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Again let me stress: I am not denying that Sarah Palin may have great skills. She may well. I am insisting that neither you, nor I, nor John McCain has any valid reason to believe that she does. This is not an argument about the attributes she lacks. It’s an argument about the information we lack. I am pleading with my fellow conservatives: Please demand more and better knowledge before you commit yourselves to a political leader.

I don’t get what Frum wants here. The race is on. This is not a classroom with no consequences resulting from the discussion. Governor Palin is the nominee. The alternative is a guy we KNOW has no leadership experience.

Frum should shut his pie hole and start campaigning for the ticket.

I wrote a lengthy and very insightful look on Wrapper’s thread into why Palin’s press unavailability isn’t a problem of any kind.

Unfortunately, when wrapper was banned my post was nuked because he started the thread.

My theory is that wrapper, seeing how fantastic my post was, intentionally got himself banned so my post would be deleted.

And if I spent an hour re-writing my post onto this thread, Old School will also intentionally get himself banned in order to keep my brilliance from seeing the light of day.

Or it could be that there’s not a secret conspiracy to keep people from reading my post that was the ordinary quality of what I usually write and that I’m exhausted and couldn’t put that much effort and a few hours into writing that post again.

Bowman - 07 September 2008 05:20 AM

I wrote a lengthy and very insightful look on Wrapper’s thread into why Palin’s press unavailability isn’t a problem of any kind.

Unfortunately, when wrapper was banned my post was nuked because he started the thread.

My theory is that wrapper, seeing how fantastic my post was, intentionally got himself banned so my post would be deleted.

And if I spent an hour re-writing my post onto this thread, Old School will also intentionally get himself banned in order to keep my brilliance from seeing the light of day.

Or it could be that there’s not a secret conspiracy to keep people from reading my post that was the ordinary quality of what I usually write and that I’m exhausted and couldn’t put that much effort and a few hours into writing that post again.

I’m pretty shocked that I haven’t been banned.

Yet.

Regardless, I’d love to read your awesome post.

Old School - 07 September 2008 06:58 AM

Bowman - 07 September 2008 05:20 AM

I wrote a lengthy and very insightful look on Wrapper’s thread into why Palin’s press unavailability isn’t a problem of any kind.

Unfortunately, when wrapper was banned my post was nuked because he started the thread.

My theory is that wrapper, seeing how fantastic my post was, intentionally got himself banned so my post would be deleted.

And if I spent an hour re-writing my post onto this thread, Old School will also intentionally get himself banned in order to keep my brilliance from seeing the light of day.

Or it could be that there’s not a secret conspiracy to keep people from reading my post that was the ordinary quality of what I usually write and that I’m exhausted and couldn’t put that much effort and a few hours into writing that post again.

I’m pretty shocked that I haven’t been banned.

Yet.

Regardless, I’d love to read your awesome post.

Old. Migraine. No sleep. Multiple recent blood sugar crashes. Sigh.

Let’s see…

It was about how this was nothing unusual.

At the moment in the beginning of a campaign when people really want to listen to a candidate’s speech, and radio stations pre-empt programming to carry the speech, and large crowds of undecideds show up just because the candidate is there, the campaign always spends the candidate’s time by putting him/her in front of a crowd.

Its a lot more effective to ride the wave of enthusiasm while it lasts and talk to the people unfiltered than it is to let people use that enthusiasm period to get to see you on TV in giblets of cut responses to questions a reporter selects.

When the candidate ceases to be a hot property, then they start to try to get free publicity by granting interviews. If they never were a hot property then they start giving the interviews right away.

Add in examples, flesh out the thoughts, put in the several things I know I’m not remembering right now, shake, stir, bake at 360 degrees for an hour and you will begin to experience a fragment of the majesty of the original writing.

Right now this post is “through a glass darkly” or Plato’s shadows on the wall (whichever amuses you most or offends you least).

Anybody seen Joe Biden?

Curmudgeon - 07 September 2008 09:38 AM

Anybody seen Joe Biden?

I think he has been busy re-writing his Neil Kinnock speech.

Bowman - 07 September 2008 09:15 AM

Old School - 07 September 2008 06:58 AM

Bowman - 07 September 2008 05:20 AM

I wrote a lengthy and very insightful look on Wrapper’s thread into why Palin’s press unavailability isn’t a problem of any kind.

Unfortunately, when wrapper was banned my post was nuked because he started the thread.

My theory is that wrapper, seeing how fantastic my post was, intentionally got himself banned so my post would be deleted.

And if I spent an hour re-writing my post onto this thread, Old School will also intentionally get himself banned in order to keep my brilliance from seeing the light of day.

Or it could be that there’s not a secret conspiracy to keep people from reading my post that was the ordinary quality of what I usually write and that I’m exhausted and couldn’t put that much effort and a few hours into writing that post again.

I’m pretty shocked that I haven’t been banned.

Yet.

Regardless, I’d love to read your awesome post.

Old. Migraine. No sleep. Multiple recent blood sugar crashes. Sigh.

Let’s see…

It was about how this was nothing unusual.

At the moment in the beginning of a campaign when people really want to listen to a candidate’s speech, and radio stations pre-empt programming to carry the speech, and large crowds of undecideds show up just because the candidate is there, the campaign always spends the candidate’s time by putting him/her in front of a crowd.

Its a lot more effective to ride the wave of enthusiasm while it lasts and talk to the people unfiltered than it is to let people use that enthusiasm period to get to see you on TV in giblets of cut responses to questions a reporter selects.

When the candidate ceases to be a hot property, then they start to try to get free publicity by granting interviews. If they never were a hot property then they start giving the interviews right away.

Add in examples, flesh out the thoughts, put in the several things I know I’m not remembering right now, shake, stir, bake at 360 degrees for an hour and you will begin to experience a fragment of the majesty of the original writing.

Right now this post is “through a glass darkly” or Plato’s shadows on the wall (whichever amuses you most or offends you least).

I could quibble a bit with the recipe, but I have to admit, that’s a pretty tasty slice of pie.

sarah has a lot of catching up to do in the next few weeks to get up to speed on national and world politics and policies.  she no longer has to know what is going on in her state she is expected to know what is going on in upper slobovia as someone has previously mentioned.  its study time.  i’m sure she will be thrown questions by joe biden that she does not know.

BigAlSouth - 07 September 2008 09:58 AM

Curmudgeon - 07 September 2008 09:38 AM

Anybody seen Joe Biden?

I think he has been busy re-writing his Neil Kinnock speech.

HAIR PLUG APPOINTMENT.

can franchiser - 07 September 2008 01:39 PM

sarah has a lot of catching up to do in the next few weeks to get up to speed on national and world politics and policies.  she no longer has to know what is going on in her state she is expected to know what is going on in upper slobovia as someone has previously mentioned.  its study time.  i’m sure she will be thrown questions by joe biden that she does not know.

You are assuming its true that she needs a few weeks of prep work to get up to speed on national and world politics and policies.

I’ll admit that its probably true.

However, at different points in my life, I’ve been very much up to speed on those items. And far beyond any level of mastery that I’ve seen a senator demonstrate.

Now I’m sure there are some that knew more but they were never called upon in public to demonstrate more than I had.

You can get a heck of a lot of foreign policy knowledge from the state department website, the defense department website, Jane’s Defense, multiple think tanks and foundations, and reading the news. And I worked a full time job and had a life while doing it. And I never had access to the full information that a governor gets.