Picking Palin Before She Was Ripe

By Kleinheider Posted on September 28, 2008 at 12:55 pm

John McCain, by elevating Sarah Palin onto the national political stage before she was ready, may have made an already weak conservative bench that much weaker:

By plucking her out of Alaska far too early, and then by filling her head with the tired ideas of the current Republican establishment, McCain has done two things to Palin. First, he’s ensured that Americans will perceive her as that fifth grade student who hasn’t done her homework and who is perpetually winging it. Secondly, she will come into 2012 branded as the product of Bush/McCain, Inc. This could be detrimental if the Republican Party responds to Obama’s presidency by taking sharp turns away from its current trajectory and perhaps embraces a more classically conservative foreign or economic policy.

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