Seriously, think about it... Ya'all are internet savvy and political savvy or else you wouldn't be here.

But ya'all are not the quintessential undecided voter. The quintessential undecided voter is Joe Sixpack whose biggest worry is that bowling night doesn't interfere with CSI.. Joe can't name any Supreme Court Justices and doesn't know the name of the paper he reads... Joe knows that Russians are the bad guys and any state that borders Russia is a "front line"...

So, ya'alls attacks on Palin makes as much sense as the Obama campaign's attacks on seniors and disabled people. It's going to backfire..

As to the debates, Democrats are already realizing their mistake on that. Dems have ridiculed Palin so much that she just has to SHOW UP to the debate and she will win..

When it comes to being as negative and mud-slinging as Republicans, today's Democrats are their own worst enemies..

Has there EVER been so much hysteria over a VICE PRESIDENTIAL candidate??

I don't think so... Even McGovern's pick of Terry Eagleton didn't generate this much hoopla...

OK, ya all think that Palin is unqualified.. I get that..

If she is as bad as ya'all say, why all the hysteria?? Why all the disgusting and pathetic personal attacks?? If she is really so much unqualified to even be a human being, let alone a mother or a VP, then surely it's obvious to all.. Right??

So, why all the hysteria coming from the Left??

But methinks ya'all doth protest TOO much.

Michale.....

crossposted to http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/in-defense-of-sarah-palin_b_130405.html
Let's see how long it stays.. :D

They think that by being more insulting and despicable than Republicans, that makes them right..

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Yet, they simply cannot see that they have become the monsters that they claim to fight...

Sad, really..

Michale.....

Thanks for bitch slapping the blowhard, I get so tired off it

Ummm.. YES.. there WAS an outcry. The GOP was race baiting. Period. Get over it unless you think that was acceptable.

Assuming for the moment you are correct. That the GOP was race baiting, I'll use YOUR response..

"Eh, that's just politics.. Get over it."

You see my point??

Why is it OK for Democrats to be nasty and lie and all and it's NOT OK for the GOP??

Sounds like hypocrisy to me..

That's right. It was SOOO unfair to follow up on just HOW being able to SEE Russia gave her foreign policy experience.

Hmmmmmmm I really don't see ANYTHING about Russia in what I posted.. So why bring it up??

But, since you have brought it up, let's examine it.

How is that any different than Obama claiming that being a 5 year old in Indonesia constitutes Foreign Policy experience??

Truth be told, being in such close proximity to Russia is a LOT more Foreign Policy Experience (as CW pointed out) then being a 5 yr old in Indonesia..

First of all, that line "it is just politics" came from George Bush after they smeared John McCain in South Carolina, not from Democrats.

The LINE may have come from Bush, but the ATTITUDE came from you...

The rest of your insults and such simply prove my point..

When it comes to bigotry and hatred and such, there really isn't any difference between the hysterical Republicans and the hysterical Democrats..

Your entire post simply goes on and on about how bad the Republicans are. Fine.. We agree.. But what YOU just can't seem to comprehend is that, as you have so aptly PROVEN, Democrats are just as bad...

As YOU would say... "suck on it".. :D

Have a happy.. :D

Michale.....

You'd think after the last few times you'd think before posting...

The simple fact is, if Obama had been treated like Palin had been treated, Democrats would have gone ballistic.

Oh wait..

Obama WAS treated that unfairly..

And Democrats DID go ballistic..

So, lets look at this.

Obama gets slammed for being a Muslim (a lie), for being too white (racial), too black (racial), and for being "uppity" (racial).

Ummm.. YES.. there WAS an outcry. The GOP was race baiting. Period. Get over it unless you think that was acceptable.

Palin gets slammed for not taking interviews, for being clueless during them, for contradicting her own platform front runner... and...

You know what... bring something that MEANS something.

Secondly, the treatment from the Media and Democrats against Palin was horrendous. You have DEMOCRATS claiming that a woman with 5 kids should be staying at home to take care of the kids, not out in the political arena. DEMOCRATS were saying this!!

That's right. It was SOOO unfair to follow up on just HOW being able to SEE Russia gave her foreign policy experience. It was SOOO wrong that she is running on a Pro-Life platform, but, gave her 17 year old pregnant daughter a CHOICE. It was SOOOO wrong for her to be called what she is, AFTER they tried to get the debates dumbed down; NOT READY FOR PRIME TIME.

It's funny how Democrats will whine and cry about every imagined slight.. Yet, when Democrats make the most disgusting racial and personal/family attacks possible and are called on it, they shrug their shoulders and pooh-pooh it away as, "this is politics"…

First of all, that line "it is just politics" came from George Bush after they smeared John McCain in South Carolina, not from Democrats. So, you already look like an idiot for even bringing it up without researching it.

"Or, as George W. Bush, once told a rightly outraged John McCain--whose wife and daughter Bush's minions had smeared--"It's just politics."

And... back to your tried and true, "blind hatred", "bigotry" (?)...

You want bigotry? Racism? Look to Michelle Malkin from the GOP. Hatred of Bush... yes... and rightfully so. You want me to apologize for hating Bush for his torture? for invading a country based on lies? for outing a CIA op? for letting our country slump into a crisis so bad without hundreds of billions in bailout we revisit the Great Depression? Fuck you. I hate Bush. Just as I'd hate ANY President that gave us that. Suck on it.

They are doing the same thing with Palin. She is Governor of the largest state in the country, that is in a unique position, geographically, politically, historically and ecologically. She has enjoyed an 80% approval rating amongst her constituents.

The simple fact is, an insecure, neurotic ignoramus (as Democrats like to paint Palin) could simply NOT have risen to such prominence.

Ok... I've called you stupid... and you again prove it.

So... a person COULDN'T rise to be mayor... or even GOVERNOR... unless they were QUALIFIED? I give you George Bush. Which makes you... STUPID. MONEY funds campaigns... and campaign PERCEPTION wins votes.

And again you rail at bigotry... look to the GOP for it:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/10/05/AR2006100501548.html

As for logical and rational?

Who in their logical and rational mind wants a person to be one bullet, one heart attack, away from leading this country whose main qualification is she won a beauty pageant, killed a moose, ran a town millions into debt as mayor, and then abused her position as governor... only to hit the national stage a clueless idiot... who has to be coddled?

The simple fact is, if Obama had been treated like Palin had been treated, Democrats would have gone ballistic.

Oh wait..

Obama WAS treated that unfairly..

And Democrats DID go ballistic..

During the primaries, it was ALL whining Democrats, ALL the time.. Hillary Democrats where whining and crying about the treatment from Obama.. Obama Democrats where whining and crying about the treatment from Hillary..

Secondly, the treatment from the Media and Democrats against Palin was horrendous. You have DEMOCRATS claiming that a woman with 5 kids should be staying at home to take care of the kids, not out in the political arena. DEMOCRATS were saying this!!

You have Democrats going on and on about the evils of pre-marital sex and dragging a child into the political arena with vicious personal attacks.. DEMOCRATS!!

CW is absolutely right about pointing out this one small unfairness. Truth be told, he didn't go far enough.

It's funny how Democrats will whine and cry about every imagined slight.. Yet, when Democrats make the most disgusting racial and personal/family attacks possible and are called on it, they shrug their shoulders and pooh-pooh it away as, "this is politics"...

This is EXACTLY why my enthusiasm for Obama has waned so much in the last weeks and months... Almost to the point where I am undecided again.. At the beginning of the GE, he was all about hope and change and being a different kind of politician...

Now, I am beginning to believe that was all just PR bullshit and he is nothing more than an inexperienced and run of the mill junior politician..

As far as Palin herself, I think Democrats are making the same mistake with Palin that they have made with Bush the last 8-9 years are so.

Democrats are so blinded by partisan hatred and bigotry that they wrote off Bush as a moron, an idiot, the devil himself, etc etc..

They are doing the same thing with Palin. She is Governor of the largest state in the country, that is in a unique position, geographically, politically, historically and ecologically. She has enjoyed an 80% approval rating amongst her constituents.

The simple fact is, an insecure, neurotic ignoramus (as Democrats like to paint Palin) could simply NOT have risen to such prominence.

So, my advice to Democrats is to TRY and forget politically bigotry and look at things logically and rationally...

Or else, this will be 2000 and 2004 all over again and the Democrats will surely snatch defeat from the jaws of victory... AGAIN...

Michale.....

Yessss... but, treated unfairly? NO.

We aren't talking about... anything... other than a person who could be entrusted to the safe-keeping of our entire nation.

As much as many rail against hardcore politicians, and I am one of them, I want my nation entrusted to a person READY to take control... who will make GOOD decisions.

And to defend anyone seeking that post who isn't ready for it... is just, to me, wrong.

I fully agree that she may prove to be not ready for prime time -- even right-wingers are saying this now, and that she should be dropped from the ticket.

I just felt that IN THIS ONE INSTANCE she was being treated a little bit unfairly. It actually pained me to stand up for Sarah Palin, but my motto is "reality-based politics" and I have to stick to it no matter what the response.

But, as I said in the rest of the article, I think she's going to look completely out of her league Thursday night.

One of the commenters over at HuffPost came up with a funny line -- it seems to be the "Grand Old Pity Party" when it comes to Palin. Heh. Same commenter also came up with a gem -- "Palintology." Boy, there's a great term begging for an amusing definition!

-CW

So why the hell are they now whining that it's "gotcha" politics, that questions are "unfair", that because she's a woman it is "sexist"?

Why?

Because they are whiners.

They can't win on merit... they whine.. they cry... and I've seen enough of it.

It is simple. Either you are ready for prime time or you aren't. She isn't.

People need to quit trying to "explain". If a person cannot be coherent during an interview, wtf is the person going to do on the world stage? Stutter? Be incoherent at the UN? Have to have some spinmeister say, "but, she MEANT to say"?

She's out of her league. She's BEEN out of her league from day 1. And ANYONE... ANYONE... who tries to defend her being brought to prime time and not being ready needs to go sit down and hang their head.

I don't give a damn if the person is white, black or purple with polkadots. I don't care if they are Christian, Muslim, or Buddhist. I don't care if they are male, female, or had surgery to change sexes.

When you get put on the national stage, you damn well better be able to handle it without excuses.

(I know. I know. The whole elitist argument is a made up piece of Republican propaganda. I mean, c'mon. I know a lot of liberals and here's what they do, they make $30-50K a year as teachers if they're lucky. They don't rule Washington. But the narrative has a great deal of power nonetheless. Look how effective making fun of Bush's idiocy was.)

Just be careful, Joe. That's all I'm sayin'.

...Stan

It will be interesting to see in the debate if Palin can live up to the complete and utter dumbness that most Democrats try to paint her as...

The Democrats have really stepped on their wee-wees in their portrayal of Palin..

By hysterically trying to paint her as a barbie doll, a bimbo or worthless (none of that was on here, to be fair) the Democrats have lowered the expectations of the American Public..

The other theory is that Palin and her handlers have watched the episode of SPIN CITY that introduced Caitlin Moore (Heather Locklear)...

It will be interesting to see the fallout of the debate... :D

Michale.....