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And it was just yesterday that Bill Kristol, declaring himself "aware of some of her limitations" (say, if he'd tell us which limitations he's aware of, maybe we could help him flesh out his list), nevertheless declared his conviction --
that she should have a chance to compete and make her case. In this, I seem to differ from many of my friends in the mainstream media and the Republican establishment. They tend not only to dislike and disdain Palin, they also want to bury her chances now as a presidential possibility. What are they so scared of?
"For psychological and sociological reasons too deep for me to grasp," wrote Bill (a man whose entire "career," for want of a better word, can be seen as a crusade for crowning as the World's All-Time Dumbest Cluck), "a good chunk of elite America hates Sarah Palin and what they've decided she stands for." He concluded, "If you have an anti-mainstream-media and anti-GOP-establishment bone in your body, it's hard not to root for her at least a bit."
Actually, Bill, Princess Sarah's biggest rooters, now turned deepest mourners, are card-carrying members of the mainstream media, not to mention the GOP. The
Arizona Daily Star's David Fitzsimmons has gathered a representative sampling of them above.
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UPDATE: How Many Invitations Is Palin Getting To Campaign For Vulnerable Republicans?More Republicans are requesting Palin
not campaign for them include Lee Terry (R-NE), Frank Wolf (R-VA), Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), Dave Reichert (R-WA).
Several other lawmakers indicated a wariness about accepting help from Palin, but did not want to criticize the GOP’s vice presidential candidate from last year. They said Palin could hurt them by firing up Democrats.
An unnamed GOP lawmaker representing a district that Obama carried in 2008 told The Hill that if Palin came into his district, his opponent would “probably be doing a dance of joy.”
The head of the House Democrats’ campaign arm said he’d welcome Palin’s involvement in the 2010 campaign.
“We hope that she will be part of the future debate on the direction of the country,” said Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC).
Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Roy Blunt (R-MO), on the other hand, do want Palin campaigning for them. When asked, Grassley, who is leading GOP efforts against health care reform in the Senate said, "The answer is, if she can raise a lot of money for me, yes... [A]t three events I spent with her in Iowa during the last campaign, she had bigger turnouts than McCain had.” Presumably as long as Grassley keeps Palin in Steve King's western part of the state-- where voters have
no problem re-electing a KKK fanatic over and over-- he won't be hurt by Palin's presence... as long as there's no TV coverage.
Labels: David Fitzsimmons, Sarah Palin, William Kristol
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