Calls rise among Republicans for Sarah Palin to step down from GOP ticket

**min0 lee** · 09-29-2008, 12:10 PM

Calls rise among Republicans for Sarah Palin to step down from GOP ticket
BY THOMAS M. DEFRANK AND DAVID SALTONSTALL
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS

Sunday, September 28th 2008, 11:31 AM

Sarah Palin faces the biggest test of her month-old candidacy with this Thursday's vice presidential debate, but many Republicans are already convinced the Alaska governor is not ready for prime time - and may never be.

"It was fun while it lasted," conservative National Review columnist Kathleen Parker regretfully concluded last week. "But circumstances have changed since Palin was introduced as just a hockey mom with lipstick."

Those "circumstances," Parker and others are now saying, include not just the Wall Street meltdown - a crisis that seems to cry out for seasoned leadership - but also Palin's choppy, tenuous, even unintelligible answers to the few questions she has fielded on her own.

Palin's interview last week with CBS' Katie Couric is Exhibit A - a frightening glimpse, say fans and critics alike, into what happens when Palin is allowed to speak without a script.

"It's very important when you consider even national-security issues with Russia," she told Couric in explaining why being able to see Russia from Alaska should count as foreign policy experience on her résumé. "It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right next to, they are right next to our state."

On the Wall Street meltdown and polls showing Republican nominee John McCain slipping, she added, "What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who's more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who's actually done it."

It made some GOP veterans yearn for Dan Quayle.

"You needed the Jaws of Life to pry a coherent sentence out," moaned one Republican operative.

Palin's uneven answers may help to explain why her handlers have let her grant only a handful of media interviews so far.

It may also explain why her poll numbers have started to slip, as in a Fox News poll last week that showed her favorable ratings dipping to 47% from 54%.

Republican guru Ed Rollins believes Team McCain did Palin a disservice by keeping her so walled off from the press.

Palin was thrust straight into the big leagues with ABC's Charlie Gibson and Couric (and a softball toss with conservative Fox News host Sean Hannity).

"They put her in storage," said Rollins, "and it broke her confidence."

dsaltonstall@nydailynews.com

**min0 lee** · 09-29-2008, 12:20 PM

The VP debates are on Thursday....FOX news is already saying the moderator will be unfair asking questions about foreign policies...the nerve of people asking such tough questions.

Ummmm......are they not supposed to know about foreign matters?

**Dale Mabry** · 09-29-2008, 12:24 PM

It doesn't matter, no one answers the questions asked anyway.

**min0 lee** · 09-29-2008, 12:54 PM

Originally Posted by Dale Mabry

It doesn't matter, no one answers the questions asked anyway.

You mean it will be changed into a swimsuit contest?

**BulkMeUp** · 09-29-2008, 12:59 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

You mean it will be changed into a swimsuit contest?

You really wanna see Biden in a swimsuit???

**min0 lee** · 09-29-2008, 01:00 PM

Gravity sure is a bitch at his age.

**BulkMeUp** · 09-29-2008, 01:04 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Gravity sure is a bitch at his age.

yea, in addition standing next to him on stage will be live bi.... oh, never mind.

**min0 lee** · 09-29-2008, 01:13 PM

Obama made a mistake, he should have had Hilary as her VP.....she would eat Pilan alive.....

**BulkMeUp** · 09-29-2008, 01:27 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Obama made a mistake, he should have had Hilary as her VP.....she would eat Pilan alive.....

True. But i get the feeling Hilary wanted the big chair. She was reluctant to settle for second best. I could be wrong, though.

**bio-chem** · 09-29-2008, 01:27 PM

i was just going to say were we not just reading last week how the democrats needed to change their VP pick? lets just accept the fact that both parties gave us shitty choices.

**min0 lee** · 09-29-2008, 01:47 PM

Originally Posted by bio-chem

i was just going to say were we not just reading last week how the democrats needed to change their VP pick? lets just accept the fact that both parties gave us shitty choices.

Accepted, Palin looked good...till she was interviewed.
Biden is senile.

**pyromaniac327** · 09-29-2008, 02:15 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

Accepted, Palin looked good...till she was interviewed.
Biden is senile.

I havent been reading too much about this stuff lately.
Could you explain what people are saying about Biden?

**min0 lee** · 09-29-2008, 02:33 PM

Originally Posted by pyromaniac327

I havent been reading too much about this stuff lately.
Could you explain what people are saying about Biden?

I could write a book on his gaffes.
I'll check for a few links.

**pyromaniac327** · 09-29-2008, 02:38 PM

Originally Posted by min0 lee

I could write a book on his gaffes.
I'll check for a few links.

Thank you very much, happy helperton.

**min0 lee** · 09-29-2008, 02:42 PM

Biden Slips, Suggests FDR Was President When Market Crashed - FOXNews.com Elections
Biden Slips, Suggests FDR Was President When Market Crashed
WASHINGTON -- Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis.

Associated Press
Tuesday, September 23, 2008

0
WASHINGTON -- Vice presidential candidate Joe Biden says today's leaders should take a lesson from the history books and follow fellow Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt's response to a financial crisis.

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,"' Barack Obama's running mate recently told the "CBS Evening News."

Except, Republican Herbert Hoover was in office when the stock market crashed in October 1929. There also was no television at the time; TV wasn't introduced to the public until a decade later, at the 1939 World's Fair.

FDR was elected three years later when voters denied Hoover a second term. The Democratic challenger appealed to the "forgotten man" by promising a "new deal" to solve the Depression era.

**pyromaniac327** · 09-29-2008, 02:44 PM

wow, lol.

**min0 lee** · 09-29-2008, 02:46 PM

Biden Admits Errors and Criticizes Latest Report - New York Times

**min0 lee** · 09-29-2008, 02:47 PM

There has been a few more.

**min0 lee** · 09-29-2008, 03:11 PM

"you cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent." Later, he called Obama "the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy."

Thread: Calls rise among Republicans for Sarah Palin to step down from GOP ticket

Thread Tools

Display

Calls rise among Republicans for Sarah Palin to step down from GOP ticket

Similar Threads

Would you fuck Sarah Palin?

Republicans 'considering' Sarah Palin 2012 presidential campaign

The Sarah Palin Thread

What Sarah Palin tells us about Obama

Sarah Palin?!?!

Posting Permissions