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Weekly Standard Interview with Sarah Palin

By Joseph Lawler on 7.10.09 @ 12:23PM

The Weekly Standard website has up a piece by Matthew Continetti that includes parts of an interview with Sarah Palin. She discusses some of the issues that prompted her to resign and her plans for the future. The explanations she gives are the same ones that she cited in her now-famous resignation speech. It's an interesting interview, but it seems a bit too much like PR -- Continetti doesn't ask tough questions, and includes a lengthy survey of Palin's meteoric career that's mostly apologetics. The takeway from the article is that there are no other factors that led Palin's resignation that are not already on the record.

We'll see. Somehow I don't feel fully reassured.

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Mary| 7.10.09 @ 2:03PM

First, I want to tell you what a good selection your must-reads have been of late. Secondly, I want to let you know that a piece you linked from New Majority -nothing wrong with that; a cul-de-sac is a perfectly good place to turn around and head in another direction :)- indicating Frum's support for Republicans rejecting gay marriage, may have to be recalled. That's because just a little over a week ago, PJ TV had Frum on -he's actually more likeable than I've ever given him credit for being- and in that interview he disuades Republicans from attaching themselves to socially conservative causes. He specifically mentions gay marriage. So I'm wondering how a party with this type of opinion shaper (perhaps that's a stretch) can find its way to coherence?

Regarding Weekly Standard and Palin, don't you think this paragraph is sort of odd? I think the Palin hatred is visceral, even sometimes pathological, but the collection seems strange.

**Palin-hatred is visceral and unrelenting. "Our state was inundated with opposition researchers trying to dig up dirt, the Democratic blogosphere up here making stuff up," Palin told me. The file on my desktop labeled "Insult List" is an attempt to track every foul thing that's been said about Sarah Palin since she rose to national prominence. At the moment, the list is seven single-spaced pages long. Palin's been called, among other things, a "bimbo," a "cancer," a "farce," a "jack in the box," a "provincial," a "maniac," an "airhead," "Lady Gaga," and "political slime." And that's just a small taste of the G-rated stuff. The blue material is far worse.**

If I were advising her I'd make sure to tell her to drop the phrase lame-duck. And forget about the "I did this for Alaska" sale; at least as full-sale.

Quin| 7.10.09 @ 4:38PM

Continetti is still infatuated. For the other take on it, see this blistering column by Peggy Noonan: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124716984620819351.html