Kathleen Parker graduates from Democrat Party University

Completing her metamorphosis from solid conservative to pandering beltway liberal, Kathleen Parker’s latest column “explains” why Caroline Kennedy’s “experience” makes her more qualified to replace Hillary in the Senate than Gov. Palin’s “lack of experience” made her to be VP.

Don Surber sums up Parker’s viewpoint:

People like Kathleen Parker and Peggy Noonan wanted to be with the winner and so they left.

Fine.

And on the way out, they flipped the finger.

Republicans are owned by Christian conservatives, they said. Get a moderate.

Hmm.

Didn’t we do that this year with John McCain?

How’d that work out?

Parker blamed Sarah Palin for Parker’s departure from the Grand Old Party.

Palin was not ready for the big leagues because she is politically inexperienced.

Up pops Caroline Kennedy and Parker is all agog again. Like me, she heard the song “My Daddy Is President” as a child and well, she thinks Caroline Kennedy is still 5 years old.

So Parker wrote a column for today in which she extolled the virtues of Kennedy over Palin.

In Parkerland, Palin was the one who had it easy. Why she changed her name from Sarah Heath to Sarah Palin. The hussy.

“Not so Kennedy, who, upon her marriage to Edwin Schlossberg, never changed her name” Parker wrote.

Well, except for the time when she called herself Caroline Kennedy-Schlossberg.

To borrow a phrase from Obama, this is not the Kathleen Parker we once knew.

Anthony (Los Angeles) says:

December 19, 2008 at 12:47 pm

Completing her metamorphosis from solid conservative to pandering beltway liberal,

I’ve started using the phrase “cocktail conservative” to describe all those elite conservatives (Noonan, Parker, Brooks, i.a.) who were more concerned that they keep being invited to all the right parties than with good governance. Iowahawk wrote a screamingly funny parody of the Noonan and Brooks of the world. Someone should send Parker a copy.

Trish says:

December 19, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Why do I seem to be the only one not surprised? I never thought KP was any sort of conservative.

Great White Rat says:

December 19, 2008 at 4:38 pm

From Parker’s column:

Among her qualifications is an ability to raise money and broker deals on the weight of her name. That such power is endowed by birthright doesn’t diminish its political value.

What?? Fundraising and backroom deals are prime qualifications for a Senate seat?? I’m shocked, I tell you, SHOCKED!

So much for “Change We Can Believe In”.

Lorica says:

December 19, 2008 at 6:00 pm

You know, I was going ot comment on this, but the stupidity and bias stands for itself, and really need no further comment. I am glad that people like Parker, Noonan, Leach, and Powell are leaving our party. Good bye fools, don’t let the door hit you in the tush on your way out. We just don’t need fair weather friends. – Lorica

Leslie says:

December 20, 2008 at 11:20 am

GWR,

“Change we can believe in”–in New York??!! I’ve said this before. This is merely a legal version of what that idiot Blago in IL tried to do.

Caroline’s $$$$ pay for her Senate campaign and Paterson’s gubernatorial campaign. (And for Caroline’s 2012 campaign, too.) Boss Tweed would have been proud.

Mike Bloomberg gets the City Council to repeal term limits so he can run for mayor again in 2009, and no doubt will enthusiastically back (with $$) City Council Speaker Christine Quinn’s mayoral campaign in 2013. Boss Tweed would have chortled.

All the GOP can do is see if Rudy wants to run for one of the statewide jobs, and he’s probably passed his sell-by date by now anyway.

Ah well. Caroline has a great haircut. No doubt the journos are already burning up their Blackberries trying to find out where she gets it done, and by who, and how much it costs.

PS—when Caroline leaves the Senate to become Secretary of State in the Chuck Schumer administration, Mary-Kate Olsen should be old enough to take the Senate seat (or would you prefer Ashley?).