Ross is fed up with the unimaginative McCain campaign's trying to overmanage Sarah Palin. Excerpt:
I know that the people who've decided she's Monica Goodling with a shotgun aren't going to be persuaded by me on this point, but I think Palin really does have the potential to embody the kind of change the GOP desperately needs: In a party that's dominated by entrenched interests, she demonstrated that it's possible to take on the establishment and win; in a party increasingly riven by ideological feuds, she's demonstrated that it's possible to be a populist and a pragmatist, a social conservative on some fronts and a libertarian on others. But a vice-presidential run isn't the ideal place to develop that potential in the best of times, and a vice-presidential run under the tutelage of the McCain campaign is likely to produce a lot more of what we saw from Palin in her interview last night: Rigorously memorized, carefully regurgitated talking points, a determination to avoid making enormous gaffes, and not much else.
This is correct. We just finished an editorial board meeting to talk over the Palin interviews, and most of us agreed that the Sarah Palin we all saw last night was a fembot programmed by the McCain brain trust. We all want to see the real Sarah. Some of us think she's better than what we all saw last night. Some of us think she's worse. All of us wish McCain's people would get out of the way and let Palin be Palin.
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Mr. Gibson was extremely unfair to Mrs. Palin when he asked if she believed in the Bush doctrine. The word doctrine was not in her vocabulary. Mr. Gibson should have used common language in the interview.
He didn't ask if she believed in it. He asked if she knew what it was.
hysterics,
I think you misunderstood what I wrote, and perhaps its my my fault for not being clear enough.
When I wrote "Your tracking of the "Jesus/Pontius" meme is a case in point" I was pointing out that you're probably right that the "Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor" line did not come directly from the Obama campaign -- but instead, as you rightly point out, from a leftist blogger, which was then picked up and used by a Democratic Congressman, as much of this viral messaging tends to spread.
What I was suggesting is that's precisely the sort of thing that motivates me when I wrote that "leftist histrionics do more to get me to the polls than any evil plot Karl Rove could ever hatch to control my brain." I react more against leftist theatricality and hate than I do to any positive attempts by the GOP to woo my vote. That's what I was saying.
I think you misunderstood my point, and took it to mean that I thought Obama's operatives were inserting messages into the comments threads of blogs. No. What I was saying is that the line "Jesus was a community organizer, Pontius Pilate was a governor" is an encapsulated form of leftist thinking that I find illogical, distasteful and frankly outrageous.
You wondered why I brought it up - and why I brought it up in the context of anecdotal information about how white evangelicals were reacting to it.
I did both because I thought it relevant to the discussion, to demonstrate that these white evangelicals (who had planned to vote for Obama) could very well end up now voting against him not because of any latent racism, not because they were looking for an excuse to cast their votes against him, but because of their revulsion for theatrical leftist sophistry that attempts to recast Jesus in whatever role leftists find useful at the moment.
I love the way pundits love to list all the foibles and characteristics of 'rednecks' and 'hillbillies,' saying they will not vote for Obama because he is black, yet no one ever says anything about the fact that Obama will carry an estimated 94% of the black vote. What percentage of that 94% of people understand the nuances of Obama's policies and choose them over McCain's? Is there a particular reason why the redneck hillbilly is expected to make his choice based on reasoned thinking on policy rather than racial demographics or culture?
Oh my. Since the last time I deigned to dip my dainty polished toes into this fever swamp, it has become the haven of moonbats. Who knew?
Wikipedia says that "scholars have identified at least seven Bush Doctrines." But of course this is just an "elementary foreign policy question," and Sarah should have peeped right up about it, even though Gibson himself didn't have a clue.
Well, well. We can't all be so brainy that we think there are 57 states or that Russia has no veto power at the UN Security Council....
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