Parker: White House Officials Agree That Palin Should Be Off GOP Ticket (Video)

[democracy1st]

Its clear as day with the Palin pick for VP by McCain conservative intellectuals see their party being represented by uneducated bigots.


Last month, conservative columnist Kathleen Parker wrote a scathing column saying that Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) is “way out of her league” as the GOP’s vice presidential candidate and called on the Alaska governor to “bow out” of the race in order to “save McCain, her party, and the country she loves.”

Parker has subsequently noted angry responses from conservatives around the country. “To the GOP base, predictably, I’m a traitor,” Parker wrote.

Last night on the Colbert Report, Parker reiterated her belief that Palin is not qualified for the GOP ticket, but she also revealed that some White House officials have told her that they secretly agree:

COLBERT: Now but you said you got emails from people in the White House who secretively –

PARKER: Did I say that?

COLBERT: Yes you did. You said you secretly got emails from people in the White House but you wouldn’t name who they were, who said that they agreed with you.

PARKER: That’s correct. I got a lot of off-the-record emails and a lot of phone calls from people who said, you’re saying what we’ve been saying.

Watch it (starting at 2:06)

Link to video

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/14/parker-palin-white-house/

Indeed, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) choice of Palin as his running mate has stirred the conservative establishment. New York Times columnist David Brooks has said that Palin is “a fatal cancer” on the GOP and said he prefers someone “who’s read a few more books.”

After calling the race “over” in response to Palin’s selection, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan has offered only tepid praise of Palin, saying she mainly shows a “great and natural competence about the show business of politics.”

Responding to Palin’s critics on the right, McCain said, “Now if there’s a Georgetown cocktail party person who quote calls himself a conservative and doesn’t like her, good luck, good luck, fine.”

[AspenRose]

1. "Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country"

(and women)

Dear Conservatives of good conscience (what few of you are left):

You REALLY should take Goldwater's advice and let the 29%ers go and form THEIR OWN FAR-RIGHT PARTY. You need to grab the reins and reclaim the GOP from the lunatics who are running your asylum into the ground.

Just sayin'.

[spag68]

2. Your subject line

Is it or is it not an old typewriter line that includes all the keys as an exercise, or something like that?

[AspenRose]

3. Congratulations!

Here you go! :hi:

[raysr]

4. She(it) should be off

the planet!