Are you authentic?

Gingrich on Palin:

The great threat to the Obama-Biden ticket can be captured in one word: authenticity.

There is something unaffected and "unsophisticated" (in the Columbia, Princeton, Harvard and University of Chicago meanings of the word) about Governor Palin. She really was point guard of a state championship basketball team. She really is a competent hunter. She is a hockey mom. She has one son about to go to Iraq. ...

This is a moment of stunning authenticity versus a sad collapse on the part of the Obama campaign from " change you can count on" to politics as usual ...

Gingrich is trying to make a virtue out of ordinariness. If that's so, why not just pick a name out of a hat?

As an argument, it's not going to work.


posted by Quiddity at 8/31/2008 01:23:00 AM