Charen Blasts Palin's Possible 2012 Presidential Run..

[HipChick]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/20/mona-charen-sarah-palin-column-townhall-_n_786444.html?ref=tw

Mona Charen has slammed Sarah Palin, calling the former half-term governor "consumed and obsessed by the media." She went on to blast Palin for her lack of experience:

Palin was advised by those who admire her natural gifts to bone up on policy and devote herself to governing Alaska successfully. Instead, she quit her job as governor after two and a half years, published a book (another is due next week), and seemed to chase money and empty celebrity. Now, rather than being able to highlight the accomplishments of Sarah Palin's Alaska, we get "Sarah Palin's Alaska," another cheesy entrant in the reality show genre. She'd so much rather be out dog sledding than in some "dull political office," she tells the audience

Charen questioned the would-be candidate's eagerness to engage in even the smallest of spats:

She should be presiding over meetings on oil and gas leases in the North Slope, or devising alternatives to Obamacare. Every public spat with Dave Letterman or Politico, or the "lamestream media," or God help us, Levi Johnston, diminishes her.

Charen's doubts about Palin include her judgment and possibly her parenting:

Perhaps the former governor should not be blamed for the decisions of her adult daughter. Yet there in the audience we see Sarah and Todd Palin, mugging for the camera and cheering on their unwed-mother daughter as she bumps and grinds to the tune of "Mamma Told Me (Not to Come)." Her parents had advised her, the 20-year-old Bristol told an interviewer, that she had to stay "in character" if she expected to win. Being "in character" apparently meant descending to the vulgarity that "DWTS" peddles on a weekly basis. The momma grizzly was apparently unfazed by -- or, equally disturbing, unaware of -- the indignity. And this is supposed to be a conservative culture warrior?

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On her parenting, I read in the NY Times piece that the same day Trigg had surgery, she left Alaska to head down to the lower 48 for some campaign event? The Wild Ride story was enough, leaving a DS toddler having surgery???..Hmmm

[HipChick]

1. Sarah Paycheck..

:rofl:

[OHdem10]

2. Slowly but surely , Cultural Stars from the Right are bringing

Palin down. Recently Peggy Noonan called Palin a
Nicompoop. It has been a drumbeat in one her columns.
Even Bill Krystol(could be considered the one who
discovered her in the first place) is doing a careful
dance as he seems to be cutting the cord.

In other words, the GOP is looking elsewhere
for Presidential candidate.

[HipChick]

3. I've always thought of her as the Shiny Ballon Boy of Republican politics

while they get a real candidate ready behind the curtains

[OHdem10]

4. Yep, and George Will just added his hit against Palin. If she

was serious about the Presidency she was to have gone
back to Alaska, completed a successful governership
while studying and broadening her knowledge. She
did not do the study and preparation and she quit the
governorship.
Can you get any stronger criticism.

[malaise]

5. But but but

She's more qualified than the current president - isn't that the meme :sarcasm:

[HipChick]

6. Do you see the CNN panel takedown of her this morning..

They shredded her to pieces..if I can find the clip I will post

[malaise]

8. Please do

:hi:

[Catshrink]

7. By all means then, Lady Blah Blah should keep on dog sledding

By her own words: She'd so much rather be out dog sledding than in some "dull political office," she tells the audience.