THE PLANK JULY 3, 2009
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Matt Continetti, The Weekly Standard:
One thing you learn about Sarah Palin when you study her career is that
she never, ever does things by the book. I think it's safe to say
today's events are a further example of this tendency.
Kathryn Jean Lopez, The Corner:
Listening to her, it seems like this is a combination of stepping back
and moving forward. Stepping back, because it's way too overwhelming to
be Sarah Palin, political phenom, Sarah Palin, governor of Alaska, and
Sarah Palin, wife and mother. I don't know that anyone can fulfill all
those roles well, simultaneously. And we're unrealistic, I think, when
we assume people can or should.One reservation I've always had
about Sarah Palin has to do with her family. If she is stepping down
because of what politics has done to her family, because of something
in her family life she doesn't want to see as David Letterman fodder,
because it's impossible to be governor, a star, and a mom to an infant
... this is good. It demonstrates good judgment and priorities.
And that is that.
It's over. You can't resign from a governorship and then run for higher
office. Barring some strong reason, like needing treatment for cancer.
--Isaac Chotiner
6 comments
Gotta hand it to Lopez, only she can write something so ridiculous as that. Um...stepping back and moving forward at the same time means standing still, but she ain't doing that, she is stepping down, or is she also stepping up to Holy Mother?
Honestly, can you imagine what it must be like to be Kathryn Jean Lopez, what a truly bizarre world she must inhabit.
- blackton
July 3, 2009 at 5:27pm
Lopez wrote: "If she is stepping down because of what politics has done to her family..."
EXCUSE me? It was Palin who unconscionably thrust her pregnant teen daughter into the limelight for her own selfish political gain. What a quintessential hypocrite.
- kevincollins
July 3, 2009 at 6:03pm
Just a reminder, Matt Continetti is in the process of writing of writing a book on Palin. He must be pissing his pants right about now
- Simon Greenwood
July 3, 2009 at 6:05pm
This just in from God:
"Oh for Christ sakes, she's doing it again!!"
Steele then phoned Rush Limbaugh for further instructions. Rush told him to book her on the show. He then went out and bought a box of cigars....
....from Bill Clinton.
gw
- iambiguous
July 3, 2009 at 6:09pm
kevincollins said:
"EXCUSE me? It was Palin who unconscionably thrust her pregnant teen daughter into the limelight for her own selfish political gain. What a quintessential hypocrite."
Don't forget about Trig. Rumors he will be advanced as the next Dalai Lama.
- tomeg
July 3, 2009 at 6:22pm
God, it has to be so hard being "Sarah Palin, political phenom". And it's super easy to be Barack Hussein Obama, world megastar and anti-American jihadist. Remember the crap that guy had to put up with during the primary? She's a joke.
- dmalato2
July 5, 2009 at 12:30am