Slate says Palin “the new Spiro Agnew”

This came out on Sept 4, but this is the first time I have seen it. I was basing my earlier post that Gov. Palin is most like Spiro Agnew of any other modern vice presidential candidate on the similarity of their experience. Jack Shafer wrote for Slate that

she’ll play the role of Spiro Agnew to McCain’s Nixon, dismissing reporters’ tough questions as effete, impudent, sacrilegious, snobby, intrusive, unpatriotic, hostile, disrespectful, chauvinistic, “East Coast,” unfair, unbalanced, liberal, biased, trivial, hypothetical, elitist, and as partisan attempts to lasso her with a “gotcha.”

Worse, SalientMan makes almost the same points that I did, and does it a day earlier. Plus makes more comparisons.

I still say that she could also turn out to be Silent Cal (who also had only executive experience). I don’t think that she compares with Teddy Roosevelt. Sorry, Senator: I know that you idolize him but I don’t think that there are many people who are his equal.

You shouldn’t underestimate her, even with her unbelievable interview with Couric. (Why didn’t McCain call Couric instead? I know that She has even less experience, but I’d love to see someone try and “gotcha” her in an interview about anything.)