Karl Rove : Sarah Palin Lacks the ‘Gravitas’ to Be President
Karl Rove determined to tell the world how he actually feels concerning the words “President Sarah Palin.” On Deal with the Nation this Sunday, Rove ducked a question about regardless of whether Palin was fit to run the country, declaring her “formidable.” But he was much more candid with the Daily Telegraph:
“There are high standards that the American people have for it [the presidency] and they require a certain level of gravitas, and they want to look at the candidate and say ‘that candidate is doing things that gives me confidence that they are up to the most demanding job in the world’. . . With all due candor, appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus of ‘that helps me see you in the Oval Office”
As evidence of her lack of solemnity, he pointed to the commercial for that her show in which she referred to her career as a public servant “in some stuffy old political office.” Rove additional that “outside of the true believers,” Republican main voters are still searching to see who’s up for the job. But why do we get the feeling this signifies puppet-master Rove has his applicant all picked out? In any situation, we enjoy the attempt to elevate campaign rhetoric from “cojones” to “gravitas.”
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