amconmag.com - 11/6/2008
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Still, as her former running mate would say, the fundamentals of Sarah Palin are strong. Her conservative detractors—Colin Powell, David Brooks, and Christopher Buckley among them—were put off not by her personality but rather her lack of knowledge about certain national and foreign-policy ...
thepage.time.com - 11/3/2008
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How Big A Farce Was She?
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Larison sighs: The claim that she didn't know Africa was a continent is the sort of thing that almost sounds as if it belongs to a caricature of a person who knows nothing, but it seems remotely possible that it is true. Americans' knowledge of world geography is notoriously poor, which does not excuse it in this case if true, but neither is it all that far-fetched. The troubling thing is that I get the sinking feeling that a lot of people who want her to become the future of the party couldn't care less about this. I ...
Will Palin Replace Cheney As Viral Neoconservatism’s New Host?
The Moderate Voice —
... I am relieved to report that Rick’s man crush is in remission and he now acknowledges in so many words that Palin is indeed a cipher, or as Daniel Larison puts it, that ignorance is not strength. Oh yeah, and that elections have consequences. ...
Circular Firing Squad Redux
damnum absque injuria —
Via TGirsch, Daniel Larison drinks the anti-Palin Kool-Aid, noting that while snarky comments from disgruntled staffers should be taken with a grain of salt: Obviously, we should take what disgruntled McCain staffers dish to reporters with a grain of salt. They have an agenda, and part of it is to make her look even worse than she already does to deflect some of the criticism away from McCain. A ...
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