http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Prominent conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, an early supporter of Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin, said Friday recent interviews have shown the Alaska governor is "out of her league" and should leave the GOP presidential ticket for the good of the party.
The criticism in Parker's Friday column is the latest in a recent string of negative assessments toward the McCain-Palin candidacy from prominent conservatives.

It was fun while it lasted," Parker writes. "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's interview with Couric drew criticism when the Alaska governor was unable to provide an example of when John McCain had pushed for more regulation of Wall Street during his Senate career. Palin also took heat for defending her foreign policy credentials by suggesting Russian leaders enter Alaska airspace when they come to America. Palin was also criticized last week for appearing not to know what the Bush Doctrine is during an interview with Charlie Gibson.

“If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself," Parker also writes. "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."

Parker, who praised McCain's "keen judgment" for picking Palin earlier this month and wrote the Alaska governor is a "perfect storm of God, Mom and apple pie," now says Palin should step down from the ticket.

“Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves," Parker writes. 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."

Parker's comments follow those by prominent conservatives David Brooks, George Will, and David Frum who have all publicly questioned Palin's readiness to be vice president.

"Sarah Palin has many virtues," Brooks wrote in a recent column. "If you wanted someone to destroy a corrupt establishment, she'd be your woman. But the constructive act of governance is another matter. She has not been engaged in national issues, does not have a repertoire of historic patterns and, like President Bush, she seems to compensate for her lack of experience with brashness and excessive decisiveness."

I heard on Anderson Cooper 360 on of the pundits called Bush "a highly functioning moron"
http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/09/26/cooper.rollins.mccain.cnn

Parker this, Parker that.

I wouldn't listen to a damn thing any Parker has to say.

Wait until she has to debate Joe Biden...she's gonna get her ass handed to her.

It may alienate a few folks who love her because she hunts moose and is a woman (even though they, too, know she's not even qualified to run a Subway restaurant), but the other 99.876% of the electorate will see that the sham has ended, and that she's woefully not up to the job.

Fish on...

Todd

Sarah,
you ignorant slut.

" Eat fresh "

Sara the sandwich artist?

I think there's still a chance she backs out. Mark my words. Could happen this week. Romney replaces her on the ticket.

But how will that look? The R's made a big deal about how choosing a VP is the first major decision a Pres makes. Won't this simply show that McCain didn't vet her properly before the decision? Or will it come out that he didn't pick her at all, but rather Rove and Dobson did?

I'm with Stam on this one.

Did you watch the debate?

Yeah.

Ron Paul would BURY these clowns in a three-way face-off.

Preach on brother!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al_y3g77ZsA

I watched it. I don't want to vote for either of these jokers.

You know jokers isn't the right word. They are both stiffs.

It must be that old "better to sit in silence an be thought a fool than open your mouth and remove all doubt" thing.

You gotta be f'n kidding me............the VP pick isn't available for comment? And some of you are going to vote for that ticket?

Have you heard of this Ron Paul guy?

I am a little confused.....

I'm a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight.....

* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you're "exotic, different."
* Grow up in Alaska eating mooseburgers, a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack, you're a radical,unpatriotic Muslim.
* Name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you're a maverick.

* Graduate from Harvard law School and you are unstable.
* Attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you're well-grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate's Health and Human Services committee, spend 2 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works, and Veteran's Affairs committees, you don't have any real leadership experience.
* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you're qualified to become the country's second highest ranking executive.

* I f you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 daughters, all within Protestant churches, you're not a real Christian.
* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your broken and disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you're a Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.
* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state's school system while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant, you're very responsible, (and you eloped!!).

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family's values don't represent America's.
* If your husband is nicknamed "First Dude", with at least one DUI conviction and no college education, who didn't register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, much clearer now.

And the Enquirer has come out with their story:

http://www.nationalenquirer.com/national...celebrity/65481

Wonder which dude she is refering to with the "one inch" finger spread....
Ouch....



I ain't buying the change on either ticket.
just last week the media was entertaining rumors that Biden was going to bail out to make way for Hillary.
Whatever......

It's too late for her to go anywhere, but she's going to be the death of McSame's campaign, which is on life support as it is. When she debates Biden, she'll be so overwhelmingly unable to keep up it will be kinda embarrassing, for all of us.

Fish on...

Todd

You mean like this?

Biden on Obama

Feb. 2007 on Obama's appeal: "I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy. I mean that's a storybook, man."

Or this! More from Biden the statesman.

“I would be honored to run with or against John McCain, because I think the country would be better off.”

What the hell! Will the real Joe Biden please sit down?

This debate ought to be funny as heck! Please tell me again how Sarah is going to embarass us!