Parker should have known better in looking at the interviews with Gibson and Couric to understand the trap they set up and that Palin/McCain walked into.

And how did you know I introduced eggbeaters years ago into the market?

After Parker’s initial column I sent her the following e-mail: 

Ms. Parker, 

I , too, must add my disappointment at your recent column on Sarah Palin and how she is unqualified to be Vice President because of, as you seem to view it, her lack of sophistication. 

Kathleen, your elitism is showing. JFK and Camelot are dead and no amount of mockery on your part will bring them back. 

Your comment that - “Some of Palin's interview responses can't even be critiqued on their merits because they're so nonsensical” is, in itself, “nonsensical” as you apparently haven’t been paying attention to the flip-flops and gaffes that both Obama and Biden are making on a daily basis. 

As you must be aware of by now, Obama’s ‘sensical’, coherency, and sophistication come out of a teleprompter that displays speeches that have been written for him. When he does speak, sans teleprompter, he speaks in platitudes - which are truly “nonsensical”. 

So, right now I am waiting with baited breath on your column about how Senators Obama and Biden are qualified to be President and Vice President Of The United States - I need a good laugh. 

 "Does that mean she's ready to lead the free world should circumstances warrant? That question remains."

   The idea that a President sits in the Oval Office and by their own knowledge and expertise is single handedly pulling all the levers and pushing all the buttons that make the Whitehouse function is just plain wrong.  Presidents are surrounded by advisors and information providers.  What does a President do?  He/She decides policy and direction for action after being provided advice/options.  Sarah has at least to my mind proved that She is a 'Leader' in the sense that She is a true patriot and will indeed put America first.  However there is another candidate in this race who remains an enigma and so has not proved that he is ready to lead.

...have had access to the FULL Gibson/Couric interviews, or are they basing they're ignorant conclusions (misteps, wrong/no answers, circular answers...so on) only on the edited versions that were "customized" for the general population?

Just another pathetic attempt by the disingenuous, disrespectful, worthless MSM to hide the truth.

. . . Is part of the 0bama campaign - just like 95% of the media.  So I ignore her like the rest of the 0bamatons.

I cannot wait until this election is over.  I have a feeling that these 'enlightened' people will be enlightened as to the will of the majority of Americans.  The wailing will be loud and long.  Most spoiled babies' crying is.

I’ve read Kathleen Parker for some time and do not remember her laying the “not ready to be president’ qualifier on BHO when he launched his effort. From the beginning this hysterical loud noise coming from the liberal mainstream media and equally the self-righteous pundits has always sounded to me like a female thing, particularly with the females that write this stuff. Along with Ms Parker I have been a long time fan of Peggy Noonan. However, in the future I might have second thoughts about buying their books or reading their columns. Not because they may not agree with my politics but because of their stupid public remarks. How old do you have to be before you recognize it’s the foot that you’re chewing on.

C'mon everyone!

You too can make a film. Isn't that the heart of our new post Youtube world?

Everyone has some sort of crude movie making software in his computer.

I can edit anthing together with anything else and jade the product to suit my subjectivity.

We all know that this was done to Palin by both ABC and CBS.

The proof of Palin's ability to hold court with Biden cannot be spun away quite as easily.

Post debate polls don't matter. This was about Palin re-gaining credibility with the republican and conservative base.

They should of course have never fallen for it in the first place, but sadly Ms Parker did and now her credibility is shot.

I have said it before and I will say it again: Palin is no English professor. She is a hard working middle class woman who through raw talent and determination got the be Governor of a state.

That is success, pure and simple, and that too cannot be edited away.

I don't care about her syntax. I care about taxes. I don't care about her dropping her Gs. I care about dropping the ball on national security.

Ms Parker obviously does care about the more superficial polish of a candidate.  Well, Richard M Nixon was very polished and Ronald Reagan was folksy and simple. Which guy was a better president?

I am not trying to say that as of yet Palin is Reagan. There is no new Reagan as of yet on the horizon and there will not be until Americans understand what secular humanist socialists want to do to our economy, and our rights.

In the meantime Palin gets closer to the ideals of Reagan than W McCain or any other current Republican on the scene. 

 This is what I wrote last night on another forum:

 Parker: "And she said it in the nicest, gosh-darn way, bless her little heart. The GOP loved it, but did anyone else? Did Palin change hearts and minds? Probably not. My suspicion, bolstered by early polls, is that people left the debate with their original impressions intact. "

Nobody's mind was changed? Please!

I would have no problem with Parker criticizing whoever she wants as long as it is honest criticism. Leaving her reasoning of why Palin should dropout aside, Parker didn't just criticize but demanded the undemandable by saying Palin should be dropped. Neither campaign would be able to recover from such a dramatic action especially McCain in the environment of the Obama-loving MSM.

So Parker, who states she does indeed want McCain to win, in calling for the dropping of Palin was in essence asking McCain to make a change that guarantees he would lose...so that McCain could win. Great logic huh? And she knew full well that she would then be quoted by the MSM, as she was, in the media line that "even key conservatives are saying Palin should be dropped" meme.

This column is a classic example of trying to justify what was indeed her blunder and pretend that somehow she is showing courage. She is dishonest and has given National Review a big black eye.