“Utterly Unqualified” – Mother Jones

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free _Mother Jones Daily_. “UTTERLY UNQUALIFIED”….Fareed Zakaria on Sarah Palin: > Can we now 

admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to > be vice president. She is a feisty, charismatic politician who has > done some good things in Alaska. But she has never spent

 a day > thinking about any important national or international issue, and > this is a hell of a time to start. >  > ….In these times, for John McCain to have chosen this person 

to be > his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible. McCain says that he > always puts country first. In this important case, it is simply not > true. I don’t want to overstate

the importance of this, but it’s definitely a sign that Palin’s jig may be up. Zakaria frequently writes astutely, but he’s something of an establishment weathervane, reluctant to state firm

opinions unless he’s got plenty of company. So if he’s willing to say flatly that Palin is “utterly unqualified,” it suggests that the center-right establishment pretty unanimously agrees

about this. I don’t know for sure that this will have a noticeable effect on the campaign, but when you add it to the growing list of conservatives who have taken similar stands (George

Will, David Frum, Rod Dreher, Kathleen Parker, Ross Douthat, David Brooks, Charles Krauthammer), it suggests that dismay over Palin may be reaching critical mass.