By Rhet Rick

November 18, 2009 9:46 PM | Link to this

MWM, you’re on to something. To paraphrase John Dean, Barry Goldwater was a conservative with a conscience. Today’s so-called conservatives don’t have a conscience, much less any agenda other than to tear down the president.

By irishguy

November 17, 2009 12:12 PM | Link to this

Looking for a debate Mike?

By Blowfly

November 17, 2009 11:39 AM | Link to this

Setting aside all the who said what. It’s clear from her “story” that she was in way over her head. Her expectation that she would be able to do what she wanted and not be “handled” as a VP candidate is incredibly naive. Also, shows what a bad job McCain did in preparing her for the realities of the job.

By Mike

November 17, 2009 10:28 AM | Link to this

Vick, where are her defenders? Have you run them all off?

By irishguy

November 16, 2009 5:54 PM | Link to this

If Mrs Palin ever became President, the best thing would be watching all the liberal talking heads and columnists’ heads explode.

By mwm

November 16, 2009 5:53 PM | Link to this

The GOP lost its way a long time ago. Reagan was probably the last hoorah for the GOP. And, some conservatives want to relive the past. Perhaps by reincarnating RR and supply side economics. This would prove to be impossible. We live in a new era. I was raised in Arizona. And Barry Goldwater was a great leader. McCain is no Goldwater, never was, never will be. Bush2 as we all know, was a failure. Certainly not a conservative. Sorry evangelicals, Bush was a worst case for your ideology. And, his crony’s really messed up the country and your political ideology. What choices do you have? You have no true leadership in the GOP. No rock star. And, sticking to your neocon/pnac world domination agenda, mixed with aligning with evangelicals; when there is so much immorality within your party, and, attempting to continue unregulated free market, yet another failure. Besides the anti-gay and anti abortion stances. The GOP is living in the past. They either give the people what they want. Or, become a minor political influence like many of the independent political parties. And, certainly, after what Bush did, our country would be better off without a conservative GOP.

By bizcitbutt

November 16, 2009 4:34 PM | Link to this

She could become president…in the Twilight Zone! Imagine that…

By Mark from St Paul

November 16, 2009 4:12 PM | Link to this

There seems to be one very strong theme running through all the Palin v McCain campaign staff stories. For whatever reason, the McCain people seem to have been terrified of Palin going into an interview with a real news person. Gov. Palin’s debate with Joe Biden pretty much showed why. She has no real grasp of the issues, and is a red meat demagogue who stirs people up without using so much as a single fact. Unlike an actual conservative, she is a warmonger and abrasive on foreign policy to the point of xenophobia. Rules are not for her, and even when she’s the one laying down the law, that law is subject to arbitrary change whenever it proves convenient. I grew up in a very conservative part of rural northern Iowa. I have yet to learn anything about Sarah Palin that suggests she is a conservative, or a traditional Republican. Her brand of radical Christianist beliefs scare the heck out of me. At times she appears to embrace ignorance over facts, faith over reason. BUT, having said that, Johanna Neuman and Andrew and Andrew Malcolm write the most predictably RNC-dictated newspaper column this side of Howie Kurtz at the Washington Post. Neuman and Malcolm would be criticizing Palin’s book no matter what because they’re part of the Republican establishment that “gets” it. They realize Sarah Palin was their McGovern moment, and that their party now needs to rebuild itself as the mainstream opposition to the Democrats. If the GOP remains the party of Palin and Jean Schmidt and Michele Bachmann, Barack Obama will end up being our President for Life.

By Literatti

November 16, 2009 3:29 PM | Link to this

You’d think she would have been too busy reading all of those newspapers and magazines to pay attention to how the staff acted.

By Insider

November 16, 2009 1:11 PM | Link to this

Maybe she could take a voluntary lie detector test…wouldn’t that be a Hoot! SNL?