Monday, September 01, 2008
So That’s What Desperation Looks Like
I was just watching MSNBC and not paying too terrifically much attention. But it caught my ear when the talking head on duty started talking about questions concerning Sarah Palin’s past--and in the list of questions that, apparently, the media still needs to explore Todd Palin’s arrest for a DUI some two decades ago. When he wasn’t even married to the woman.
That’s news? That’s an attack on Palin’s readiness for the post of Vice President?
Hilarious.
There are things that could still come out about Palin, I’m sure, that will be legitimate in the sense that they may dissuade voters from showing up to pull the McCain-Palin lever in a few months, but this isn’t it. But go ahead and hammer on the meaningless trivia, because the truth is that it only helps the GOP by showing the level of (or, really, lack of) seriousness of the people reporting on this “scandal.”
The truth is, few on the left believed that McCain would choose a woman and certainly didn’t expect Palin. The troops were caught flat-footed by an attack and they are lashing out at any possible bit of dirt (or manufacturing that dirt as needed) to try to take a little shine off of the McCain-Palin ticket. It’s understandable (and, in some cases, despicable--especially from a man who has trumpeted the virtue of privacy previously), but likely fruitless.
Palin is an open book on her policy beliefs, though, and that should give the left enough talking points to engage their constituents. I hope that much of the din will die down in a week or so and the talk will turn to policies instead of unplanned pregnancies--and if people follow the example of hilzoy, that’s precisely what will happen.
While we wait for the furor to die down, we could even rejoice and consider the deeper meaning of other things happening in our world. More important things, perhaps.
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The genius of all this is that it largely broke during a holiday weekend when a hurriance was bearing down on the Gulf. Will all of this be remembered in a week or will it be like Obama’s speech last Thursday?
Heh. It’s amazing how quickly the speech faded from the front pages, isn’t it? That had to drive Obama and his strategists right up a freakin’ wall.
She is bringing this own herself, pretending to be superwomen with regard to her pregnancy. Back on job, day 2. I know all pregnancies are not the same. Crap, I wanted the down time, before I went home.
It will not be about the daughter, many women are questioning her judgment with having a special needs child. You know that being a “good” mother is in question here, as for all women, whether ever verbalized of not or even justified. Women vote, and some women on the right will think somethin’s not right.
I didn’t like the idea of her being VP candidate, with any possibility of her ticket winning. It wasn’t about her personal life, but seeing the way she has handled the rumors by announcing her daughters pregnancy, I really question her judgment. It would have been better to explain it as a reason her daughter had not been seen during the campaign, if asked. It is really none of our business.
The troops were caught flat-footed by an attack and they are lashing out at any possible bit of dirt (or manufacturing that dirt as needed) to try to take a little shine off of the McCain-Palin ticket.
Maybe Obama is the Messiah. His miracle is turning water into mud.
What further proof is needed that the National Enquirer is now the GOLD STANDARD of American journalism?