Jonathan Martin at Politico is reporting that Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty launched a missile at Sarah Palin today in his address to fellow Republican governors:
Said Tim Pawlenty just now his RGA luncheon speech: "Drill baby drill by itself is not an energy policy."
Noting that wind, solar, biomass and geothermal must be part of the equation, Pawlenty drew applause from an otherwise sedate crowd.
This convention may prove to be more entertaining than any of us thought! Watching the likes of 2012 hopefuls such as Pawlenty, Jindal, Charlie Crist, Haley Barbour and others cutting Palin to ribbons should be great fun.
Now we know that Palin's enemies aren't only in McCain's camp, or Romney's camp, for that matter. She has enemies throughout the Republican Party. And those enemies are going to do their level best to dispose of her early.
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If she thought the press or Democrats were tough on her, wait until she gets a full blast of those in her own party who want her to go away.
I am looking forward to the next few days of this convention. Palin is still incredibly popular among the religious right and the thick-skulled, "Joe-the-Plumber" base, but the rest of the party knows that her ascendancy would doom the party to even more years of failure.
I suspect we'll be seeing more "revelations" from the campaign trail in the next couple of weeks as the powers-that-be in the party try to push her off the cliff before she straps on her wings.
My prediction? "The Sarah Palin Show" starts on FOX News within a month of her term ending in Alaska. She'll be the new Bill O'Reilly -- just as loud and just as dumb, but a whole lot sexier to the drooling, predominately-45+male audience the network will be left with after four years of an Obama administration.
Update [2008-11-12 15:13:53 by Bob Johnson]:
Now it's turned into a McCain Bash-Fest!
Martin at Politico is reporting these quotes from GOP consultant Frank Luntz and National Review's Byron York:
Luntz:
"He's (Obama's) got 10 million names and our candidate doesn’t know how to use this," Luntz continues, holding up his BlackBerry in the air. "There is a problem there."
"Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than John McCain," Luntz cracked drawing laughs.
York:
"You need to have a candidate who most Republicans actually like. John McCain's problems with Republicans caught up with him."
Sweet! But didn't McCain's camp claim he invented the Blackberry?