CNN's Campbell Brown speaks out about Palin

[apocalypsos]

YES, THIS. God.

Look, I don't like her. I think we all know that at this point. But this bullshit about keeping her away from reporters and keeping them away from her is ridiculous. If the other three candidates in this election have to deal with it, sorry, but so does she. Oh, she might get asked about personal and family issues? So do all of the other candidates. Obama knew he was going to get asked about his family background. McCain knew he was going to get asked about his marriages. Biden knew he was going to be asked about his missteps in the past. Learn to deal.

The longer the campaign keeps her and the media in separate corners, the lower my estimation of her abilities drops. Granted, they didn't start out very high to begin with, but still. This sort of decision-making by the campaign comes at the same time that they requested that the VP debates be altered due to her inexperience with debating, and at the same time that they had her meet with foreign leaders due to her inexperience with foreign affairs (admittedly, this is not a new concept for elections on either side by any stretch of the imagination). But taken together, the McCain/Palin campaign seems like they're almost admitting that they want a politician with very little experience with the media, foreign affairs, and debating -- three major arenas a presidential or VP candidate should do well in -- to be a heartbeat away for the presidency.

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[apocalypsos.livejournal.com]

I think it does have to do with sexism, considering they will argue to high heaven that Palin is capable of being the president in the event of McCain's passing and yet keep asking for all of these silly requests. They're not giving excuses for why they're asking for her to get all of these advantages (which, let's face it, they are when you're trying to lure in low-info voters and Palin comes off pretty well when she's only seen in short sound bites), but what they are doing is assuring the American public that she's capable of doing the job. So which is it? There's only two reasons they could be asking for all of these perks for her -- they know she'll come off as a first-rate nutjob (which is likely, but they won't admit to), or they're doing it because she's a woman. Which is less likely (although with a campaign featuring a man who called his wife a cunt and laughed at Hillary Clinton being called a bitch ... *shrugs*), but if they want to keep telling us it can't possibly be the other one, it means they don't really have a problem letting people leap to the other conclusion.