Seems that Mark Levin has had enough of conservative criticism of Sarah Palin – especially that being leveled by Charles Krauthammer. The DC Caller has the story:
…”The gentleman points out that Charles Krauthammer who is extremely thoughtful and measured in his words, even-tempered and so forth is all but that when it comes to Sarah Palin and very few of his arguments are substantive.”
However, Levin asked where she is wrong on the issues.
“Maybe there is one or two, but off the top of my head, I can’t think of any significant issue where Palin is not a conservative and where I disagree with her,” Levin said. “Can you?”…
I’ve long been an admirer of Krauthammer. He is one of the most intelligent and perceptive observers we have…but he does seem to have this blind spot about Sarah Palin. And he’s not the only one – plenty of people on the right, especially in the punditry-class, make objection after objection to Sarah Palin. But I’m with Levin on this – there aren’t any substantive criticisms being offered.
The only thing they can really hang their hat on is that Palin is, supposedly, “un-electable”. Well, so was Ronald Reagan. For that matter, so was Barack Obama. Think about it. Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton? Both needed a split opposition in order to have their political carcasses dragged across the finish line. Only a relative few Presidential candidates have ever been “electable” in the sense of there being no particular objection to their election – Dwight Eisenhower, Ulysses Grant, George Washington…everyone else had to have a series of lucky breaks and a lot of opposition errors to get in there. Sarah Palin is no more un-electable than anyone else out there.
This doesn’t mean that Sarah Palin can do it – or that she’ll even try. There is a possibility that she’ll opt to be a political king-maker in 2012 and beyond. There is a lot of advantage for her in such a role – great deal of power and influence without the burdensome responsibility of actually being President. But if she tries then whether she will win or lose won’t be based on a pundit’s estimate of her “electability” but upon how well (or badly) she campaigns combined with how well (or badly) the other side does…and, of course, with a backdrop of the course of events (if we’re sitting at 15% unemployment in October of 2012, Obama is pretty much done no matter what…5% and he’s pretty much re-elected).
If you don’t want Sarah Palin to be President, then tell us why – tell us what policies she is advocating which will be detrimental to the United States. Tell us precisely why you think the voters – 17 months from now – will certainly not decide to award her 270 electoral votes. Tell us why you know she can’t win – don’t just tell us she can’t. And if you can’t build a rational argument against her, then maybe the problem isn’t with Palin, but with you?
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