rove disses palin

Karl Rove unburdens himself to a British newspaper:

“With all due candour, appearing on your own reality show on the Discovery Channel, I am not certain how that fits in the American calculus of 'that helps me see you in the Oval Office’,” Mr Rove told The Daily Telegraph in an interview...

...Mr Rove, who remains a major force on the US political scene, also implied that Mrs Palin lacked the stomach for the rigours of a presidential primary campaign, which will begin early next year before the first polls in 2012... “You can make a plausible case for any of them on paper, but it is not going to be paper in 2011. It’s going to be blood, it’s going to be sweat and tears and it’s going to be hard effort.”

Rove has clearly been reading Marbury.

This is interesting not just for its content but because he says it publicly - which implies that the man who understands GOP politics better than anyone else has sized Palin up and decided she's a loser.

Comments

[Lyle]

Rove...Osborne...who next? (reading Marbury, that is)

As Palin's plausibility fades, which Republican(s) does Marbury see as best-prepared for the blood, sweat, tears and 'hard effort' of the race for 2012?

[ejoch]

If only in the running was...
http://fivebooks.com/interviews/mitch-daniels-on-how-libertarians-can-govern
I don't think he's interested though.

[Ian Leslie]

I think it's Mitt's year.

Although Mitch Daniels would give him a run for his considerable money - and from what I read it sounds like Daniels is taking the prospect of running very seriously.

[15step]

I read it as him worrying that Palin might actually have a chance and his comments, along with those he made about the tea party, are ones that are aimed at trying to cut the whole thing off at it's knees.

[ejoch]

So pleased to hear there's a chance Daniels might run. If only non-US citizens could donate, after all, we care about who the leader of the free world might be!