div align="justify"I like the Fox News Special Report. It’s now hosted by Brett Baer who has done an excellent job replacing the retiring Brit Hume. The last 20 minutes or so are a panel discussion with three panelists. Sometimes there are substitutions, but usually they are Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes and Mara Liasson. This panel is unique in the media in the respect that it consists of two conservatives and one liberal.br /br /The subject of Republican candidates for 2012 was part of the discussion on July 1. When the discussion turned to Sarah Palin everyone agreed that Palin should be busy studying foreign policy issues to prepare herself if she decided to run. One of the panelists recommended that she send for policy experts to visit her in Alaska to provide a tutorial.br /br /And everyone nodded.br /br /This is the conventional wisdom and it’s wrong. Why should Palin be held to a different standard than the people who won the election in 2008?br /br /Quick ... when did Obama get quizzed on foreign policy?br /br /Obama’s foreign policy consisted of pulling out of Iraq before we were successful and closing Guantanamo before he knew what could be done with the terrorists there. Oh yes, the other leg of his foreign policy was to hold talks with Ahmadinejad of Iran without pre-conditions.br /br /Can anyone remember Obama getting a “test” on foreign policy during the campaign? Can anyone remember anything about the Obama campaign other than “hope and change,” “yes we can,” and “we are the ones we have been waiting for.”br /br /Why is Sarah Palin going to judged on a different standard that the recent winner in the Presidential sweepstakes? Is there a different test that Republican women must pass? Why is there a demand that Sarah Palin be required to prepare a doctoral dissertation and be subject to an oral exam as if she were attending graduate school while the winner of the last election not only does not have her experience, he was not even asked about his knowledge.br /br /It is easy and obvious to point out that there is a double standard in the MSM. But to see it exhibited – rather mindlessly – by a person for whom I have as much respect as Charles Krauthammer and someone who is as reflexively conservative as Fred Barnes is infuriating. It’s like a reflexive tick. It’s as if they view her as the SNL’s Tina Fey claiming to see Russia from her house.br /br /What is the matter with the people inside the Beltway when it comes to Sarah Palin? Is it because she’s a woman? Is it because she too good looking? Is she too middle class? Is it her accent? Is it her religion? Is it because she’s from Alaska? Is it because she did not attend an Ivy League University? Is it because she appeals to people in "flyover country?" Why do the people who a href="http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2009/07/washington-post-sells-access-25000.html"sell access to Obama administration officials and the editors of the Washington Post for $25,000/a and up hate her so?br /br /What is it? /divp align="justify"br /br /strongUPDATE:/strong Here's the video of the discussion.br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2l8ts15kIrAamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2l8ts15kIrAhl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /br /Watch the video. Krauthammer said that emstrong"You cannot sustain a campaign of platitudes and cliches over a year and a half if you're running for the Presidency."/strong/em Was Charles Krauthammer, for whom I have the utmost respect, living in an alternative universe during the last presidential campaign? em"Hope and change"/em is the very definition of a platitude while em"we are the ones we have been waiting for"/em does not aspire to even that level.br /br /Mind you, I am not in favor of electing ill-equipped demagogues to any office, let alone the presidency. But that's just what happened in 2008. The idea that you can't do what Barack Obama so obviously did makes Krauthammer's comments silly and makes me question the motives behind his dismissal of Palin. He appears to favor Romney who is a very rich man.br /br /In his defense, he may have meant to say that Republicans - unlike Democrats - can't run an empty suit and win. But Ronald Reagan proved that you can win an election on big ideas without taking a test in which you are asked to name the second assistant vice chairman of Bulgaria. /pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7158917-2165718481076482947?l=moneyrunner.blogspot.com'//div
Friday, July 3, 2009
The Palin Standard
div align="justify"I like the Fox News Special Report. It’s now hosted by Brett Baer who has done an excellent job replacing the retiring Brit Hume. The last 20 minutes or so are a panel discussion with three panelists. Sometimes there are substitutions, but usually they are Charles Krauthammer, Fred Barnes and Mara Liasson. This panel is unique in the media in the respect that it consists of two conservatives and one liberal.br /br /The subject of Republican candidates for 2012 was part of the discussion on July 1. When the discussion turned to Sarah Palin everyone agreed that Palin should be busy studying foreign policy issues to prepare herself if she decided to run. One of the panelists recommended that she send for policy experts to visit her in Alaska to provide a tutorial.br /br /And everyone nodded.br /br /This is the conventional wisdom and it’s wrong. Why should Palin be held to a different standard than the people who won the election in 2008?br /br /Quick ... when did Obama get quizzed on foreign policy?br /br /Obama’s foreign policy consisted of pulling out of Iraq before we were successful and closing Guantanamo before he knew what could be done with the terrorists there. Oh yes, the other leg of his foreign policy was to hold talks with Ahmadinejad of Iran without pre-conditions.br /br /Can anyone remember Obama getting a “test” on foreign policy during the campaign? Can anyone remember anything about the Obama campaign other than “hope and change,” “yes we can,” and “we are the ones we have been waiting for.”br /br /Why is Sarah Palin going to judged on a different standard that the recent winner in the Presidential sweepstakes? Is there a different test that Republican women must pass? Why is there a demand that Sarah Palin be required to prepare a doctoral dissertation and be subject to an oral exam as if she were attending graduate school while the winner of the last election not only does not have her experience, he was not even asked about his knowledge.br /br /It is easy and obvious to point out that there is a double standard in the MSM. But to see it exhibited – rather mindlessly – by a person for whom I have as much respect as Charles Krauthammer and someone who is as reflexively conservative as Fred Barnes is infuriating. It’s like a reflexive tick. It’s as if they view her as the SNL’s Tina Fey claiming to see Russia from her house.br /br /What is the matter with the people inside the Beltway when it comes to Sarah Palin? Is it because she’s a woman? Is it because she too good looking? Is she too middle class? Is it her accent? Is it her religion? Is it because she’s from Alaska? Is it because she did not attend an Ivy League University? Is it because she appeals to people in "flyover country?" Why do the people who a href="http://moneyrunner.blogspot.com/2009/07/washington-post-sells-access-25000.html"sell access to Obama administration officials and the editors of the Washington Post for $25,000/a and up hate her so?br /br /What is it? /divp align="justify"br /br /strongUPDATE:/strong Here's the video of the discussion.br /object width="425" height="344"param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/2l8ts15kIrAamp;hl=enamp;fs=1amp;"param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/2l8ts15kIrAhl=enfs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"/embed/objectbr /br /Watch the video. Krauthammer said that emstrong"You cannot sustain a campaign of platitudes and cliches over a year and a half if you're running for the Presidency."/strong/em Was Charles Krauthammer, for whom I have the utmost respect, living in an alternative universe during the last presidential campaign? em"Hope and change"/em is the very definition of a platitude while em"we are the ones we have been waiting for"/em does not aspire to even that level.br /br /Mind you, I am not in favor of electing ill-equipped demagogues to any office, let alone the presidency. But that's just what happened in 2008. The idea that you can't do what Barack Obama so obviously did makes Krauthammer's comments silly and makes me question the motives behind his dismissal of Palin. He appears to favor Romney who is a very rich man.br /br /In his defense, he may have meant to say that Republicans - unlike Democrats - can't run an empty suit and win. But Ronald Reagan proved that you can win an election on big ideas without taking a test in which you are asked to name the second assistant vice chairman of Bulgaria. /pdiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7158917-2165718481076482947?l=moneyrunner.blogspot.com'//div
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