Comments on: What John Schwenkler Said

By: Katherine

Katherine — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:27:50 +0000

Going after her for statements on political matters would be fine. Nobody’s interested in doing so. The attacks on her family and personal life sink to tabloid-level and the press and bloggers should cut it out.

By: Bob Cheeks

Bob Cheeks — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:58:18 +0000

ED&G, I think she’s smarter than the Big O and has a better education!

By: greginak

greginak — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:40:14 +0000

FWIW Alaska is the Saudi Arabia of America. We have oil money that funds almost all of our gov and lets us avoid all the hard choices every other state has to make. When oil prices are high this state could , for most issues, run on cruise control.

By: E.D. Kain

E.D. Kain — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:57:13 +0000

I think it’s important not to give Sarah too much credit for the Alaskan state of affairs which are largely due to oil revenues which most states do not have at their disposal. And yeah, she’s got the whole Pentecostal Neocon thing going, which should worry anyone who disapproves of interventionist foreign policy.

By: Bob Cheeks

Bob Cheeks — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:54:55 +0000

Is Alaska going the route of Michigan, Cal-i-for-n-ia, Taxachewsetts, or any of a dozen other Dem controlled states, e.g. in the crapper? Although I do have to talk to her about her neocon inclination to “take Democracy to the Mid. East.”

By: E.D. Kain

E.D. Kain — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:29:46 +0000

John – I’m with you entirely regarding her kids, her “uterus” etc. I think there’s plenty that can be said about her vapid rhetoric, her ambition, her poor articulation of ideas, etc.

She would be as much a disaster as President with no kids at all.

By: John Schwenkler

John Schwenkler — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:27:24 +0000

P.S. It just occurred to me that the beyond ridiculous fuss – which I didn’t really follow – over the Photoshopped image of Palin and the baby could have been what you were referring to, in which case I withdraw my objection. But Sullivan consistently used this same line as a justification for spreading rumors about her supposedly faked pregnancy, so …

By: John Schwenkler

John Schwenkler — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 16:25:28 +0000

Just leave her freaking uterus alone, please.

… the way that Palin’s camp simultaneously uses an infant for political ends and then declares that infant off-limits is disgusting.

What exactly does this mean? In what sense was Trig Palin used for political ends but the Obama daughters, say, weren’t? Are the Palins really not allowed to pose together for photo ops, or to talk honestly – and some of what Gov. Palin has said about her struggles with that pregnancy has been remarkably honest – about what their family has gone through?

By: Mike at The Big Stick

Mike at The Big Stick — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:49:05 +0000

Is she really doing that much right now to attract any attention? I know she’s given a few speeches and her daughter has been in the news, but it seems like Palin has kept a pretty low profile since at least January. Am I just in the dark?

Freddie, I’m certainly not suggesting she is off limits. I guess I would just much rather hear nationally relevant content rather than tabloid journalism. Ahhh…but these are the days of our lives.

By: Freddie

Freddie — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:41:21 +0000

That’s true, and I agree with you, but then again, the political media isn’t a wing of the Democratic party. They’ll chase sensationalism, and Palin (whatever else is true of her) is a sensation.