Namely, don’t buy the Left’s wishful thinking on Sarah Palin; they now feel compelled to warn their fellow liberals that she’s “a better debater than you think.”Indeed. If they hadn’t tried so hard to dismiss her as a lightweight, they might not have fallen into the trap of believing their own spin; they might even have taken her seriously enough to figure out what those of us who’ve been paying attention already know: she’s a gifted and capable politician who’s shown a considerable knack in her career for taking on and beating formidable opponents. Calling her unqualified doesn’t make her so.
HT: Power Line
True…of course, it depends on what you mean by qualification. Qualified to be a formiddable debator? Perhaps. Qualified to be the president should McCain succumb? That’s the primary concern for those who are concerned.
But the Dems do really seem to love putting themselves in this trap – it happened big time with Bush ’00, where he was trounced in debate but ‘won’ because he didn’t drool on himself, essentially. I think Biden/Palin might go similarly – if its anywhere near even, that’s a ‘win’ for Palin because for some reason the Dems like to make their lives twice as hard as they have to be…
She’s more qualified than Sen. Obama. Agreed on the trap, certainly.