GOP Pundits Call Palin Choice Cynical

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CT: I also think the Palin pick is insulting to Kay Bailey Hutchinson, too.

PN: Saw Kay this morning.

CT: Yeah, she's never looked comfortable about this --

MM: They're all bummed out.

CT: Yeah, I mean is she really the most qualified woman they could have turned to?

PN: The most qualified? No! I think they went for this -- excuse me-- political bullshit about narratives --

CT: Yeah they went to a narrative.

MM: I totally agree.

PN: Every time the Republicans do that, because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at, they blow it.

MM: You know what's really the worst thing about it? The greatness of McCain is no cynicism, and this is cynical.

CT: This is cynical, and as you called it, gimmicky.

Comments

[old]

Have you seen the Noonan piece in the wall street journal trying to disco out of this? Not word one on what she meant when she used this election cycle's number one buzz word: cynical.

[old]

Oh, I guess it wasn't her. She just said they'd blown it. Doesn't explain that.

[Ortho]

This is my narrative and I'm sticking to it: A Presidential candidate is free to choose anyone as hir Vice-President running mate.

The quoted "open mike" conversation is nothing more than media hacks expressing bitterness over not being able to frame an election, to determine and manipulate its narrative.

[Jodi]

or it GOP strategists recognizing the total cynicism of the choice (particularly apt insofar as Palin is dogmatically anti-choice).