Caroline the New Sarah

TW: Them my friends is fightin' words. If I were Caroline I would seriously be looking for Victor David Hanson in order to administer a sack attack.

Thankfully the Economist comes to her rescue...kind of.

From the Economist:
"VICTOR DAVIS HANSON likes to write his columns from a parallel universe much like our own, except that he was right all along about everything. His take on Caroline Kennedy's troubled (we're a news cycle away from calling it "disastrous") Senate un-campaign is a case in point...

Quoting Hanson: 'Compared to Sarah Palin's almost immediate immersion into crowds and public speaking, Kennedy seems like a deer in the headlights before the media that is either ignored or asked to submit written questions. Palin was a natural; Kennedy can't finish a single sentence without "You know" or "I mean.'

Does Mr Hanson know what a "natural" is? Mrs Palin was the most incoherent candidate for national office of the television era. Her "you know" was "also", which she reached for as a kind of rubber cement for disconnected talking points. It was painfully obvious when Mrs Palin was speaking without notes and speaking on one of the many issues she'd had no background in before a briefing from the presidential campaign.

Quoting Hanson: 'Conservative Palin endured liberal Charlie Gibson's glasses-on-the nose pretentiousness, and Katie Couric's attack-dog questions; insider Kennedy I doubt will meet with either, much less sit down with a hostile questioner like a Glenn Beck or Bill O'Reilly.'

Well... why would she? She's not running for vice president alongside a 72-year old man with recurring cancer. There's national interest in her, sure, because she's a Kennedy, but the stakes and the audience aren't the same at all. And when has Glenn Beck ever done a tough interview? He's a loud, charmless conservative with a cable show: was Mr Hanson outraged when Mrs Palin declined to sit with Keith Olbermann or Rachel Maddow? Or when Mrs Palin declined, throughout the campaign, to give a televised press conference?

Conservatives with a little more self-awareness than Mr Hanson should be cheered, in a grim sort of way, by the Caroline situation. It's proof that the political media was not acting out of the ordinary when it portrayed Mrs Palin as dizzy and unable to face their questions. If the New York Daily News will print every "you know" uttered by Caroline Kennedy, this is its new standard for working over political rookies. Mrs Palin got treated fairly and failed; so, seemingly, will Mrs Kennedy."
http://www.economist.com/blogs/democracyinamerica/2008/12/beyond_the_palin.cfm