Post's Broder Says Palin Tea Party Speech Was "Pitch Perfect"

David Broder

Washington Post columnist David Broder is referred to as the "dean of the Washington Press Corps." Well it might be time for the Dean to retire. His latest column is a fawning a love letter to Sarah Palin and her recent speech at the Tea Party convention.

(I think Broder may have scored some Viagra and is hot for Palin.) One of the problems with the newspaper business if you have fossils like Broder, who have been in place for years, and no one dares to question or even challenge.

Broder said that Palin was "pitch perfect" and hit all the conservative and populist notes. Maybe Broder is getting senile, because most media pundits widely condemned her speech, which was the usually grab bag of GOP talking points, strung together in Palin's grammar-free style of talking.

Also Broder needs to remember that Palin was speaking to a group of assorted nuts who believe that the president was born in Kenya and one of their speakers advocated bringing back racist voting laws. Huffington Post Editor Simon Whatley describes the Tea Baggers as a "national embarrassment.

Broder goes on to say that Palin may pose a challenge to GOP front runner Mitt Romney in 2012. The GOP had better hope that Palin, who prepared for her big speech by writing notes on her hand, doesn't run in 2012, because a recent Washington Post poll said that most Americans think she is not qualified to lead the country.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/10/AR2010021002451.html