Posted by
Bill Crawford on Tuesday, June 16, 2009 9:07:09 PM
Last year I gave Sarah Palin some unsolicited advice- to stop diving in to the commentary toilets so many people were swimming in, doing their level best to prove to the world that she was lacking the intelligence, perspective and sense for national office.
Well, I was wrong. As cheesy as the process is to swim in after these people and wring their necks, one at a time, she saw what happened to Bush and will suffer the same fate unless she covers her fishing boots with sewage.
She didn't have the luxury of building her reputation on her terms. She was dropped in to a political landing zone last year where she was on every television all at once, with a minimum of prep time. It didn't help at all that the news brokers, especially Katie Couric, approached her with open hostility, on a mission to prove to the world once and for all that she was as stupid as she was provincial.
You live and you learn. I never presume to know everything, even though it sure sounds like it when I talk.
So if a late night talk show host decides to call you "slutty", and renders punch lines about your daughter being the same way, I guess you have no choice but to come out with both barrels. Hell, Harry Truman did when his fully grown daughter was chopped up as a singer by an operatic reviewer. He made public mention of kicking the guy in the junk, which was not mainstream commentary of any kind in the 1940's.
I honestly don't know if she can recover from this to be a viable national political figure in 2012. Newt Gingrich has been out of office for a decade and he still has baggage problems from this process. But I do know now that this will be her only chance. So if she wants to put on some cami's and take potshots at Letterman from a helicopter, I'll be happy to contribute some ammo.