Bill Kristol calls for Sarah Palin to jump into the Republican race for the presidential nomination
In advance of the Iowa caucus—the first chance for votes to be cast in the GOP presidential nomination contest—Bill Kristol has an editorial in “The Weekly Standard,” titled “A Time for Choosing.”
Those who have stood aside—and who now may have concluded, as they may not have when they announced their original decision, that the current field is lacking—will surely hear the words of Thomas Paine echoing down the centuries: “The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands by it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.” Now is not a time for leaders to engage in clever calculations of the odds of success, or to succumb to concerns about how they will look if they enter the fray and fall short. Now is a time to come to the aid of our country.
Well, Bill Kristol and his inside-the-beltway ilk have been holding out for Sarah Palin to come rescue us for a long time. They are irresistibly charmed by her outside-the-beltway ways; they adore her bluntness, her ability to effortlessly connect with the values of everyday Americans in the heartland, her comfort in her own skin, her fearlessness in confronting the 24-hour liberal-media-attack-machine, her obvious and deep Christian faith, and her impatience with the oft-repeated lies and presumptions that rule a place like Washington D.C.
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I admire—I really do—Bill Kristol and so many other conservative pundits of note for their simple and touching dedication to the notion of a Sarah Palin candidacy. But guys, I have to tell you: It’s too late. Yours are like the dreams of a child who didn’t do his homework, and imagines an unforeseen blizzard will keep him from having to go to school. Palin isn’t getting in. The field of candidates you see is the field you have to choose from. Let your solid and luminous conservative principles lead you to making the correct choice from amongst this group.
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