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The Barracuda Bites Back
In last night’s debate, Sarah Palin gives the best interview of her career.
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That, ladies and gentlemen, is the dispatch from Iraq of a person following in the footsteps of Walter Cronkite. Say what you will about that man’s objectivity, but I’ll understand if you weep softly.
The facts themselves show that Governor Palin has acquired a certain amount of experience that rises to a level a touch higher than host of a morning talk show. To wake up in the morning and pursue an agenda that involves the business of the largest state in the United States is something worth talking about. Oddly, it didn’t really come up in that interview. Maybe it’s on the cutting room floor. Perhaps this is an example of ambitious women tearing down ambitious women. After all, wasn’t the emotive question about being a working mom with kids conspicuously absent from this interview? Would Couric be playing to her own base by asking such a question? Then why not ask it?
Whatever it is, I’ll have a hard time buying the line that Palin’s a disaster until someone qualified enough to interview her does so. Last night’s debate showed that McCain made a solid choice, one who shares a characteristic of his. She’s at her most interesting when she’s in a fight.
J. Peter Freire is managing editor of The American Spectator.
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J.P. Freire is a writer in Washington and a former editor at the Washington Examiner and The American Spectator. You can follow him on Twitter @jpfreire.
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Francesca De Stefano| 10.17.08 @ 11:51PM
Sarah Palin has been the McCain campaign's albatross. The Hillary voters McCain thought he could grab by cynically offering them a woman who could do double duty by appealing to the base saw through the ruse and many of them moved to Barak. And McCain's VP choice made McCain look impulsive, a quality sometimes useful to heroes, not so much to presidents. Blaming the media for Palin's failure to appear to be someone most of the country would have confidence in as possible presidential material is convenient, but fails to recognize Palin's very real limitations. Refusing to answer questions in a debate, and continuing to repeat talking points instead, along with that ridiculous winking behavior, failed to legitimize her in the eyes of the majority of undecided voters.