Friday, October 3, 2008

The Ubiquity of Sarah Palin

She's everywhere. Except, she's also nowhere. By that I mean that she still is playing it coy with the media. Yes, she's had those disastrous interviews with Gibson and Couric, but, much to Andrew Sullivan's chagrin, still no press conference. While her debate performance seems to have satiated her conservative base for now, there is still a significant amount of concern about her abilities.
Here's an open letter to her from the American Conservative.
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Now you’re the latest object of their attention, and you’re probably finding the program a bit confusing. They tell you that the U.S. is fighting “World War IV,” a struggle against “Islamofascism.” We can win, they say, as long as we’re prepared to bomb Iran and build up the national-security establishment at home, just like Reagan did.

Trouble is, your tutors also believe we’re still engaged in “World War III,” the Cold War with Russia. So maybe the Gipper didn’t win that one after all. In fact, neoconservatives like Norman Podhoretz chided Reagan for appeasing Moscow. And when terrorists struck the Marine barracks in Lebanon in 1983, Reagan, instead of “staying the course,” withdrew our troops. Your Beltway suitors prescribe the opposite of Reagan’s strategy.