Bill Kristol refuses to acknowledge what a shit stain on his career Sarah Palin turned out to be.

I love the question that comes in from the viewer, which is "Does he have a better pick than Sarah Palin this time?" I think that clearly indicates that most people think that Sarah Palin is an embarrassment for both Bill Kristol and the McCain campaign.

However, much like McCain, Kristol is unable, or unwilling, to recognize what a colossal blunder it was to scoop her out of the wilds of Wasilla and thrust her onto the national stage.

“I was for taking the gamble of putting her on the ticket, I don’t think it hurt the ticket in 2008,” he said. “In fact, the best two weeks for the McCain campaign against Obama 2008 were the two weeks after he picked Sarah Palin. Then she had a little bit of a rough patch, she was mishandled by the McCain people.” 

Yes those were the two weeks BEFORE Palin was allowed to talk to the press. Once she was no longer a pretty object just to look at, and people heard for themselves how incredibly stupid she was they started to run away in droves.

Even people who once supported McCain could simply not support his choice of Sarah Palin. Hell his own senior adviser, Nicolle Wallace, could not bring herself to vote for him after that terrible choice.
 

“I think her stepping down as governor of Alaska was a big problem,” Kristol said. “People don’t like to see a candidate, a governor or an executive—absent some medical reason or whatever—just leave office early. And she had been a good governor, sadly, of Alaska until then. So I think that is something she has to recover from, in terms of being a serious leader in the party. She still has a lot of loyalty, still can shape the debate. She still has a great political touch.” 

“I think the way Palin would possibly resurrect herself—if that’s the right word—or rehabilitate herself, I guess is a better way of putting it: run for Senate in Alaska in 2014,” Kristol said. “I’m not urging that. I’m just saying, if I were her adviser, I would say, ‘Take on the incumbent, you have to win a primary, then you have to beat an incumbent Democrat. It’s not easy.’ But if she did that, suddenly, if you can imagine that—Sarah Palin, freshman senator, January 2015 in Washington having beaten an incumbent. That would be pretty interesting.”

Now see THAT is the folly of not recognizing why Palin failed so incredibly the first time. What everybody should have recognized after 2008 is that she simply CANNOT run a campaign that receives media scrutiny.

During her political career in Alaska she was protected by a domesticated media that so desperately wanted to sell advertising space that it could not bring itself to challenge the popular new Governor.

Here in Alaska she simply was never challenged. However all of that has changed and the media is chomping at the bit for another crack at the Mama Grizzly. And she knows it.

She will NEVER subject herself to it again. You could almost say that she is a...let's see...what's the word? A wussy?