Ding! Ding!Charles Krauthammer has done it again!
And it's on!!
Yesterday top his perch on Special Report with Bret Baier, the intellectual conservative waded in the weeds evaluating Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as a presidential candidate in 2012. Krauthammer (no doubt) intellectual assessment was she was not a "credible candidate".
Uh oh..battle lines!
The GOP appears to appreciate Gov. Palin's natural rhetorical gifts, but there is massive disagreement on whether she can appeal outside of her rural conservative, Christian base. I think she can if she just focused on her job as Governor and sought to study up on national issues, and provide (or facilitate) a forum where patricularly women and children's issues (and innovative solutions) can be brought to the forefront.
As of now, Gov. Sarah Palin is unacceptable to two parts of the Republican coalition: fiscal and liberation Republicans. Krauthammer is correct to use the Fox News forum to tell the Barracuda nation what every other Republican and Democrat already knows.
She's not ready.
My only question is would the Palin crowd support Mitt Romney? To 2008, many Republicans had an issue with Mitt Romney being a Mormon.
"Platitudes and Cliches"
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