Why is Kathleen Parker so obsessively anti-Palin? Renew America contributor Michael Gaynor, in a detailed analysis, explains that Parker will never forgive Sarah Palin for getting in Mitt Romney's way, nor John McCain for putting Gov. Palin there. Some excerpts:
Kathleen Parker flip flopped on Mrs. Palin so fast that John Kerry must have taken note. Mrs. Palin went from "Palin the Impaled" to "Palin the Impaler" and her resume from "impressive" to "thin" as it became obvious that Mrs. Parker really wasn't eager to have McCain/Palin win.Read Michael Gaynor's op-ed in its entirety here.
Ms. Parker's articles during the 2008 campaign are available at Townhall.com. They show that Ms. Parker wanted Romney so much that she foolishly undermined the McCain/Palin ticket and was blind to the reality about Obama. They also show the depths Ms. Parker was willing to plumb to try to discredit Mrs. Palin, probably for 2012 as well as 2008.
So, with CPAC 2010 [being] held this week, it's not a surprise that Mrs. Parker chose to write that Mrs. Palin has been a bad mother to Trig, the child Palin chose not to abort after learning that he had Downs syndrome. Mrs. Palin's "sins"? Publicly discussing her fleeting consideration of having an abortion and not treating the uses of the word "retarded" by Obama Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel and radio commentator Rush Limbaugh as the same.
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Alas, the befuddled Ms. Parker considers Mrs. Palin bedazzling, but not "rightful heir to the presidency," and will resort to literary lunacy to punish McCain for not choosing Romney and Mrs. Palin for being bedazzling and not being Romey (or at least dropping out, purportedly to do more for Trig, in favor of Romney).
- JP
I am at a complete loss as to why so many find Parker to be worthy of such high praise. Not only do I not agree with much of what she has to say, I am less than impressed by how she frames her argument.
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Romney supporters (Parker, Rabinowitz, etc.) are very nervous now fearing that he might not win the straw poll at CPAC, as he is expected to, in the absence of Sarah Palin.
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