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William Kristol makes a pitiful pitch for Sarah Palin in 2012. My favorite part is where the perpetual Republican cheerleader opines from the pages of the Washington Post:
If you have an anti-mainstream-media and anti-GOP-establishment bone in your body, it's hard not to root for her at least a bit.
Tony Blankley gives us his best Kristol impersonation, asking plaintively:
What is it about Mrs. Palin that elicits such furious bipartisan Washington dismissiveness?
Think about it, Tony.
Richard Cohen reminds us that when we get done laughing at the soon-to-be former governor of Alaska, we should remember how close she actually was to being the President of the United States.
Cal Thomas has some advice for Sarah Palin if she does aspire to higher office:
She should read newspapers so that when future interviewers hit her with questions, she can dazzle them like a "Jeopardy" champion.
By finally being able to answer the question, "what newspapers do you read"?
Eugene Robinson takes no prisoners in his look at Sarah Palin's resignation:
... John McCain should publicly apologize for putting the nation he loves at risk by choosing Palin as his running mate ... The reasons she gave for stepping down are not just contrived or implausible but literally nonsensical ... The thing is, Palin's unsuitability for high public office has been obvious all along ...
There are basically two reasons the political class and the commentariat continue to speak and write about Palin as if she were a substantial figure whose presence on the national stage is anything but a cruel, unfunny joke. The first is fear -- not of Palin and her know-nothing legions, but of being painted as elitist and sexist. [...]
The other reason Palin is taken more seriously than she deserves is that she has a constituency. Heaven help us.
William McGurn, in a complete departure from his usual ramblings, criticizes Republicans. Of course it is about football.
Keith B. Payne isn't happy about the preliminary agreement on nuclear arms-control that President Obama signed yesterday with Russia.
Derrick Z. Jackson connects our increasing involvement in Afghanistan to the recent death of Robert McNamara:
In a conflict where definitions of stability, let alone victory, are a fleeting thing, one of the most important moments in this first year of the Obama administration will be to take the hardest look possible at any assessment beyond the 68,000 troops in Afghanistan. A New York Times story last week reported a district council leader in Helmand Province as saying, “People are hostages of the Taliban, but they look at the coalition also as the enemy because they have not seen anything good from them in seven or eight years.’’ That terrible tension is straight out of the legacy of Robert McNamara.
Jim Hoagland, David Ignatius, and Joseph A. Califano, Jr. all look at the life and times of the late Robert McNamara.
Larry Tye remembers Leroy "Satchel" Paige on what would have been Paige's 103rd birthday.