What Palin should have said to Couric about the Supreme Court
The blogosphere and the punditocracy made much hay yesterday over Sarah Palin’s inability to name a Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade with which she disagreed. Does it bother me? Yes. But not as much as some of the hand-wringing critics who, unlike Palin, are lawyers with instant recall or commentators who make a living chattering about SCOTUS cases on the lecture/cocktail circuit. I would have loved it if Palin had been able to reel off Plessy or Kelo or Grutter or Bakke. I’m concerned that she blanked, but not ready to jump off a cliff. The Beltway/Manhattan crowd seems to have forgotten that her appeal to the base was not that she was a slick intellectual, but that she was one of them. Hockey moms aren’t going to be as upset about her non-answer answer as academics and think-tank dwellers.
All that said, I like reader David’s suggestion:
Here’s how I wish the Palin-Couric exchange would’ve went:
Couric: Can you name any other Supreme Court decisions you disagree with?
Palin: Off the top of my head, no. Roe v. Wade is clearly the one that stands out above the rest. But the average American out there isn’t worried about whether I can rattle off a bunch of Supreme Court decisions. They are worried about making their mortgage payments, keeping their jobs and sending their kids to college. They trust the Supreme Court to make those decisions. What they want from a President and Vice President is someone who will appoint Federal judges who fairly interpret the Constitution and adjudicate accordingly.
Now, let me ask you a question, Katie. You interviewed Senator Biden recently. So when you asked him this same question, would you care to share with me his answer?
Couric: Well, I didn’t ask him that question.
Palin: You didn’t? Why not? He’s a VP nominee. I’m a VP nominee. Don’t you want to know what Supreme Court decisions he disagrees with? Why are you only interested in my perspective on this?
Couric: …………. (Katie) Crickets chirping…..
I especially like the “Off the top of my head, no” part. Palin should remember tonight that it’s better to just acknowledge that she doesn’t have a ready answer if she doesn’t have one in response to gotcha questions like these. It avoids painful circumlocations and evasions — and makes clear to viewers that she’s not intimidated or insecure.
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Update: Thanks to commenter DougT — Couric did ask Biden the SCOTUS case question. He named…a decision that overturned one of his pet pieces of legislation, the Violence Against Women Act.
And here’s how Joe “Mr. Judiciary Committee” Biden botched the Roe question.
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Even if she had answered that way, Couric would have just edited it out of the interview.
I would have the case of the US vs Florida supreme court in the Gore recount fiasco. Remember, make every vote count, and count and recount.
It’ll never happen, but that’s the kind of hardball I’d love to see.
Might we anticipate that Gwen Ifill tonight will choose some more obscure SCOTUS ruling and ask Governor Palin’s opinion on it?
I would have liked to see that kind of a response but as kikkimay just said … it would have been edited out anyway … that is the problem with all of the “news” interviews … they get cut down for “time” reasons … and we only get to see the partial responses that fit the MSM agenda …
She should have said,”There are to many to list right now. I don’t think we have enough time here in this little informal interview.”
Couric supposedly asked Biden that question, and he responded with the SCOTUS decision that overturned one of his own personally sponsored laws.
except for the military, and only those who reside, living or dead, in democRAT counties…
The point is that the Republicans running for president and vice president have got to take the gloves off. McCain, acting like a gentleman when the View idiots were abusing him, should have really hit back. Palin, trying to be nice to Katie, should have hit back. About the only thing exceptional done by the “Repub Team” was the refusal to allow an NBC interview – actions have consequences.
Palin needs to be free to be herself – warts and all. And, if she is free to be herself, she will pound Biden into the dust. If she tries to be nice and sweet, then she will lose.
Kudo’s to Reader Dave.
Gov. Palin should keep that line of thought in the forefront.
Frankly, I can’t come up with a SCOTUS decision either. And I STILL think I’m more qualified than Obama or Biden.
I’m more concerned about what my payroll and property taxes are going to be after this election.
I wish she was never introduced to handlers….. she was fine before they started re-shaping her. Hopefully that’s the Gov. Sarah that will be there tonight……
Thanks, Doug. Just updated.
The fact that Palin doesn’t use political-speak is part of her appeal.
She’ll do fine as she goes along. I’m not concerned or worried.
I love this Michigan State professor’s take on the dual interviews.
Like him, I’ll choose humble ignorance over arrogant ignorance any day. You can guess where Palin and Biden fall into these two categories.
I don’t understand the ledge-worthy mania from our side’s elites. The average American couldn’t answer that question because, really, people don’t walk around thinking about Supreme Court decisions. It wasn’t her best moment, but I’m willing to bet many people are grateful she’s not a polished, hot air-spewing faker.
I admit I couldn’t come up with another case in the time that a conversation would have “demanded”. Remembering it’s TV cameras on as well.
Thinking about it a few moments, I can name at least 10 more – though I couldn’t cite the case by name in most of them.
Are we auditioning a person for Jeopardy or a person who has principles and governing philosophies which are conservative?
Exactly.
She wouldn’t have had to cite a case by name but she could have referred to the decisions on affirmative action, or the Guantanamo decisions, or the campaign finance laws. These are all decisions that are very important hot topic issues for conservatives. Her problem is that when she doesn’t know something, you can see she is struggling to find an answer and she just babbles and doesn’t look too bright. And when you’re on television and are running for the second most powerful position in the most powerful nation on earth, perceptions matter.
As we are teaching our children, it’s always best to be nice. But if you’ve tried that, remember that bullies will only respond to a punch in the nose.
One would think she could have at least come up with Boumediene, since she alluded to Obama’s position on it (or rather distorted) in her acceptance speech.
Or maybe she had no idea what she was reading off the prompter.
Multiple Choice
Palin:
1) You can’t be that stupid, can you?
2) OK, you had TV’s first live Colonoscopy, what else have you ever done?
3) Up yours Couric. Oh, they did.
My mother did. My dad taught me to lead with my left and NEVER use a roundhouse- go for the jab and uppercut. Knees were good too.
Hard man my dad. “Don’t go bleeding on your mother’s clean floor now”. Hard man.
Three things to add. One, she didn’t say “Other than the violence against women act”, she left Biden free to pick any case he chose.
Two, Had Palin answered the way Biden did and said, “The Missour death penalty case” with out naming the actual case, then these same Kathleen Parker idiots would’ve howled about how stupid she was for not knowing the name of the case.
Third, other than Roe v. Wade I don’t thing many Americans can name SCOTUS cases off the top of their heads. Police officers and Lawyers, that’s about it (which is just repeating what Michelle already said).
I just find it hilarious that those who are going to vote for the Obama/Biden ticket can manage to critique Palin’s performance during interviews and overlook the innumerable gaffes, missteps, lies and obfuscations from The One… and do so with a straight face (!).
I agrre with you. I am far more concerned with a canditate who can wax eloquently on SCOTUS decisions, but who actin complete disregard to the constitution.
I am convinced that, although she may not be able to quote SCOTUS decisions off the top of her head, she will protect and defend the constitution. Which is more than can be said of Obummer and Biden.
Exactly the question I asked my DH last night when this was on TV. Line up 1,000 Americans who aren’t history nerds (and I’m a history nerd, so I can say that) and you won’t get 3 of them who can name a Supreme Court case other than Roe v. Wade. The 3 who can will say Brown v. Board of Education.
As several others have said, Sarah just needs to learn to ignore the questions and give the answers she wants to give.
“I don’t Know” That’s actually one of the smartest phrases people can say sometimes.
I have a Dr who says “I don’t know” many times regarding my health issues and SHE is the smartest/best Dr. I have EVER had. I’d rather have someone say I don’t know over throwing out some answer that is in left field.
It’s ok to say ” I DON’T KNOW”
Open letter to McCain Campagn HQ: LET SARAH BE SARAH! Don’t pump her full of the talking points BS. LET HER BE HERSELF! She is much more effective as the ‘joe six pack” politician then the “DC insider PC sh#%heads”.
If you don’t undertstand that then on Nov 5 you’ll be scratching your collective head wondering what went wrong!
even if she didn’t know the name of the cases, she should know some of the decisions, like kelo taking away private property for whatever reason the government wants…the recent outrage banning the death sentence for child rapists.
The funny thing is that the DNC has been trying to paint her as an idiot for so long, that they have created a low expectation for her. Now they are trying to rasie that expectation for this debate, and then they will just return to smearing her tomorrow. Palin, the most maligned candidate for any office since Jefferson vs Adams.
I have two cases Palin should’ve brought up to Sea Hag Couric: Ex parte Quirin and United States v. Wong Kim Ark. One should be used as the precedent at GITMO and the other should be overturned!
I’m sure we all would have loved to see Constitutional Scholar Obama answer these questions, but of course one must never question the One.
That being said, Palin needs to come off a lot tougher and quicker than she has. The efforts of McCain’s people to apparently make her more palatable to independents and liberals has become a complete bust (Please, Sarah, please, they seem to be saying, don’t go anywhere near Limbaugh.) We have seen her fall into one trap after another, traps she is obviously smart enough to avoid on her own. Again, the problem is not her. It’s McCain’s advisers and McCain himself. McCain has spent his whole life distancing himself from conservatives and now that he has one on the ticket, he has no idea what to do with her.
Does McCain really does want to win? I’m certain the question has occurred to many. Let’s face it if McCain loses, which seems increasingly likely, Palin will be made the scapegoat. RINOs and establishment conservatives (e.g. NRO) will be only too happy to take it out on her. Brooks and Parker and their ilk will crow to high heaven with delight. But the problem is at root McCain. The ruthless, take-no-prisoners campaigner against even mildly conservative Republicans (remember what he did to Romney?), suddenly goes soft and squishy when he finds himself against liberal democrats.
So good luck in the debate Sarah. Just ignore McCain and his friends and you will do just fine.
Had Sarah said “Kelo” she would have been berated for not knowing it was the “Supreme Court decision in Kelo v. New London” …
Had Sarah said “Guantanamo” she would have been excoriated for naming a specific case … I imagine you could also hold it against Couric for not knowing it could have been any one of dozens … try Rasul v. Bush or al Odah v. The United States or maybe Hamdi v. Rumsfeld … take your pick … the list of cases is quite extensive …
In other words … it was badgering and an irrelevant “gotcha” line of questioning that was pre-designed to make Sarah look bad …
She should absolutely rip the Dems to shreds for their using Fannie May and Freddie Mac as their personal cash cows. She should also rightly tie Obama to the mess.
I’d really highlight Obama’s own comments on the bailout that show his utter lack of leadership.
Go straight for Obama’s throat and ignore Biden.
correcdtion … my last should have read “for not naming a specific case” … sorry about that …
grrr … fingers not working this morning … more coffee … please …
What she should have said was “NO” to the interview.
Why even bother with talking to these people?
Palin: Why don’t you tell me some that you think are the most controversial, Katie? I’ll tell you what I think of each and every one of them.
Katie: I’m the one asking the questions here.
Palin: Oh, so you can’t think of any off the top of your head either?
I tend to think people in the media forget that as a member of a city council, mayor, and governor, Sarah Palin has experience as an executive. She has not been a legislator, nor does she have judicial experience. She is not a lawyer. (Thank God!!!)
The only ones interested in the history of the SCOTUS decisions, unless directly effected, are law students, pundits, and other lawyers. It was obviously a gotcha question designed to show Palin’s incapacity as a legal scholar (read: typical political expert on every topic).
It would be like asking a person applying for a job as a hospital administrator, about heart surgery techniques.
Or maybe you aren’t aware that the teleprompter wasn’t working.
if mcmoron has any chance of winning this nov. he better tell sarah to remember her cramming material, but be sarah baracuda and forget playing by marquis of queensbury rules when you are fighting thug thizzle. the court is stacked against you, just like couric, so swing for the fences. we americans loved you at the convention, trust your instincts and don’t let ifill or biden keep you from communicating jane sixpack american reality. the left has a virtual lock on sophisticated elite snobbery, but not on reality. hollywood sells fantasy, media members from new york sell crisis and communism, go for the people working every day to raise their children, pay their bills, go to church on sunday, and be a good role model to their children and grandchildren. that’s america. and if they love you, who cares what hollywood and manhatten think. the mccarthy hearings of the 50’s centered in hollywood and new york city, and nothing has changed in 50+ years.
Forgive my assumptions, but I’ll bet you:
1) know of Heller
2) support the ruling in Heller
3) do not live in DC
4) are not a law student
5) are not a pundit
6) not another lawyer.
I’ll also bet you have never had an abortion (or your wife or girlfriend or daughter if you are a guy) but I’ll bet you care about Roe.
right_on …
Next time they should make sure Sarah can throw out some extremely obscure SCOTUS decision that Couric, et. al., will not recognize and therefore will have absolutely nothing they can come back with for a follow-up question …
(Hey … I can dream can’t I?) …
The emminent domain case comes to mind but I can’t name it either. Most lawyers could answer that question…oh, case closed!
Obama is showing a lead in some polls above the margin of error. McLoser voted yes for socialism in the Senate yesterday, and so most of us are retrieving our nose plugs. Palin’s future national political ambitions will be hindered greatly by the stench of her association with McLoser. If McLoser/Palin lose, she can return to the governorship of Alaska. McLoser could replace her as a candidate, but they aren’t likely to win, so she wouldn’t really be losing her chance at the Vice Presidency.
So she has nothing to lose. She should tell McLoser to go to McHell, and just rip Biden and the moderator (with a financial stake in an Obama win), no holding back. It’s just about the only thing that might make things better, and it would be nice to see someone on the Republican side fight for once.
Actually, it apparently didn’t. At most it got ahead of her at times. Several sources have said that the speech was delivered as written.
But okay…perhaps she didn’t understand the speech she was reading and/or memorized.
Love that reply sandyb – I need to remember that approach.
oh we want so bad for Sarah to be the real deal.
I just haven’t seen it since the acceptance speech.
I am terrified about how she will perform tonight.
chapoutier
You are most probably correct regarding Heller as it is a recent decision …
However, I don’t think that decision was one that was of great importance to the residents of Alaska where gun ownership is not an issue …
I also suspect that in the SCOTUS portion of the “prep” for the interview they would have concentrated on expecting a question regarding what type of Supreme Court appointments would she support … not a background knowledge of specific SCOTUS case law …
Saying “I don’t know” is better than having to resort to plagiarism as Biden does. I just hope she tries to be herself and I hope Biden tries to be himself. She doesn’t need to be nice all the time though. When she has the chance, she needs to stick it to them. Then she will win.
And several sources said that it wasn’t. Or perhaps you’re just a liar, as usual.
What’s that you say? Politicians and teleprompters… Here Obama show ‘em how it’s done.
That was aimed at right_on, not Palin.
And I really don’t think that anyone expected her to be able to name the exact parties. Heck, I had to google Boumediene to get the correct spelling and I don’t know the name of the other party in the eminent domain case (I did recall New London because I live near there). But just saying “the Gitmo case” or “the eminent domain case” and then immediately going into what type of judges she would appoint would have saved her a lot of grief, assuming she was capable of that.
The easiest and most obvious case for her to bring up would have been the Exxon Valdez ruling from June.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-26MOxH34
Come to think of it…Biden’s response sounded like he KNEW the question was coming. I would not put it past the networks to hand out the questions to Obambi and Biden first. And, I would not at all be shocked if Biden knows in advance what is coming tonight.
chapoutier …
Understood … but as I said … I don’t think that was what they expected for a SCOTUS question and as a result Palin and her “preppers” were caught off guard by it …
Mookie …
supposedly all the Exxon Valdez punitive damages removed by SCOTUS are included in the “pork” added to the bill by the Senate …
That’s interesting. I wonder if she’ll mention it if asked about the pork?
That sounds dirty.
Would be nice if we had a right wing that was busier going after Biden’s botching of that question in a friendly forum instead of the aforementioned hand-wringers (i.e. useful idiots for the left) that are all to ready to tear down Sarah Palin for her answer in a hostile forum.
Enjoy President Obama, useful idiots.
Maybe Palin should have just told Katie what she wanted to hear:
Well sweetie, that’s above my pay grade. I will leave that legal mumbo jumbo to the lawyer type experts like Joe “Mr. Judiciary Committee” Biden who understands the Roe v Wade decision so well and to other lawyers like Barak “Constitutional Professor” Obama who is so well versed on the 2nd amendment and has the knowledge to challenge the first amendment like he has been doing recently.
His views on SCOTUS appointments are so far ahead of there time…I would have never thought to appoint people who’s priority is to “understand how single mothers feel”.
I’m glad she didn’t mention that Anna Nicole Smith Case where she was going after her dead hubby’s money..
I just hope that Sarah does well tonight. She needs to shorten her answers and just be herself, a good stuanch conservative that loves her country and family. Sounds easier to do than it may be as it is probably stacked against her to some degree. Look for the subtle sabotage from the moderator and remember; this is the only chance for most citizens to see and evaluate her for themselves thanks to the main stream media.
Best of luck Sarah !
One thing about the Obama drones, you can’t get them off of thier talking points. I have yet to see an Obama rep that actualy answered a question without repeating talking points.
Sarah, two words for tonight:
NO PRISONERS
Possible (alternative) response:
“I think what the American people are looking for is someone with demonstrated executive experience; the proven ability to make decisions where the buck stops if you will. We don’t need to go through what judicial decisions are right and which are wrong, as much as we need to explain to the American public how we plan to handle those issues which concern them most. These issues are real to all Americans: how am I going to pay my mortage, is (are) my child(ren) getting the best education possible, is our country safe–these are the issues that matter, not what supreme court decisions I agree with or don’t agree with.”
You mean something like this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDJSVPAx8xc
or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqcnjxYiG7M&feature=related
or this?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njy-5X2huFQ&feature=related
All she had to say was “I disagree with any decision handed down by the Supreme Court, or any court, that makes law rather than interprets the constitution. For example, no where in the constitution does it say it is legal to take the life of baby.”
Other than the long shot possibility of naming a justice, what does the office of the VP possibly have to do with anything the SCOTUS does or decides on?
We can’t crawl in Gov. Palin’s head. If she was a lawyer, they’d ask her about something else designed to trip her up. Let’s face it, the Dems get softballs, Republicans get Final Jeopardy questions.
I’m not taking the Couric interview into account at all. There’s no reason for See B.S. to drag this interview out for day after day except to make Palin look bad. This is the same network that brought you Memogate after all. The lesson to learn is Republicans should only do live continuous shot interviews or to insist full raw video and full transcripts be available. Otherwise, no dice.
The day Katie Couric gets the boot from the anchor’s chair, I’m popping champagne. Smug little overpaid wench.
I think Sarah would’ve scored points if she had brought up the decision concerning eminent domain in Connecticut.
I’m sorry but that would have been awesome.
Okay, so let me see if this makes sense – you would have someone from Alaska as President of the greatest country on earth regardless of what she knows.
Would you have Palin perform surgery on your children or would you have a surgeon who actually knows what they are doing?
After McCain loses the election will all of you please move to Alaska?
I stopped watching Katie back in the ’80s. Had I been Sarah, I would have chosen another interviewer. She was not going to win with anyone in the tank for obama.
The elites want to paint everyone as stupid when we differ from their agenda. They have the ideas and we are the lemmings. Sarah may not know all the trivial Washington mind crap, but she has a fresh perspective on how issues need to be examined. McCain has let her down with his mismanagement of the bailout. McCain needed to stand with us on the bailout and demand that those who had the oversight and failed to enforce the current rules show have to resign FIRST and then sit down and make a strategy to fix the mess. Having the present congress do anything without suffering consequences is like having the foxes guard the henhouse against other predators. They screwed us by not doing the right thing and they will screw us with this bailout while some of them will find a way to personally benefit from their own legislation. I DON’T TRUST THEM!!!
No, sorry, staying here to prevent the Marxist Utopia.
I’m worried how she’ll do, but McCain’s losing anyway. Unfortunately I think we will have to deal with that thug as President.
I gotta hand it to you – aside from making no sense at all, that logic is absolutely unassailable.
If green and orange are colors, please cite three supreme court cases that deal with the closure strength of velcro.
2012, Bobby Jindal, Rhodes Scholar vs Obama, Community Organizer. By then it will be stupifyingly apparent how empty his suit really is.
The problem is that this is a common question which every elected official addresses at some point. How could Palin have been surprised? Another problem is that the entire Couric interview came across in a bad way as she spoke in platitudes and general terms. This is all about perception, and the perception to many, is that she lacks knowledge and can’t think on her feet. You can’t tell me that if Obama and Biden put on a the same horror show/comedy act, the Right wouldn’t be howling and mocking.
Lastly, well respected Republican thinkers have questioned her readiness and some have requested that she step down. None of that has been going on, on the Democratic side, since the conventions.
If Palin pulls a Buster Douglas tonight and
wins, doesn’t embarrass herself, I’ll be the first on this blog to pat her butt and give props. However, Buster Douglas turned out to be an unprepared fluke. No matter what happens tonight, I expect Palin to continuously walk into Holyfield’s uppercuts for the next 30 days.Somewhere Dakine is nursing a gin and muttering:
“All he had to effing do was pick Guiliani or Leiberman…Reagan dems and independents would have him sitting on an insurmountable 4pt lead.” sip.
Yep, you’re right Dakine. But McCain sold out to the “base”.
ilovemycountry; don’t prove yourself stupid. enlighten us on what JOB obama or biden have ever had that wasn’t sucking at the government spigot? niether one has ever had a job except in government or government grant charities. niether one could speak without a script on any subject. obama and biden both have proven that with obama not able to carry a thought w/o a teleprompter, and biden is just a joke. stand up chuck for biden and uh uh uh uh uh obama.
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You think it’s over for the GOP this year, AlohaGuy? You’re already talking about Obama’s 2012 opponent.
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You gotta give Obama a little more credit than that, dontcha?
I agree that Jindal SEEMS impressive as a CONSERVATIVE so far, and I’d love to see that matchup. This election has been so nuts, that I literally don’t know if Obama wins by landslide, McCain wins by landslide, or one eeks out a close contest. Your side still has the Rev. Wright card and the upcoming national security “crisis”. Even that’s just my fear, and I just don’t know what to expect on 11.4.08.
I would have loved to here Gov Palin answer KKKatie Couric’s question about “Should Schools Teach Evolution…?” with:
….What I would love schools to teach, is impartial objective journalism. Obviously it isn’t taught anymore and only the Politboro-Gestabo-KGB approved type of journalism is taught.
I wholeheartedly agree!!
Most idiots on the Liberal left forget (if they ever knew) that it was a 7 to 2 decision of SCOTUS that said that the 5 to 4 SCOF decision was unconstitutional. Two of the 7 on SCOTUS also wanted yet another do-over, but the 5 to 4 majority said there was no more time for do-overs.
One more time: SEVEN SCOTUS judges said that the Florida 5 to 4 decision was unconstitutional.
Fixed that for ya.
Ok, it’s a nice suit.
That’s exactly what we’ll need by then.
Touche.
Calling Jindal an “exorcist” isn’t any different (or better) than calling Øbama a Muslim.
Getting back to the point, Jindal has a full and impressive resume as compared to Øbama, and the commentary is spot on when it calls Øbama an empty suit. Jindal has real and successful accomplishments, whereas Øbama has collected titles and positions with little to say about any of them.
Except that I am joking.
And you are right about Jindal, he is very accomplished and the brightest young hope for conservatives in the future, now that Palin has been thrown to the hounds and wrecked her national ambitions for the near future.
Me too.
I knew you were, didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
Couric’s resume:
But she sits there in judgment of Palin.
I figured as much. I stopped trying to glean meaning, intention or (dare I say it?) nuance from posts a long time ago.
I imagine that the little elves of the left will do the same thing to Jindal as they are doing to Palin. I think they will be considerably less successful though.
Speaking of Jindal…
Why didn’t McCain go with Jindal instead of Palin? He’s more well known, more accomplished, smarter, would have fired up the base as much or more…
Seems an odd choice. What does Palin have that Jindal doesn’t?
I think McCain has missed a real opportunity with the financial crisis to show Presidential leadership and take the election. People aren’t stupid. Even people not into politics have a general feeling that Fannie and Freddie and the banking industry made and bought bad loans, Wall Street made a bundle off those same loans all while Congress slept. Now the same set of actors wants to fix it all. The public is not buying it. Either candidate could have demanded that Dodd and Frank and Paulsen not be part of the “solution” (Obama could have tempered it with an ‘if only for appearances’) and laid out a plausible plan. The problem needs bright minds, and McCain could have had the rich wife fly a dozen or two of the best economic minds to Arizona for a 48 hour summit – even inviting Obama to show it’s non-partisan – and then they all emerge with a plan. It makes him look like a leader, the public is less likely to think they are merely being screwed all over again by Congress, and some decent ideas would probably emerge. Also takes away the Dems talking point that because McCain knows more of foreign policy than economics that economics is a problem for him. Obama would go along because he’s a momma’s boy (no offense).
I think Jindal said no earlier in the year.
See. He is smarter than Palin.
I still think Palin could score major points tonight by saying she’d have voted against the pork ridden bail-out bill but that her boss obviously has information that she doesn’t from his meeting at the White House. She doesn’t paint McCain badly – but also shows she’s not backing down from anybody.
To anyone who says this doesn’t matter, please remember that one of the key powers of the executive branch is to appoint judges. Palin could possibly appoint the next judge to the Supreme Court (for life). Don’t you want her to have some knowledge of the court?