The Cato Institute's Brink Lindsey tries to one-up Peggy Noonan by comparing Sarah Palin's ability to stir sympathetic support with Marion Barry's.
"I see her as kind of epitomizes everything that's gone wrong with conservatism, the red state Marion Barry.
.... A complete clown, who knows nothing about public policy, manifestly unqualified to be Vice-President. I think it was a disqualifying move by John McCain to have chosen this person so whimsically and impulsively.... and yet because liberal elites disdain her, she's got the right enemies, and so people rally around her.
[They think] just because those people hate her, she must be good. Well, just because your enemies hate someone doesn't mean that person's good -- just because they despise you, it may be that you're despicable.... doesn't mean that an incompetent, congenital liar is good for the country.... the conservative base has gotten suckered into a self-defeating love affair with a pied piper."
Without commenting on the content, these kind of internet video calls between two people always seem a bit pretentious.
[Hat tip: Andrew Sullivan]
