September 3, 2008
Danger to Palin from McCain Campaign. Peggy Noonan wisely notes:Palin's friends should be less immediately worried about what the Obama campaign will do to her than what the McCain campaign will do. This is a woman who's tough enough to work her way up and through, and to say yes to a historic opportunity, but she will know little of, or rather have little experience in, the mischief inherent in national Republican politics. She will be mobbed up in the McCain campaign by people who care first about McCain and second about themselves. (Or, let's be honest, often themselves first and then McCain.) Palin will never be higher than number three in their daily considerations. They won't have enough interest in protecting her, advancing her, helping her play to her strengths, helping her kick away from danger. And – there is no nice way to say this, even though at this point I shouldn't worry about nice – some of them are that worst sort of aide, dim and insensitive past or present lobbyists with high self-confidence. She'll be a thing to them; they'll see the smile and the chignon and the glasses and think she's Truvi from Steel Magnolias. They'll run right over her, not because they're strong but because they're stupid.
Posted by Vanderleun at September 3, 2008 10:02 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
Comments
Noonan is one of those of the punditocracy whose pronunciations have the ring of truth but who is off the mark most of the time. What comes across in her "work" is that she is in love with the cadence of her own thinking and this comes across as the confidence of one who knows they speak to an appreciating audience...themselves.
Posted by: John Hinds at September 3, 2008 3:59 PM