Does it get any more contemptuous than this?
Stephanopoulos: OK. Well, let me ask you a different question, though. What do you make of some of the criticism that Sarah Palin has -- has gotten over the last couple of weeks, including from many conservatives coming out of her interviews this week? Kathleen Parker wrote in the Washington Post this morning, "It's increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn't know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions require her promotion."McCain: It's a free country. I'm so excited . . .
Stephanopoulos: You don't agree?
McCain: Listen, I'm so excited about the reaction that Sarah Palin has gotten across this country, huge turnouts, enthusiasm, excitement. She knows how to communicate directly with people. They respond in a way that I've -- that I've seldom seen. You know, they can complain all they want to. I'll rely on the American people. The American people have responded to her in a way that's been wonderful. And I've had -- what a wonderful person, a great leader, and the most popular governor in America. The things that she's done are exactly what we're going to do in Washington. Kathleen Parker, if that's her name, go right ahead and criticize.
As a Democratic partisan, I should be licking my chops over stuff like this, but man oh man, does this guy have some kind of unconscious political death wish, or what? It's like this: Kathleen Parker, and Rich Lowry, and Kathryn Lopez and the other conservative Post/NRO/Corner people, much like their counterpart bloggers on the Left, are widely read (and from what I can tell, respected) by thousands of the most energized and politically attuned Republican diehards. Does Huggy want to alienate these people, too? I mean, how many bridges can you burn in the span of two weeks? I guess we're finding out.
---Vitelius
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