RUSH: Here's Paul Johnson in the Wall Street Journal: Sarah Palin "is in the good tradition of America, which this awful political correctness business goes against. She's got courage. That's very important in politics. You can have all the right ideas and the ability to express them. But if you haven't got guts, if you haven't got courage the way Margaret Thatcher had courage -- and [Ronald] Reagan, come to think of it. … It's the central virtue." Courage is the central value of American politics. If you don't have that the rest is irrelevant. Paul Johnson, brilliant British historian and journalist.
I'm sorry to say that I don't see how anyone can support Sarah Palin for President.
When John McCain chose her as his running mate, it was widely touted that she had more governing experience than Barack Obama. And that may well have been true.
But what about now?
Palin quit halfway through her term, and she has been out of politics since then. Where was the courage required to stick in office and fight the creeps who were harrassing her over this, that and everyhting else? No, she cut and ran.
She had done nothing since then except endorse other people, and have a reality TV show about Alaska. And that's it.
Has she needed courage to face up to her detractors? Not really. Just like Charlie Sheen (and I'm not comparing that drug-addicted moron to Palin except in a very general way) she's getting paid a helluva lot of money to do what she's doing. The prospect of making a lot of money gives you all the courage you need, when all you're faced with is carping bloggers and mainstream media types. Has she displayed the courage she'll need to go up against Karzai or the Iran reqime? Of course not - she's not in the political arena anymore.
She now has less experience than Obama in dealing with the powder keg that is the Middle East, the powder keg that is Eastern Europe, Russia's nuclear aspirations, and so on and so on. Yes, we Republicans don't think he's doing a good job or acting in the best interests of the United States, but the fact remains he'll be able to run on experience, and she...well, she won't be able to do that.
Any Republican woman now in the Congress or Senate - excepting the usual suspects - would be a stronger presidential candidate than Palin.
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