Krauthammer: Palin's "not a serious candidate for the Presidency right now"
On Fox's All-Star panel tonight, Megyn Kelly (filling in for Bret Baier) asks about the viability of Sarah Palin as a Presidential candidate.
Krauthammer:
"Now as to Palin, I agree entirely with what Mara said. She has star power without any doubt. She has extremely devoted following, but she's not a serious candidate for the Presidency. She had to go home and study and spend a lot of the time on issues in which she was not adept last year, and she hasn't, and she has to stop speaking in cliches and platitudes. It won't work. It could work for eight weeks if you're the number 2 candidate, as she was last year. But even so, she got singed a lot in that campaign. You cannot sustain a campaign of platitudes and cliches over a year and a half, if you're running for the Presidency."
Fred Barnes then says Krauthammer is "premature in writing her off", but agrees that "she's got some homework to do, but there's plenty of time to do that".
Later, Krauthammer acknowledged Palin's been the victim of unfair attacks, but returned to his argument that she needs a new stump speech of sorts.
"I would agree on the viciousness and unfairness of the attacks on her ever since her nomination last year, but still that doesn't change the fact that if you want to be a presidential candidate for the Republican party, you have to be able to speak on issues of which she cannot yet, and yes, there is time, but months are wasting away. She ought to bone up, and then I think she would be reconsider as a serious candidate."
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