What disastrous Palin performance?
Jay Nordlinger:
She can be an articulate spokesman for those positions when given the opportunity as was shown during her convention speech and during the debate with Biden. She may have had a couple of bad interviews but that was a pretty small part of the entire campaign, but what liberals do is take those small parts and try to make a big deal of them as if they discredit the rest. They tried to do the same thing with the Swift vets. It is part of their MO.
As conservatives we should not allow them to get away with that kind of politics of personal destruction. It is just another way they use insult instead of argument in an attempt to shut off debate.
I’d like to start out with kind of a funny item — on just a fragment of a sentence. I have not read the piece on Sarah Palin in Vanity Fair (here); I intend to read it later. But I’ve read the little blurb that precedes the piece. Actually, I’ve read just part of the opening sentence of that blurb.Nordlinger is on to something. When I read that sentence I had to think back and ask myself exactly what is she said or did that prompted that kind of unfair assessment? Her positions on the issue are entirely consistent with much of the conservative movement which is much larger than the liberal movement.
The sentence begins, “Despite her disastrous performance in the 2008 election, Sarah Palin . . .”
Okay, was it? Was Palin’s performance disastrous? There were bad moments and incidents, to be sure — particularly the Katie Couric interview, as I recall. (I thought that the Charles Gibson one was not nearly as bad as some other people thought. I also thought that the interview reflected far worse on Gibson than on Palin.) But Palin had some very, very good moments — starting with that boffo, electric acceptance speech. And she was generally good — quite good — on the stump.
Also, consider this: John McCain has had about 3,000 debates on the national stage, running for president all those years. Palin has had exactly one. Who did better: the GOP presidential nominee, in his three debates last fall, or the vice-presidential nominee in her one — in her maiden effort?
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She can be an articulate spokesman for those positions when given the opportunity as was shown during her convention speech and during the debate with Biden. She may have had a couple of bad interviews but that was a pretty small part of the entire campaign, but what liberals do is take those small parts and try to make a big deal of them as if they discredit the rest. They tried to do the same thing with the Swift vets. It is part of their MO.
As conservatives we should not allow them to get away with that kind of politics of personal destruction. It is just another way they use insult instead of argument in an attempt to shut off debate.
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