10-02-2008, 01:48 AM
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One just has to shake their head in befuddlement at this point. There are even some right wing conservatives who, at first were excited when Sarah Palin was chose as VP, but are now very disappointed with her.
Take a look at what Rod Dreher, a conservative Republican writer at beliefnet.com, had to say on Larry King the other night:
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"ROD DREHER, CONSERVATIVE EDITORIAL COLUMNIST: I have, Larry. I was initially very supportive of it because of Sarah Palin. I've been disgusted with my own party, the Republican Party, for a long time and I was only very grudgingly behind John McCain.
When he named Sarah Palin, I was ecstatic. I came out fighting for her early on, because she's young, she's anti-establishment and she is a social and religious conservative, as I am, who not only talks the talk, she walks the walk.
I thought...
KING: What changed?
DREHER: Well, what changed is she started talking. She started talking to Charlie Gibson. She started talking to Katie Couric. And I began to realize that, you know, just because she made the right enemies on the left and just because she may share some of my values, that doesn't mean she's qualified to be the vice president.
And I became more and more shocked and disillusioned by how little she seems to know about the things that a vice president should know -- or someone who is going to step in to be president should know.
And with this past week's economic news, I've begun to realize that, you know, we just can't take this risk right now.
I'm not an Obama fan. I'm not voting for Obama. But I just right now don't see that I can vote for McCain and Palin.
King: ...
DREHER: Well, I don't see any evidence that she really has thought deeply about international matters or the economy or things that she would really have to be on top of if she were to become the president. I mean, I agree with Lars, I think she's been a breath of fresh air. I like the way that she stood up to the good old boy network in the Republican Party in Alaska.
But come on, you can't get the kind of answers -- the robotic talking point answers that she has given to Katie Couric -- Katie Couric, of all people, that's not exactly a hard ball interview -- and expect to be taken seriously.
And I'm not a member of the Eastern elite media. I work for "National Review" magazine.
I'm a conservative blogger at Beliefnet.com.
But we have to talk about what we see. And even if it hurts the Republican ticket, I can't be dishonest about flaws I see in Sarah Palin. And that's too bad, because I think that she represents the next wave of conservative politicians in this country. But I guess we're going to have to wait until 2012 and see Bobby Jindal.
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