment. also her children are drug addicts and promiscuous in direct contrast to her 'conservatism' . she is a joke and so is the republican party for the last 10 years at least. they have destroyed the United States and should be disbanded as traitors to the Constitution. George W Bush is a traitor plain and simple. Anyone paying big oil our tax money in any form and ignoring global warming should be executed for mass murder. Deal with it you slow-witted greedwhores
Posted by Michael J. Gorman, Tuesday, December 23, 2008, 4:11 pm I feel sorry for Palin's kids. She's dumb and ignorant enough to think she can do the job. Ignornce is bliss, and Palin is a perfect example of this
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