W’s skepticism over Palin nomination not a big deal
I didn’t find there to be anything particularly earth-shattering about the revelation that George W. Bush questioned Sarah Palin’s qualifications:
This woman is being put into a position she is not even remotely prepared for. She hasn’t spent one day on the national level.
Her candidacy was, at the very least, an improbable rise to national politics and at the very most a product of irresponsible selection procedures and a disturbing game of politics. The general consensus among political insiders a year later is that Palin’s nomination was more of the latter. That conservative pundits like George Will and Charles Krauthammer so publicly expressed doubt about Palin merely affirmed as much. Just imagine what Republican colleagues said behind closed doors, in company of one another instead of the media…which is what Bush thought he was doing. It’s just too bad for him that among his company happened also to be an opportunistic speechwriter looking to cash in on just these types of ‘gotcha’ sound bites from the Bush Administration.
That Bush kept his private skepticism as civil as he did is what is notable.
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