Palin's Talent Scout

[babsbunny]

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/palins-talent-scout/

by Scott Horton

No wonder Bill Kristol has remained so positive about her while other neocons have fled. He helped push her to the veep ticket—and won out against Karl Rove.

In June 2007, a cruise liner sponsored by the political journal The Weekly Standard set anchor in Juneau, Alaska. Editors and guests of the publication were then treated to a reception with Governor Sarah Palin. It was a moment of discovery to equal Hernando Cortez’s landing at Veracruz. A writer for London’s Daily Telegraph interviewed one of the participants in the Juneau junket about the meeting with Palin:

“She’s bright and she’s a blank page. She’s going places and it’s worth going there with her.” Asked if he sees her as a “project,” the former official said: “Your word, not mine, but I wouldn’t disagree with the sentiment.”

On June 30, 2008, Kristol confidently predicted that McCain would select Sarah Palin and as a public display of support, oil prices would miraculously fall.

[tomg]

1. Thanks for the gift, Bill.

She a blank slate, you betcha, if by blank slate you mean Troopergate, witchcraft exorcisms, animal slaughter from helicopters, religious views rivaling fundy-o-mania, the inability to craft a coherent senetence, and a family that makes the Jukes and Kallikaks look like the board of Trustees at Harvard and Yale. And she can't play the flute worth a damn.

I hate Bill Kristol and one of the many many minor benefits of the Palin Implosion is that we might see the end of him as a talking head who has any credence. On the other hand, he is indirectly responsible for a lot of hilarious SNL clips with Tina Fey.