Sarah Palin is the Paris Hilton of the McCain campaign – what comes around, goes around
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"Sarah Palin was sensational tonight," roared Pat Buchanan in post-debate comment on the MSNBC cable network. "She regained that magic she had at the convention."
He may have gone too far — it wouldn’t be the first time — but Buchanan was correct that Palin made and sustained very good eye contact with the camera.
MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow listened patiently to Buchanan’s praise for Palin’s presentation and responded, "Boring but right versus exciting and wrong — that’s America’s choice?" Commentators on many of the networks marveled at Palin’s insistence on avoiding substantial comment on issues and on simply ignoring questions she couldn’t answer convincingly.
Palin basically stated early in the debate that this would be her strategy. She said she wasn’t necessarily going to respond to the questions of the moderator or charges from Biden, but instead, "I’m gonna talk right to the American people." Since this was billed as a debate, not a speech, her remark came across as arrogant, and as an admission she would duck tough questions.
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Sheryl Crow:
First, let me say that John McCain’s choosing Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate is not my idea of putting country first, but instead seems to me to have been a strategical tactic to save his flailing campaign at a time when Senator Obama’s attention was at a peak.
Secondly, I’ll say that, darn it, Sarah Palin is cute. However, my frustration with Governor Palin never answering a question was exasperating. She certainly was down-home and sassy. Certain statements she made struck me as ironic — statements such as John McCain representing change and reform, when he has been so deeply aligned with George W. Bush.
. . . I, for one, am terrified that all the "soccer moms" and the "Joe six-packs" will fall for the likable candidate as being qualified to lead our country. I don’t want someone who is likable, I want the smartest, most prepared team, and that does not include the spunky Sarah Palin.
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Catch phrases and buzz words bounce in the air above her head. . . . She is the woman politician advertisers have been waiting for — all style and no substance.
She reminds me of Paris Hilton — who once tried to trademark the expression "That’s hot." Will Palin trademark "You betcha"? Or "doggone"? Or "team of mavericks"? I wouldn’t put it past her. Whatever happens with the "election" the endorsements will come flooding in. Maybelline will want her. And Kellogg’s. And Wal-Mart. Some publisher must already have an offer on the table.
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Palin: Celebrity? Check. Inexperienced? Check.
It’s as though McCain considered his campaign’s attacks on Barack Obama — a young celebrity without the experience to lead — and went looking for his own version.
