I think I’ve started to notice a trend among conservatives: they like good-looking women. They like to hear what they’re thinking come out of the mouths of good-looking women – it’s sort of like money-laundering, idea laundering or something. Here is how it’s done:
1) Find good-looking woman who leans conservative, make sure that she does not possess a lick of sense or an ounce of compassion. Also make sure she professes to be Christian.
2) Put her through the political training process.
3) On the other end out comes a political icon in training with a healthy ego and little self-awareness and still very little sense or compassion.
4) Place her somewhere in your political machine, either as some kind of spokeswoman for family values (Carrie Prejean, Anita Bryant), as a talking head/pundit (Megyn Kelly, Ann Coulter, Laura Ingraham) or as a politician (Sarah Palin, Michele Bachmann).
Palin claims in her new book that she agreed to sit down with Couric partly because she felt sorry for her, after senior McCain adviser Nicolle Wallace told her that Couric suffered from self-esteem problems. It’s understandable that Palin would try to deflect blame for the interview: It was a disaster that hastened her unmasking as unqualified for the presidency.
The McCain/Palin feud has been vastly entertaining. Palin’s book will not calm the feud. Everything is someone else’s fault and if she had just been in charge things would have been so much better. Of course, the McCain people beg to differ.
“She lacked the knowledge base to stand in front of the press corps that was traveling with her and answer questions,” the adviser said delicately. “Because of the success of the convention speech, the feeling was that she should be exposed to as many people as possible directly, not through a media filter. The way to do that was to do interviews with the anchors.”
“The truth is, she refused to prepare for the Katie Couric interview,” the adviser continued. “She refused to engage in any preparation. And it was a disaster.”
The adviser also mocked a contradiction at the core of Palin’s claims: She’s simultaneously saying she was muzzled and kept from the press, even as she’s claiming she only did the Couric interview at the urging of McCain aides.
One commenter summed it up perfectly:
Anyone notice how perfect Palin is? It’s just her bad luck to run into so many mistake prone people.