Desperation from Democrats
posted at 9:56 am on August 30, 2008 by Ed Morrissey
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Now that almost a full day has passed since John McCain has named Sarah Palin as his running mate, we can already see the themes his political opponents will take in criticizing her. Irony runs through a number of these arguments, as most of them apply more to their own ticket than to the Republicans, and one in particular is just so despicable as to drop the jaw to the ground. Let’s take a tour of these, shall we?
It’s a desperation pick — he didn’t make up his mind until Thursday!
McCain did make his selection on Thursday, but apparently well before the Barack Obama speech that supposedly spooked him into foregoing Mitt Romney or Tim Pawlenty. What of it? When did Barack Obama make up his mind about Joe Biden? Biden had told reporters, “I’m not the guy” just days before finally getting picked as the running mate. Obama was desperate for anyone with foreign-policy gravitas after stumbling through the Caucasus crisis on his own. Paul Begala noted that it appeared Vladimir Putin had picked Obama’s running mate.
Besides, why would McCain be “desperate”? Most Republicans run well behind their Democratic opponents in the summer; McCain gained enormous ground on Obama and was ahead in polls of likely voters before the convention.
Why would he put a small-town mayor a heartbeat away from the presidency?
This is a real laugher. By the same logic, why would the Democrats make a state legislator the actual president? The answer is that Obama is a US Senator of three years experience, and Palin is a governor of 20 months’ experience. Only Barack Obama has spent two of those three years not in the Senate doing his job but running for President. Before starting his bid, he had a grand total of less than 150 days in session in the Senate. Palin, on the other hand, has run her state for more than triple that time.
And let’s remember that Obama is running for the top job, while Palin’s running for VP.
McCain can’t talk about experience any more — he’s shot himself in the foot!
Unfortunately for the critics, this argument doesn’t hold water, either. All four principals are running for the highest executive position in the federal government — indeed, the position in charge of the entire executive branch. How much executive experience does Obama have? None; he’s worked in corporate law, community organizing, and has eleven years as a legislator at various levels. Biden? He’s been a lawyer for three years and a Senator for 35 years, and has no executive experience at any level of government.
McCain at least has executive experience as a squadron commander in the US Navy, but Palin has the actual executive track record that the others lack. She has governed Alaska for 20 months, negotiated a pipeline deal with Canada (which gives her more formal diplomatic experience than either Obama or Biden), was commander-in-chief of Alaska’s National Guard, and so on. Even her more local-level experience is more applicable than Obama’s: she served two terms as mayor, an executive position, cutting taxes and running a small city. Obama served in the state legislature, with no executive responsibilities at all.
Troopergate!
This, at least, qualifies as a legitimate concern, at least legitimate enough that the state legislature has decided to investigate it. Supposedly Palin fired the commissioner of public safety because he wouldn’t fire her brother-in-law, a state trooper who had becomed estranged from Palin’s sister. Mike Wooten only got a suspension, and last month, she allegedly dismissed Walt Monegan over his handling of the case. Palin says that wasn’t the reason, the legislature noted that Monegan’s was a political appointment and he served at the pleasure of the governor, and they have also stated on the record that Palin has been so cooperative that they will not need to issue subpoenas — which hardly sounds like a cover-up.
So what did Wooten do, anyway?
Troopers eventually investigated 13 issues and found four in which Wooten violated policy or broke the law or both:
• Wooten used a Taser on his stepson.
• He illegally shot a moose.
• He drank beer in his patrol car on one occasion.
• He told others his father-in-law would “eat a f’ing lead bullet” if he helped his daughter get an attorney for the divorce.
Excuse me, but any of these four should have been a firing offense, let alone having done all four. He Tased his stepson? He threatened to shoot Palin’s father? No wonder the Palins hired their own investigator and pressed the issue so hard. But if this was the reason Palin cashiered Monegan, why did she bother to wait eighteen months after taking office to get rid of him?
Palin’s pick insults more qualified Republican women like Olympia Snowe, Susan Collins, Elizabeth Dole, Kay Bailey Hutchinson, etc etc etc.
I doubt any of these women feel “insulted” by McCain’s choice, but even if they did, so what? McCain didn’t want a Washington insider as a running mate. None of the known short-listers came from DC with the exception of Joe Lieberman, and Lieberman would have been a special case anyway. He wanted a partner for real reform, someone with a track record of taking risks to pursue change and to clean up politics. All of these women are insiders, and most of them have no executive experience at all — and all of them are Senators. Why copy the Biden pick?
Sarah Palin wasn’t REALLY pregnant — it’s her daughter’s child.
This popped up on a Daily Kos diary and has unfortunately been repeated by bloggers who should know better. The rumor is a weird reversal of the John Edwards story, only this time, critics refute Palin’s maternity. Supposedly, so the story goes, the baby really was their eldest daughter’s (currently in high school), and not hers. The proof? At six months, Palin didn’t “look pregnant”, and supposedly her daughter had mono and took some time off from school. That’s it.
This is, simply, despicable. Babies born to teen mothers rarely have Down’s Syndrome anyway, whereas the possibility for that with a mother in her 40s is about 1 in 20. Athletic women sometimes do not show until late in the pregnancy. The whole rumor rests on the notion that the state’s most visible woman could carry out a fake pregnancy in front of the press while simultaneously hiding her daughter, and then pull a switcheroo — and for what possible purpose? To cover up a teen pregnancy, in this day and age? Give me a break.
The picture below was published at the end of February, and she certainly appears to be significantly wider than we saw yesterday on the dais.
If this is what the opposition comes down to, McCain made the wisest possible choice, and in the process exposed the opposition in a way that could never have been possible with any other running mate.
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Hmmm. I had a hig school teacher named Ron Dondero. Any relation?
ManlyRash on August 30, 2008 at 9:41 PM
“No matter what comes through that door, you’ll stand your ground”.
Gandalf, @ Minas Tirith
BobMbx on August 30, 2008 at 9:46 PM
Hmmm. I had a hig school teacher named Ron Dondero. Any relation?
ManlyRash on August 30, 2008 at 9:41 PM
Had a high school coach by that name in NW Ohio back in the 60’s.
coldwarrior on August 30, 2008 at 9:47 PM
Nope. Eric? You there?
ManlyRash on August 30, 2008 at 9:48 PM
I know. It’s just that when it comes to children, I’m a huge softie. And seeing stuff like this really just ticks me off.
I have a 4 year old niece who is the light of my sister’s life, and this just reminds me of my commitment to her. And it makes me wonder just what exactly I’d do if my sister had such things passed against her.
Sakaki on August 30, 2008 at 9:55 PM
Obama/Biden campaign motto:
F… the women!
dhunter on August 30, 2008 at 9:56 PM
This is the full quote, MB4, and it is obvious that she wants to know what SPECIFICALLY the job would entail in a McCain administration rather than, “What? OMG!! What does VP stand for, anyway?” You and all the rest of your ilk trim it either through ignorance or dishonesty.
Good on ya, and all that.
Troll Feeder on August 30, 2008 at 9:59 PM
Another aspect of that quote to be taken into account is that she was speaking as the sitting Gov of Alaska.
What was she supposed to say?
“VP? Well, I do decla’. That would be el Fabbo. I’d dump this little backwater state in a heartbeat if I could. After all, there so many moose and bear running amok here that a girl hardly has time to reload.”
Explain that come re-election time.
TheCulturalist on August 30, 2008 at 10:12 PM
I’ll tell you one thing the pick did - it convinced me to cast a vote for McCain - something I thought I’d never do because I basically hate him.
darwin-t on August 30, 2008 at 10:16 PM
sanclemman on August 30, 2008 at 10:17 PM
She gave a great answer, as usual, when asked about the VP spot.
So sad the trolls can’t understand the answer!
Thats’ why they are trolls- too dumb to be Republicans!
dhunter on August 30, 2008 at 10:21 PM
Ann’s next book title.
TheCulturalist on August 30, 2008 at 10:30 PM
Great post, Ed.
Re: the pic of the pregnant Palin, here’s the same photo, only bigger, and it’s pretty clear in that photo that she’s not the tiny thing she is now.
SisterToldjah on August 30, 2008 at 10:53 PM
For crying out loud. Will someone please point out that Sarah has MORE accomplishments than Obama? Just shutting down that bridge to no where that she did has saved us almost as much as Obama has cost us with all the tax dollars he gave away to Rezko, Ayers and company. Whats more I thinks she is a dynamite speaker.
Herb on August 30, 2008 at 11:27 PM
The unhinged liberals are pushing the baby belonging to the daugther, possibly incest via Father or brother really hard, now.
http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/3236/horriblebs4.jpg
It’s even taken traction on Current TV, until it was suddenly removed.
Enoxo on August 30, 2008 at 11:57 PM
If that doesn’t make people mad, they’re not paying attention.
Demand blood, and use the green to get it.
Sakaki on August 31, 2008 at 12:09 AM
Don’t dig in too deep on the pregnancy thing. If it’s false it’s good, but if it’s true it might not be bad. (I mean the daughter having the baby, not speculation about the father which is beyond unfounded.)
I don’t know where I come down. I’ve looked at pics of Sarah Palin over time, and could make the case that, as someone said, she was fit and pregnant. A baby with Down’s syndrome is certainly more likely for a mother in her 40s than for one in her teens. And for goodness sake I don’t want to pile on in case this is all about some 16-year-old girl being pudgy in a few pix. But there are a few considerations:
The “broken water” thing could have been part subterfuge, especially if (as reported) Palin was in no obvious state of concern while flying all the way from Texas to Alaska, and then going to a rural hospital in her hometown rather than one better-equipped for a premature birth. And the length of Bristol’s (reported) school absence and reason (reportedly) given entirely fit the standard practice of hiding a minor’s pregnancy……..
And there’s nothing wrong with it.
Did Sarah Palin speak out against abortion and then abort a less-than-perfect child? NO
Did Sarah Palin speak out about the importance of family and then leave her daughter twisting in the wind when (if) she made a mistake? NO
Did Sarah Palin risk her political career to protect her daughter? MAYBE
If the child really is her grandson and not her son, than the election is over only in one case.
If it happened and Palin hid it for her own interest, well, she’s more of a politician than we hoped and the election is still a toss-up.
But if it happened and she did it to protect her daughter, give her a better future, and give her son/grandson the best upbringing possible, from experienced parents rather than from a young woman who is too young to be a mother; if she risked her political future, if she decided that rather than have an empty nest when Piper goes off to college in 11 years she would make the commitment to raise a child with Down’s syndrome possibly for the rest of her life (Chris Burke turned 43 last Tuesday), and if this is revealed gently and responsibly, possibly with a fine paid for falsifying a birth record, well then the election is over and Vice President Palin can pick our her drapes for the Naval Observatory today and the Oval Office for her presidential run in 2016 after two terms as VP.
Maybe Obama can rename his Rezko mansion the Navel Observatory.
raybury on August 31, 2008 at 12:29 AM
I’m beyond speechless you took that long to actually consider a conspiracy from raging lunatics.
Enoxo on August 31, 2008 at 12:44 AM
no kidding…
TheCulturalist on August 31, 2008 at 12:50 AM
Guessing this has already been hashed out here .. but too impatient to read 300 posts to find out …
Here:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/8/30/121350/137/486/580223
(don’t know how to post a link properly yet .. sorry)
This story shows a bunch of photos showing Palin when she was pregnant. In most of them, you simply can’t tell, and she could be .. but in a couple of them .. uhhh ..
And the photo at the end of the page of the whole family shows the daughter in question looking pretty pregnant late into what would be the term.
I know it’s HuffPo .. and I know they’re beyond detestable over there .. but this worries me a bit ..
Someone convince me that last photo was photoshopped, or that’s actually her neice, who was pregnant .. or something ..
cgoode777 on August 31, 2008 at 12:51 AM
‘niece’, I meant
cgoode777 on August 31, 2008 at 12:52 AM
highlight the text of your post that you want to be “linked”, click on “link” above the editor box, copy/paste the site link into the link box, hit enter or “ok”
TheCulturalist on August 31, 2008 at 1:01 AM
http://alaskareport.com/news48/x61145_trig.htm
She looks very pregnant to me in this picture.
Enoxo on August 31, 2008 at 1:01 AM
gracias.
cgoode777 on August 31, 2008 at 1:02 AM
On the other hand .. I’ll sleep okay with the thought that a vetting process like what we have going on today would surely have uncovered this if it were true.
Yep.
That’s what I’m goin’ with.
Yeppers.
cgoode777 on August 31, 2008 at 1:09 AM
They’re just jealous.
I have no doubt in my mind that Sarah Palin would do what she could to protect her family which is one of the reasons I like her.
mary jo on August 31, 2008 at 1:10 AM
first, that does look photoshopped to me
and, if I may be so bold, my second wife, may she RIP, had abs you could bounce a quarter off 3 weeks after having her 3rd son. she was right back down to fighting weight within about 2 weeks. she was pregnant, but didn’t think that was an excuse to eat a grocery store. how many of us have seen women “eating for two”? they eat enough for 2 adults when their baby is the size of a peanut.
my current wife has blessed us with 2 very healthy boys. exact same scenario. she looks better now than she did before she had our children. she is in her early 40’s now and was getting carded if she picked me up a 6pk just a few years ago.
Palin was/is an athlete. she isn’t going to balloon out like so many women do. something a bunch of leftist cows wouldn’t understand.
TheCulturalist on August 31, 2008 at 1:15 AM
This is just one of the many reasons I would never have any desire to be in the public eye. Her poor family, that poor young girl being dragged through something like this…
pannw on August 31, 2008 at 1:20 AM
true, but they are probably up to the task. i’m sure their parents talked to them and let them know what they were going up against.
besides, they may very well hunt moose too…
TheCulturalist on August 31, 2008 at 1:23 AM
Even the photos of might-be might-not-be could be very selective, and the reason I emphasized “reported” so much is the whole thing could be an attack on the daughter from some heathers at her school.
Reject it if you like, you’re probably correct. I’m just sayin’ don’t dig in too deep in case it’s true and, like mary jo emphasized, she protected her kid, making her a better person than anyone on the other side of the ballot.
raybury on August 31, 2008 at 1:23 AM
I can’t believe any of you are even considering this.
I’ve said before, and I’ll say it again — I was a straight-ticket Democrat and a Hill supporter until the moonbats like Kos kicked me right out and into the “Palin for VP, please!” bandwagon.
So let me explain: they’re desperate. They’re saying anything to smear Palin, and they think that applying the same attacks on Hillary (”Appeals to hicks,” “Angry Bitch (vengeance over the Trooper thing)”) to Palin.
It won’t work, because Palin is a great woman and American. Her story is completely unlike Hillary’s. Those charges may have worked on Hillary due to her high negatives, but they will not work on “The Hockey Mom of Five.”
The left blogs have gone insane all freaking day trying to tear Palin down from any and every angle they can. And because of it, you even have a good number of Democrats defending her.
Check the many diaries on Palin over at http://www.talkleft.com for example. Check the comments.
This is going to backfire. And big. You do NOT slander a mother and say her child with down syndrome is illigitimate.
It’s so beyond the pale. There is NOTHING to this story. Just like the Netroots called Geraldine Ferraro a “RACIST!” they’re making any sort of crap up to discredit Palin. But this is beyond the pale.
I just tossed another $25 to McCain in response.
Stay strong, Sarah.
lansing quaker on August 31, 2008 at 2:01 AM
The liberal “moral compass” (for lack of a term that has no letters) is so beyond utterly screwed, I weep for them.
LibTired on August 31, 2008 at 2:05 AM
This goes beyond Desperation from Democrats,..more like defecation from Democrats!Haters never win & winners never hate!nuff said!
christene on August 31, 2008 at 2:06 AM
All the attacks on Palin are really grinding my gears.
Taking her VP spec interview and clipping it so it makes her sound dumb.
Spreading heinous lies about her son’s maternity.
Warping her positions.
I made the mistake of watching Colbert on Palin. I’m so disgusted with it all, I’m beside myself.
Stay strong, Sarah. We’re launching you and McCain into the White House!
lansing quaker on August 31, 2008 at 2:33 AM
My Palin video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quvBbcFDPI0
D0WNT0WN on August 31, 2008 at 2:37 AM
This attack on Bristol Palin should not go unanswered.
mary jo on August 31, 2008 at 3:02 AM
Yep, as predicted: very ugly, very fast. We’re not 48 hours into this thing…
Purple Fury on August 31, 2008 at 3:15 AM
third time’s the charm.
i figured if you were going to take the time to post this all over HA, least i could do is watch it.
nice vid.
i notice they included the “proof” shot from the daughter baby conspiracy.
guess they didn’t think a little baby fat on a teenager would become fodder for fools.
TheCulturalist on August 31, 2008 at 3:16 AM
You know you’ve done something right in politics when your opponent reacts as though you’ve screwed his wife, shot his dog, and kicked him in the balls in one day.
Sarah Palin stunned them so hard it took a day and a half.
The best answer to the attacks on her daughter is to go forth spread the word about their lunacy and get her mom elected…..
then the idiots over at the KOS will be having cows themselves and not so worried about hurting kids.
sven10077 on August 31, 2008 at 3:40 AM
it won’t, in November
TheCulturalist on August 31, 2008 at 3:43 AM
what we ask them to do is “keep on firing” if they are so wrapped up in attacking her they forget that they are running against McCain so be it. If the MSM wants to do a rectal exam on her every day at some point the electorate will wake up and go…..
“hey wait a minute the most important thing in the world is whether or not Palin managed to fool the entire state of Alaska on her pregnancy and the press can’t be bothered on Rezko, Ayers et al……?
Barry’s been getting fistfuls of passes from the electorate because frankly the American public is instinctively uncomfortable with how radical he may be and does not want to go there……attacking our Annie Oakley in these ways may wake up a lot of people doing back-flips to give “the clean articulate kid” the benefit of the doubt.
sven10077 on August 31, 2008 at 3:48 AM
TheCulturalist on August 31, 2008 at 3:43 AM
It’s on.
mary jo on August 31, 2008 at 3:50 AM
McCain? They haven’t even figured out they’re not running against Bush yet.
Ronnie on August 31, 2008 at 3:51 AM
yup.
that’s the problem for camp Obama. their base is full of loonytoons.
they are unreasonable by nature, so how can they be controlled?
even better, it bleeds over into the MSM and they think they are “on to something”
TheCulturalist on August 31, 2008 at 3:54 AM
It was dirty job, but somebody had to do it.
YiZhangZhe on August 31, 2008 at 5:05 AM
I know this is over the top, but Sarah just really … I think I’m feeling a tiny bit of what the French soldiers might have felt the day that St. Joan of Arc (at age 17) led them to lay seige against the English at Orleans.
She’s the kind of woman who if she picked up the colors and charged, I think I’d follow.
And I’m only 1/4 French!
And the last bong I touched was 22 years ago.
Sapwolf on August 31, 2008 at 6:06 AM
Got to chime in here.
The family picture, where her daughter is shown to be allegedly pregnant was taken two years prior to the baby being born. 2006, I think. They’ve even acknowledged that much on DU…though it did’nt stop them from showing it over and over again as proof.
DngrMse on August 31, 2008 at 6:56 AM
They’re bad people. They have sold their souls for the sense of smug satisfaction and superiority that liberalism offers them. These people are hardcore leftists. They don’t want to beat her. They want to DESTROY her. And that just tells us how scared the little darlings are.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=quvBbcFDPI0
D0WNT0WN on August 31, 2008 at 7:01 AM
Just thinking…
What would a Democrat do in the hypothetical situation they present with their accusations that the baby was the daughter’s and is being covered up by the family.
Abortion would be their answer.
Why put your family through the scandal of it all. Why go through the gyrations and manipulations this cover-up would require.
They are trying to say Palin has no morals and would cover up her daughter’s pregnancy.. but are counting on Palin’s morals to not choose abortion to a very damaging situation, if you believe their story.
They can’t have it both ways…
mollymack on August 31, 2008 at 7:29 AM
Well, I cant say I hate McCain because I dont, but I dont trust him one iota. He likes his maverick image too much and you cant trust a maverick.
But, because of his picking Palin, I’m closer to voting for him than I was a couple of weeks ago. And then the alternative of not voting for McCain is President Obama. That sticks in my craw even worse than voting for McCain.
abcurtis on August 31, 2008 at 8:09 AM
Daily Kos and the DU are treading on thin ice (something the Alaskan Saracuda Palin knows about). If they start questioning the origin of Baby Boy Trig Palin, they will need to address the origin of Baby Boy Barack Obama. Weren’t those COLB’s forged, and is he a Kenyan-Indonesian-Canadian-American or what??
gracie on August 31, 2008 at 8:28 AM
The leftist smear machine is in full effect. The socialists at Digg are claiming Palin’s daughter was pregnant and not her.
Can’t attack her policies or character…make something up!!!
The followers of the Audacity of Hype and his VP Plugs must be getting desperate
http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/Sarah_Bristol_Palin_and_the_Baby_Cover_Up?OTC-ig
If anyone here has Digg accounts, I ask you to please log in and bury this crap as inaccurate. That way it will be noted as inaccurate and the story won’t appear on the front page.
bentman78 on August 31, 2008 at 8:50 AM
It’s ok, bentman78…prenatal chromosomes, delivery and birth of baby boy Trig Palin, son of Sarah and Todd Palin are of record…unlike the beginnings of BO. I know women like Saracuda…she will wait for the moment and pop the questions, “What about you Mr. Obama, who are you, where were you born, who’s your Momma and who’s your Daddy and by the way, could you tell us a little more of your many citizenships?” They have taken on very principled woman and will not survive it if they persist.
gracie on August 31, 2008 at 9:07 AM
Doesn’t baby smearing sound familiar? Hasn’t it been done before? Wasn’t it tried by people who wanted Bush to win in 2000. Now, in 2008, the Obama voters are doing it. Obush is so desperate to win, that he has to try to smear babies. If John McCain offers the same policies, Obush offers the same baby smearing.
Statistically speaking, it’s far more likely that a child would be born with Down Syndrome with a mother of Sarah Palin’s age, then that of one who is in her teens.
Palin had great reason to hide her pregnancy and not discuss it. The fact it brought unwanted attention to Jane Swift, means any shrewd female politician would avoid it for as long as they could.
Finally, if you’re willing to lie on such a fundamental level, why keep the baby, especially with a child that suffers Down syndrome. Having had an abortion would have been a private choice, that none would know about. To fake a pregnancy and hide a daughter would be an incredibly difficult task.
amazingmets on August 31, 2008 at 9:27 AM
Sarah Baxter, Times Online:
Baxter sounds like an ugly whore dissing the nice girl. The joke is on Baxter, grasping at false illusions as she attempts to sling mud. Baxter is used to slamming wimps and weenies, and is about to learn a lesson about Baxter’s own vulnerability, targeting Baxter’s own unpopularity for our consumption at the bonfire marshmallow roast of public opinion.
Palin wears her gorgeous locks back and up, neither slob nor priss, but a la natural and down to earth professional. Palin’s hair does not resemble the teased beehive belonging to Marge Simpson. Show and tell time, Baxter; print your own photo.
Palin’s attractive rectangular eyewear are the fashion most shoppers find currently at LensCrafters or Pearls. “Retro” would imply cateye or hippy miniature wire squares or circles on the end of the nose, or oversized googly octangular frames a la the young Elton John. Such juvenile bullying, calling an adult “4-eyes” is Baxter’s ‘best shot’. Another elitist jab, as though the majority of American readers wearing glasses over 40 can afford laser eye surgery or must choose contact lenses over frames in order to be seen as acceptable.
Craig Ferguson sure got it right, and that really got under Baxter’s skin. Bwahahahahaha!
Looking forward to the Sunday coffee talk on Fox in 20 minutes.
maverick muse on August 31, 2008 at 9:35 AM
Guys, it’s ok…baby boy Trig Van Palin is Sarah and Todd Palin’s baby…guaranteed. What’s more that baby is loved..and will not be smeared.
What’s happening with Philly lawyer Phil Berg’s lawsuit against Obama who must certify his origins and citizenship to continue runnning for President. Obama has been served with the suit but why hasn’t MSM addressed it?
gracie on August 31, 2008 at 9:42 AM
I so enjoyed hearing the Democrat spokesman on NPR this morning expose the huge flaw in their campaing as PALIN with McCain will sweep the public’s desire for change via ethics reform in Washington, and he admitted his own fear!
maverick muse on August 31, 2008 at 9:46 AM
gracie, as the MSM will only address their own DNC-Marxist agenda, the responsibility to research and expose resides with the individual. And since the internet is the life-line of information today, all the more reason to defeat Democrats whose agenda it is to destroy public access to information and conversation as experience in Beijing.
maverick muse on August 31, 2008 at 9:51 AM
So true.
And a nice nod to The Dark Knight there.
My kitty says:
Et tu Brute on August 31, 2008 at 9:57 AM
So far I’ve seen a few left articles this morning saying that they think Palin was the wrong pick, that Palin does not worry them in the least, etc. I think that’s Dem code for “Well, looks like we lost this one.” However, they also say they have a few bombshells about Palin they’re going to drop…(as soon as they get their best Hollywood screenwriters to come up with them).
Tuari on August 31, 2008 at 10:43 AM
So what’s the after-action report on the first weekend of Liberals vs. Palin? So far we’ve seen these major lines of attack:
1. The same media that thinks Barack Obama is fully qualified to be president has tried to insinuate that the far more experienced Palin isn’t ready for the veep slot. Paul Begala actually tried to reinforce this attack by suggesting that the support of millions of the same idiots who nominated John Kerry and John Edwards automatically makes Obama qualified. Tactical analysis: a grenade that blew up in their faces one microsecond after they pulled the pin.
2. The media has tried to float dark insinuations about ridiculous non-scandals like “Troopergate” to see if anything sticks. Tactical analysis: a halfhearted feint of no strategic importance. Their guns jammed when they remembered their own candidate is waist-deep in Chicago machine corruption, and his veep is best known for committing a crime. Forces committed to this attack retreated in disarray under cover of darkness.
3. Incredibly, the media’s fanatic cannon fodder has tried to float a story that Palin’s not the mother of her own son. Tactical analysis: suicide attack that is likely to result in a few high-profile, incompetent squad leaders being executed by getting tossed under the bus. Expect a statement from Obama next week, saying these are not the nutroots he thought he knew.
4. The high-level talking heads have prepared a complex attack plan to suggest that McCain’s choice of Palin somehow means he isn’t serious about the War on Terror. Tactical analysis: likely to be drowned in gales of laughter from an electorate that can’t help but notice Obama is still standing there, befuddled, trying to figure out of the surge worked or not. Will turn into a full-blown rout when the first photos of Palin’s son deployed in Iraq are posted.
5. The Democrat faithful are considering a psy-ops campaign based on Palin’s pro-life position. Shrieking moron scouts have been deployed to chat rooms and message forums, to try suggesting that Palin is a lunatic who would chain pregnant rape victims to delivery beds and force them to bear their mutant hell children. They believe this is the equivalent of waving a flashlight and shouting “Ooga booga!” at a tribe of frightened primitives. Tactical analysis: will solidify support for McCain-Palin among committed pro-lifers, have absolutely no effect on committed abortion fanatics, and seem ridiculous to a general electorate that has been trending pro-life for years anyway. They might want to save this one until abortions are significantly more difficult to obtain than drive-thru hamburgers.
Did I miss anything?
P.S. I hope the Secret Service chooses “Naughty Librarian” as Palin’s code name when she’s VPOTUS.
Doctor Zero on August 31, 2008 at 10:53 AM
Does anyone think about how horrific this rumor is on Sarah Palin’s teen daughter? The entire nation is questioning the paternity of Trig and without proof saying that this is the daughter’s child! The poor daughter still has to go to school and read the “news” making these accusations.
Barack Obama says Michelle is off limits even though she is an adult running around giving speeches, yet in 24 hours the liberal left has managed to pull Palin’s daughter into the fray and accuse her of having had a child! This is beneath even low gutter politics.
katablog.com on August 31, 2008 at 11:05 AM
I’m with darwin-t: I swore I’d not vote for McAmnesty. I still won’t, but I will cast a vote for Sarah Palin - I can’t help that McAmnesty happens to be on the same ticket.
katablog.com on August 31, 2008 at 11:09 AM
I asked this question on another thread:
Sarah Palin may have an 80% approval rating as Governor, but certainly she has enemies in Alaska, even within the GOP, who would love to do her in. You don’t upset the good old boy network in a place like Alaska without leaving some people seriously hating you. How plausible is it that any scandal like this would not have been ferreted out by the folks back home, but some Kos kid in his pajamas in Paramus, NJ has found it out??
I mean, come on people. Occam’s razor.
rockmom on August 31, 2008 at 11:20 AM
Am I the only one who is considering the source on this obviously slanderous story? The kooks at KOS actually have credibility? Why give them any more than the paltry amount that they already wallow in?
lindensg on August 31, 2008 at 11:33 AM
Someone ought to rewrite this Digg page ASAP…!
I can’t handle the truth…!
J_Gocht on August 31, 2008 at 11:44 AM
There’s no way to bury on Digg, it’s out of control. It’s consuming the entire internet. Everywhere I go, people are talking about it, and if you point out the picture they’re using of the daughter is from 2006 they say so, that just proves there’s no real picture because she was pregnant.
It’s absolutely ridiculous, and I expect before the end of the week it’ll get into the mainstream media (it’s already starting to make traction on outlining news websites).
This is going to blow up in their face big time, and they’re going to be left moping for another eight years wondering why they’re not winning elections.
Enoxo on August 31, 2008 at 11:59 AM
This was started by the nutroots. Although, Republicans in Alaska did start another scandal, involving the safety commissioner, that has her pending investigation looming. Andrew Halco, the Republican she beat for Governor, is spearheading that attempt to get her impeached.
Enoxo on August 31, 2008 at 12:01 PM
Never interupt your enemy when he’s making a mistake.
Just let it ride. The reaction from the right over the rumor is what is feeding the frenzy. Allow the child to have it’s tantrum, it will soon cry itself to sleep.
BobMbx on August 31, 2008 at 12:08 PM
The world can be a dangerous place. If you were out huntin’ moose, wild boars, or bear in the wild’s of the world, who would you rather have leading you? Sarah Palin or Obama/Biden?
DfDeportation on August 31, 2008 at 12:13 PM
This is the left. The more they slowly realize that their guy is not guaranteed, the more slimy and disgusting their charges and claims will be…It is what they do.
JIMV on August 31, 2008 at 1:18 PM
But Melanie was pregnant for about two years in Gone with the Wind so it might could happen in real life - like martin sheen might really be a president or jane fonda might really be a geopolitical expert and charlie sheen might actually be a soldier and they need to give back by making sure they never loose the 100% write offs on everything they do
katalog - I hope the response to this is swift, because two innocent children are involved in this disparagement
I hope the perpetrators pay out of pocket for this.
mary jo on August 31, 2008 at 1:35 PM
Doctor Zero on August 31, 2008 at 10:53 AM
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Will Palins’ son in Iraq be photographed with whichever of McCains’ kin are also in the sandbox?
Mew
acat on August 31, 2008 at 5:45 PM
Dem. Sen. Claire McCaskill backflips on the need for experience.
When it’s Obama against Hillary, experience isn’t necessary. The lack of experience is refreshing!
When it’s Sarah Palin, it’s “Oh, this lack of experience is RIDICULOUS!”
Too funny.
lansing quaker on August 31, 2008 at 6:22 PM
And the Kos smear hits the MSM.
I hope this utterly sinks the democrats for another eight years.
Enoxo on August 31, 2008 at 9:08 PM
The last photo Kos is using to prove her daughter’s pregnancy is actually from 2006 according to the caption.
Here’s the link: http://www.adn.com/photos/v-gallery/story/509850.html?/1521/gallery/509852-a509987-t3.html
All this hatred on the Left will come back to bite them (and hard).
dugan on August 31, 2008 at 10:14 PM
Aside for the depravity of besmirching a child for political gain, it is truly amazing to sit back and watch the unbelievable absurdity that this woman inspires in those on the left. I can’t wait for the convention.
Anyone want to bet that the viewership blows the Dem convention OUT OF THE WATER.
He He.
Marine_Bio on August 31, 2008 at 11:17 PM
OK, Here are the duties of the Vice President as outlined in the US Constitution:
It is a verrrry short list.
Pelayo on August 31, 2008 at 11:20 PM
What?
Marine_Bio on August 31, 2008 at 11:34 PM
Was there a point?
Marine_Bio on August 31, 2008 at 11:47 PM
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