Some Conservative Media Pegged Palin

Republicans and Conservative Media called it about Palin from the Beginning

Quotes as the Republican VP choice was being vetted by the local and national media. 

SARAH PALIN

"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials. You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what to say. You can't say anything. I think they ought to be honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia.' That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."

-- Chuck Hagel, Republican Senator

"The choice of Palin remains deeply problematic. It's clear that McCain picked her because he had decided that he needed a game-changer. The vice president's only constitutional duty of any significance is to become president at a moment's notice. Palin is not ready."
-- Charles Krauthammer, conservative columnist

"The man who would be the oldest to embark on a first presidential term has chosen as his possible successor a person of negligible experience."
-- George Will, conservative columnist

"The most qualified? No. I think they went for (Palin), excuse me, political (expletive) about narratives. Every time the Republicans do that because that's not where they live and it's not what they're good at and they blow it."
-- Peggn Noonan, conservative speechwriter

"She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?"
-- Lyda Green, Republican member of the Alaskan senate (who represents Palin's hometown of Wasilla)

"She's not qualified, she doesn't have the judgment to be next in line to the president of the United States."
-- Larry Persily, who until June worked in Governor Palin's Washington office as a congressional liaison

"(Trying to make Palin) the VP of our country is probably the worst mistake of (McCain's) entire life."
-- Sherry Whitstine, conservative Alaskan blogger

"Most people would acknowledge that, regardless of her charm and good intentions, Palin is not ready for the top job. McCain seems to have put his political interests ahead of the nation’s when he created the possibility that she might fill it."
-- Jim Whitaker, Republican mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska 

"She doesn't know enough about economics or foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion. Palin's recent interviews... have revealed a candidate who is out of her league. If BS was currency, Palin could bail out Wall Stree herself. She should bow out."
-- Kathleen Parker, conservative columnist

"I have been disturbed about the choice (of Palin) from the start, as you know. And I have not seen any reason to feel less disturbed ... She really could be president! And here's where my fellow conservatives really worry me. They are so attracted by the symbolism of the selection that they show no concern — never mind for her executive competence — even for her views."
-- Andrew Sullivan, conservative columnist

"The longer I think about it, the less well this selection sits with me. And I increasingly doubt that it will prove good politics. The Palin choice looks cynical. Ms. Palin's experience in government makes Barack Obama look like George C. Marshall. She has zero foreign policy experience, and no record on national security issues. The McCain campaign's slogan is 'country first.' But question: If it were your decision, and you were putting your country first, would you put an untested small-town mayor a heartbeat away from the presidency?"
-- David Frum, conservative speechwriter and American Enterprise Institute resident fellow.

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