Kathleen McKinley: Blogging 'Sarah Palin’s Alaska!'

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Kathleen McKinley, who will be blogging "Sarah Palin's Alaska" (along with a liberal counterpart) for the Houston Chronicle, says that while she's a big fan of the governor, she doesn't put anyone on a pedestal:

The last thing I would want for conservatives is for us to get all star struck over someone like the left did with Obama. Sarah and Obama are people just like us. They aren't superheros. We can admire them for their virtues, but let us never forget that they have their vices as well. Just as we all do.

On the other hand, people are welcome not to like Sarah and to disagree with her. But maybe we could elevate the discourse and not resort to 3rd grade name calling as this WaPo reviewer does:

"Who is this woman, this fruit bat in fleece and Gore-Tex.."

Good grief. Why doesn't he just write, "I hate Sarah Palin," and be done with it? Sometimes I am amused at the amount of hatred that Sarah generates among the left, because she is laughing all the way to the bank, but most times I am just sad that we have come to a point in society where calling someone a "fruit bat" is considered a "review" by the Washington Post.

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The Chron's blogging of "Sarah Palin's Alaska" can be followed at its Tubular web page.

- JP

Quote of the Day (June 29, 2010)

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Kathleen McKinley:

"Many on the left cannot stand that Sarah Palin has strong opinions, and is expressing them across this country. It amazes me what they will do to stop free speech when they don't agree with it... The rancor is about a conservative amazing woman who speaks the truth. The more the left goes after her, the more popular she will become with conservatives and the rest of America. I don't think they get that."

- JP

Sarah Palin for RNC Chair?

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Kathleen McKinley, who also blogs at the Houston Chronicle as TexasSparkle, says it's time for Michael Steele to go:

The buck stops with him. He wasn't aware? Well, he should have been. The staffer involved has been fired and the money will be returned. But for Steele to allow this is inexcusable. The other expenses are troubling as well. People in Washington seem to think that they are entitled to live large on other people's money. God, we are all just sick of it.

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I've been a supporter of Steele from the beginning. He's had some problems and many have wanted him to step down for a while. I disagreed. But now, I think I may have been wrong about that. It's time for him to go.

Who should replace him? Sarah Palin.

While we were early supporters of Chairman Steele, we're frankly tired of making excuses for him. The RNC needs a chairman who only only makes news when bringing in gobs of donor money, helping deserving candidates get elected and taking the battle to the Democrats. Actually, we're more troubled by his high-roller expense account than we are over the stupid nightclub thing, embarrassing as it may be.

But we can't say that we agree that Gov. Palin should replace Steele, unless she really wanted the job. But we seriously doubt that she would want it, as it seems to be out of phase with what she's doing now. Her multi-year contract with Fox News would probably preclude it.

We think Mitt Romney would be an ideal candidate for the position. It's basically a fundraising job, and he's proved that he can get people to donate loads of cash to political causes. Besides RomneyCare wouldn't be an impediment to him in the role of RNC Chairman, but in his persona as a GOP presidential candidate, it hangs around his neck like an albatross.

- JP

Quote of the Day (July 23, 2009)

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From RightwingSparkle in Houston:

"I wonder what everyday Democrats think about the unending attacks on Palin. What do they think when a DNC official blogger post photoshops of Palin and her Down Syndrome baby with the baby's face photoshopped with an alien face. I wonder what everyday Democrat women think when the leftwing blogosphere makes crude sexual jokes about her and her daughters or when they photoshop pictures of her in a sexually crude way."

- JP