{"id":6450,"date":"2008-09-30T11:33:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T18:33:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2008-09-30T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T19:16:38","slug":"former-bush-speechwriter-palin-not-up-to-job-of-being-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=6450","title":{"rendered":"Former Bush Speechwriter: ‘Palin Not Up to Job of Being President’"},"content":{"rendered":"

Expectations for Sarah Palin continue to plummet in advance of the Veep Debate Thursday night. From NYTimes<\/em> today…<\/a><\/p>\n

“I think she has pretty thoroughly “\u201d and probably irretrievably “\u201d proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States,” David Frum, a former speechwriter for President Bush who is now a conservative columnist, said in an interview.<\/div>\n

You can add the comments of Frum, the man credited with coining the phrase “Axis of Evil”, to previous Republican defections from Palin, including Kathleen Parker’s call for her to leave the ticket<\/a>, Laura Bush’s admission that she lacks experience<\/a> to be President, and Fox “News'” sad attempt at hiding an article<\/a> detailing a number of conservatives jumping off the ship. All coming on the heels of the disastrous CBS interviews with Couric<\/a>, which made her look like a Rhodes Scholar in her initial disastrous outing on ABC with Gibson.<\/p>\n

At this rate, all Palin should have to do on Thursday is show up, and not pass out in the middle of the debate, and she’ll be declared “the winner”. For more background, please see Quayle ’88, Bush ’00 and Bush ’04.<\/p>\n[Note:<\/strong> We’ll be Guest Hosting <\/em>The Mike Malloy Show<\/a> this week, Wed – Fri, including during the debate on Thursday night. We’ll be carrying it in full, starting at 6pm PT (9pm ET) followed by a world-class “Bloggers Roundtable”. To hell with Chris Matthews and the professional spinners! We’ll be talking with the folks who have been <\/em>right, instead, for years! Scheduled to be with us so far: Marcy Wheeler of Empty Wheel<\/a>, David “dday” Dayen of Hullabaloo<\/a> and Calitics<\/a> and more to be announced soon. Hope you’ll tune in!<\/em>]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Expectations for Sarah Palin continue to plummet in advance of the Veep Debate Thursday night. From NYTimes today… “I think she has pretty thoroughly “\u201d and probably irretrievably “\u201d proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States,” David Frum, a former speechwriter for President Bush who is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122,252,388],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election-2008","category-john-mccain","category-sarah-palin","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}