All you Republicans should read what Peggy Noonan (highly regarded Republican speech writer) had to say about Palin in her Wall Street Journal (a very conservative newspaper) column on July 10, 2009:
“In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn’t say what she read because she didn’t read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn’t thoughtful enough to know she wasn’t thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. “I’m not wired that way,” “I’m not a quitter,” “I’m standing up for our values.” I’m, I’m, I’m.
In another age it might not have been terrible, but here and now it was actually rather horrifying.”
Peggy’s column was entitled “Farewell to Harms”. Her point is that Palin is harmful both to the Republican Party and to the republic.
Get it?
It has been reported in the media that Republican Senator John Ensign paid $95,000 to the family of his former Chief of Staff after having an affair with his wife! Actually it was Ensign’s parents who decided to “make a gift” to the woman’s family.
I watched on C-span a Republican Congressman talking to a group of high school students. This was part of the Students & Leaders series. The Congressman was John Culberson of Texas. This man’s theme was that that the federal government should get out of everyone’s life – especially his. He ranted and raved about how the federal government has taken away all the rights that are supposed to go to the states and individuals.