Kristol Compares Palin to Obama
By Don | July 5, 2009
Bill Kristol defends Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and compares her experience level to that of Barack Obama.
From the Politico
Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol, who's emerged as one of Sarah Palin's highest profile conservative boosters, defended the Alaska governor's decision to step down today in a panel appearance on "Fox News Sunday," and compared her level of experience to that of Barack Obama, who served less that one full term in the Senate before being elected president.
Kristol, who argued that Obama had markedly limited accomplishments in his brief time in the Senate before kicking off his presidential run, said, "In 2004, Obama had given one good speech at the Democratic convention. And Palin gave one good speech in 2008."
Palin, said, Kristol, is making a sound decision in "a world where people don't value years of experience in Washington, or even conceivably two terms as governor of Alaska."
"It's high risk," he said of Palin's move to resign her office after serving less than one full term. "She's really all-in here. She has no safety net." Comparing her team's national experience unfavorably to those of Bush, McCain and Romney, he said that it will also come down to Palin's personal appeal and talents: "She's really just getting out there and it's going to depend on her talents and abilities."
Kristol added: "I do think the attacks were amazing. She had been the object of more hated, I would say, and more hatred thats been accepted by the mainstream media than any politician I could remember."
Assessing the movie, he concluded, "She had had an interesting political career and I don't rule her out. The odds are against her, but the odds were against her anyway."
But Palin's move has perpelxed conservatives with former presidential candidate Mike Hucjabee telling the Politico that "You don't call a press conference to create questions, you call one to resolve them." and Karl Rove adding that "She can't be a conventional candidate, she never has been."
If Palin thinks that her resignation will slow or stop the media attention on her family or the probes into her governorship, she is more politically naive than everyone thought and may be her undoing if she enters the presidential race in 2012 as expected.
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This is another sign that the programming the Dr. Sanjay Gupta did on Mr. Kristol while Kristol worked for TIME is paying off.
I’d rather you quoted Charles Krauthammer than this nabob Krystal-meth. Who cares what he thinks? He’s a neoCON just like Rove “the architect” of the Republicans-rule-for-a-generation Congress he so cleverly arranged. And wasn’t it Huckleberry who connived with “Honest John” (hahaha) McCain to keep the best-qualified & most-electable, aka Romney, from the R’nomination?
Sarah was a mayor and a governor, both are executive positions. Mr. No Birth Certificate/No Medical Records, the eminently uh umm mmm uhh mmm uhh uhh unqualified/unexperienced Great Orator red cell illegal president, who had no experience other than being half black and 3/4 acorn.
But that’s all you need if you’re a neo-COMM, aka new Democrat.
As for Sarah, she should follow Krauthammer’s recommendations and get some serious briefings, debate lessons, and speech 101-404 class before steppin out again. If not, she will confirm her ignorance and poor judgement. But that didn’t stop Barry, did it?
OR she could switch parties and spout the D/Cuban party line. Then she would be ooh-ed and ahh-ed over as The Great Wymmin Hope.
I don’t know about you, but ahh stiyl remember a place called Hope!!! {:>)
William Kristol is a nincompoop neocon.
Post 3’s “Kristol-meth” and “nabob” are also most suitable apelations
Aaahhhh TK, is it possible for you to write something intelligent and drop the childish name calling?
As for Palin, here are certain facts about her: She has a birth certificate.
She has experience in politics.
There’s no question as to what she has said when she finishes speaking.
She is American and loves her country.
Her life is an open book although many have tried to add fiction to that book.
She is pro-life and has proven it!
I could go on and on but sufice it to say, the short list above is just a few of the reasons why those who hate America are so afraid of her!!
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Palin? I didn’t mention a word about Palin.
I could not care less about Palin.
And, it would take someone way out in the nether reaches of far-right field to conclude that people who have a distaste for Palin for whatever reason(s) “hate America”.
And, Kristol IS a neocon nincompoop - and I’m sure even you can see where Dick Cheney and his neocon cabalists have gotten us!
Just got back from vacation and just heard the Palin news. Wow.
Maybe she is planning on leaving the republican party to become an independant, or something like that. I was sure that after sandford’s affair that there would be no GOP’ers to survive that debacle.
Possibly it was really affecting her family in a negative way. I think she cares allot about her family to make a move that would save them.
Regardless, our thoughts and prayers are with her and her family.
Sarah Palin has consistently outsmarted her political opponents. She loves her state and her country, values life, truth and a no nonsense approach to governance. She’ll prevail. As Jane citizen perhaps an opportunity to sue a few slanderous zealots will serve to diminish the diatribes. Sarah will be back, you can count on that.
D.O.
I think that Palin is now embarking on her campaign for the Presidential nomination. She will need to travel the US, study up on foreign policy, put together a team that will give her better advice and counsel than McCains did -and keep in the public eye in a positive way.
She could have done a little but not much of this in Alaska -and she would have been falling short of the mark as Governor.
Accordingly she has done the honourable thing and resigned that post -unlike Obama who did nothing in the Senate but accept his pay as he campaigned for the presidency.
I am neither for nor against palin -but I do believe she has a tremendous opportunity to prepare herself for the job -and be seen to be doing so.
It would be foolish in the extreme to discount a person of her talent and determination!
More power to her!
Jock Williams
Yogi 13
Kristol is done—stick a fork in him. The heir to the Godfather of Trotskyites .. er neo-cons .. Irving. And take Fred Barnes with him—Freddie should stick to baseball commentary.
As to Karl Rove, check my article on the bastard (as in Voltaire’s Bastards)...
I agree with others above who say Sarah did the honorable thing in resigning.
In my 12 Step program for government recovery, one step is that no runner take more than three paid days off to actively job hunt. If they continue abusing the privilege they have written for themselves, they would eventually be expelled from Con-gress.
That law would have immediately rid Con-gress of such hangers-on as Hilly, Barry, Honest John, and a half dozen more who have virtual tenure as our “servants.”
Same with missing work. Where is your note from a doctor, senator/congresshomie?
Back to Sarah. She knows what honor is, she knows what America is, she knows what evil is.
The neo-COMMs hate and fear her and will throw everything at her, including that flaccid about-as-funny-as-sen.-frankenstein room-temp (global cooling) IQ comedy king David Letterperson.
They hate her because they are all unreal people and she is real.
How appropriate that Al/i Frankenstein is now a senator, as the neo-COMMs are twofaced unAmerican creations or cretins of the NYC-DC-Harvard-Yale axis of evil that dominates government (W, Clingon, Poppy Boosh, et al) and produces such “smartest guy in the world, only guy who can fix this!” as Dr. NoKnow, Yiddle Timmy Geithner.
Really.
Sarah does need some solid tactical and strategic advice. She cannot wing it, she will not get a free pass/mandatory swoon/thrill up the leg for inane statements and Generalized Cluelessness Disorder as #44 does.
I suggest she avoid the Beltway Boys (except CK), C. Rover etc., anyone over the rank of lt. col. or master sergeant, and find some real people like herself who know the answer to ‘how many beans make five?’
Sarah is to “conservatives” what Obama is/was to “progressives”—someone to hope on.
The fallacy is that any particular politician or “leader” can actually change the system. The technocrats run things—people like Larry Summers and Cass Sunstein. People we do not elect but are appointed “advisers” to the current royal court. People we cannot “un-appoint” or hold accountable for the unintended consequences of their “expert” manipulation of the levers of power.
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The only hope for the Republic is that the voters wake up and overturn Congress in 2010, or else we can replace the 50 white stars with 1 red star, and Chairman Obama can proclaim “Change in Amerika”.