For those who haven’t noticed, we’re electing a president and vice president, not selecting a winner on “American Idol.” Ms. Palin may be a perfectly competent and reasonably intelligent woman (however troubling her views on evolution and global warming may be), but she is not ready to be vice president.
NYTimes on Palin
13 September 2008
29 August 2008
The decision certainly was creative, but it won’t age well. It will look like a desperate dumb move a couple of weeks from now. As stupid as trying to take and control Iraq without enough troops, without a plan for the occupation. It’s the Republican approach to problems, shoot from the hip without thinking things through. The invasion of Iraq was certainly a Wow event — like the choice of Palin — but it didn’t age well. This is another of those.
Scripting News on Palin