Even the conservatives are starting to call on Palin to withdraw. Here’s a writer from the National Review:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MDZiMDhjYTU1NmI5Y2MwZjg2MWNiMWMyYTUxZDkwNTE
September 26, 2008
National Review
Palin Problem: She’s Out Of Her League
Kathleen Parker
It was fun while it lasted.
Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie
Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who
Is Clearly Out Of Her League.
No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I’ve been
pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform
brilliantly. I’ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held
breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case
it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is
exhausted.
Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the
verbiage and there’s not much content there. Here’s but one example of
many from her interview with Hannity: “Well, there is a danger in allowing
some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we’re talking about
today. And that’s something that John McCain, too, his track record,
proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the
partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.”
When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted
Obama’s numbers, Palin blustered wordily: “I’m not looking at poll
numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able
to go back and look at track records and see who’s more apt to be talking
about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some
opportunity to change, and who’s actually done it?”
If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.
If Palin were a man, we’d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe
Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she’s a
woman - and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket - we are
reluctant to say what is painfully true.
What to do?
McCain can’t repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the
wrath of the GOP’s unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess
his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem
with Biden.
Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can
bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time
with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family
first.
Do it for your country.