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Cal Thomas: Palin’s Baby Made Her Unprepared For VP Race


We already knew that Sarah Palin isn’t a big fan of her portrayal in “Game Change” — despite some staffers’ claims that the HBO movie was dead-on in its accuracy.

But while it’s not popular with most of the big-name GOP set, a Fox News Watch panel on Sunday defended the movie, arguing that it showed the tremendous uphill battle Palin faced just getting prepared for a campaign. Which is fair; objectively, many would argue that Palin was at a disadvantage in the weeks leading up to her debut on the ticket. Unfortunately, the Fox panel pointed this out with a hefty side dish of condescension.

In the clip below, procured by Mediaite, panelist Cal Thomas notes that the movie made him feel more sympathetic toward Palin.

“She was put into a situation she was not prepared for,” Thomas argued. Okay, sure. “She was not able to be a quick study on a lot of the issues,” he added. Yep, true. “She wasn’t ready for the job! I was very sympathetic. She got picked less than a year after having a baby.”

Wait, back up. She was unprepared to run for vice president because she had a baby less than a year earlier? Did the baby drive her mad somehow? Does having a baby somehow make a person incompetent? By this logic, someone probably should have chucked her out of the governorship since she had Trig while she was still in office. Right?

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  • Anonymous

    Cal Thomas has a problem understanding the word irony even when he is the one interjecting it in the conversation.

  • Anonymous

    Nice to see the GOP attitude towards women is at least consistent. Stay at home and raise the kids. It’s a mans world baby.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    That Cal is a Rino.  He was against Palin from day one.  

  • Dan Abramswig

    By this logic, someone probably should have chucked her out of the governorship since she had Trig while she was still in office. Right?

    Palin chucked herself out of the governorship while she was still in office.  First and last smart thing she ever did.

  • http://twitter.com/marionetta marionetta

    Have any of you folks ever met parents who recently had a baby?  (I’m talking BOTH parents.)  Sleep deprived.  Out of it.

    Makes sense to me.  For once, I agree with Faux news.

  • Anonymous

    I don’t think she had that baby. There are several websites where most contributors feel she did not give birth to Trig. She was not prepared at any time. Her lack of preparation had nothing to do with motherhood. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    If Palin went blond she might be able to get her contract extended by Fox.  

  • Anonymous

    Stop viewing conspiracy websites.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TWK2YYJTTIDLZIVV7NKZM23Z6Q Tyler

    I thought her water broke in Dallas?  

  • nikki

    Yeah, but in her case, Todd was a stay at home parent. She wasn’t the sleep deprived one, he was.

  • Anonymous

    That’s what she said. That, too, is a strange story. She didn’t see a doctor before her 8 hour flight to Alaska.

  • Clovis4

    Having
    a baby doesn’t make you completely ignorant of the world at large, which she
    was and by all appearances still is.

  • Anonymous

     Define conspiracy.

  • Anonymous

    Comparing being an Alaska governor with running as McCain’s running mate as VP is beyond preposterous.  No one had even heard of her when she was governor.  Of course the baby slowed her down.

  • http://twitter.com/isleofyouth PhilipJames

    Cal Thomas is just another one of those genius “talking heads” who live in the bubble that most media live in and I guess his “in depth” research involves Game Change (for the free wine and cheese) and articles from this liberal site and watching Bill Maher.
    Another totally useless media type who is over paid for his idiotic commentary.
    All these TV shows are like a newspaper… or a web site…. you have to find a bunch of crap to create the space for all the ads to fit into.
    Wonder just how sucessful any of the TV shows would be if you had to pay for each one individually…  say $5.00 for every 30 minutes. How many would you pay to watch?
    Got it figured out now?  It explains why a witch like Rosie can get a show… why the low life skanks on The View have a show…
    zombie TV watchers turn on the TV and are stuck with a few choices between which show is the best of the crap.

  • http://twitter.com/isleofyouth PhilipJames

    Almost forgot to comment…   if Sarah Palin is so stupid, so unhinged and not running for any office, just a private citizen giving a few speeches, a few comments on TV and posting a few comments on Twitter and Facebook…
    Why are liberals so obsessed with her? Why is the left so intent on trying to attack her? Why is that? After all, she is insignificant… right?
    She pales in comparison to the Messiah… the Great One… the Obama. Right?

  • Anonymous

     She is pretty pale compared to him, I think that’s fairly obvious.

  • Anonymous

     I doubt it was the baby.
    She wasn’t prepared for the national stage intellectually or emotionally. Rather than make her wiser and stronger poltically, she simply went for the easy money of talking about poltics rather than being in politics. Being a media celebrity must be cake compared to actually holding office and having to answer to the public and make crucial decisions about the lives of others.

  • Anonymous

    I knew it was the baby’s fault!

  • Anonymous

    The ones you frequent. I like to call them obsessed.

  • Anonymous

     That’s what you took from the above comment? Wowsa.

  • Anonymous

    Obsession is a better description than conspiracy. The latter indicates some plan.

  • Bblonshine

    Her blatant lack of intelligence made her unprepared for the VP race.

  • Anonymous

     You didn’t realize it was a joke? Wowsa!

  • http://hotair.com/ StewartIII

    FOX News Watch airs on Saturday, not Sunday.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    unlike most politicians she was middle class when she was in office and was financially driven out of the job by frivolous lawsuits.  

  • Anonymous

    Palin is an idiot, needless to say, yet again.

  • Anonymous

    What’s her excuse NOW?
    Sarah still hasn’t doen any homework….
    She wasn’t prepared then or NOW.
    She ‘s shallow in the history dept & I don’t mean the baby pool….

  • Ecwagner

    Middle Class, huh?  Doesn’t have that problem now.

  • Anonymous

     She filed one of the lawsuits herself and refused state assistance. You sure have the spiel down pat.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    *yawn*

    That old claim, huh? It would be very convincing if it were only true… It’s been debunked endlessly, but the Palinistas aren’t interested in the truth of Sarah Palin, because the mythology is just so much more comforting.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    And the lawsuit she filed against herself was the most expensive!
    Also, too, she refused state money that would have paid for a good chunk of the debt. You can’t fill SarahPAC with money if you’re not able to claim eternal victimhood.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    And she had three children old enough to babysit (although Bristol claimed ignorance of what babies are like while simultaneously saying she’d been the family babysitter), as well as her own parents nearby. They dump Trig off with the Heaths plenty of times now, so it seems likely they were as available before.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    She also says she gave birth at Mat-Su… and at Anchorage. So easy to get those two confused if you’re Sarah Palin, apparently…

    Oh… and she was HUGE in the last 2 photos of her, yet the Alaska Airline crew says she didn’t look pregnant at all… and never asked for a seat belt extender. 

    Curiouser and curiouser…

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    Because the GOP and Tea Party has turned her into a near deity and she can’t stay away from a camera. She’s a pundit on Fox, for goodness sakes! It’s not like she went back home, finished her term, and decided to write a book about her experiences. 

    She’s in our face constantly and, for all her complaints about how mean everyone in the universe is to her, she spews venom like a broken water main.  Hard not to notice the adder repeatedly biting your heel.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    It’s just another example of the “lamestream media attacking Trig.”

    Cue well-rehearsed outrage…

  • Anonymous

    Who exactly is the “lame stream media?”

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Neil-Murphy/100000566621491 Neil Murphy

    wonder why monkeyboy felt the need to make a brand new palin attack ad?

    PS drill baby drill seems kinda smart

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Theresa-Darklady-Reed/581698361 Theresa ‘Darklady’ Reed

    Whoever the Palins or their neo-con friends decide to call the “lamestream media.” It’s not like it has anything to do with reality, after all… 

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