Don't Hate the Playa, Hate the Dame
By Thomas Lindaman (09/17/08)
What a difference a week can make! Within a week of John McCain picking Alaska Governor Sarah Palin to be his running mate, the Left’s attack dogs were already making her seem worse than the prospects of Jessica Simpson being named Federal Reserve Chair. (And from what I’m hearing, she’s going to buy a matching ottoman for the Fed Chair.)
I know it’s a given in any political campaign that opponents will try to dig up any piece of information they can on each other to throw each other off message. But watching what the Left has done to make Palin look like a worse choice than letting Britney Spears babysit as really taken dirty politics to a new level. Whether it was questioning whether Palin was the real mother of her baby son Trig or bringing her 17 year old daughter into the media spotlight to make it seem like Palin was an unfit mother, there seems to be a visceral hate towards Sarah Palin.
Being the inquisitive person I am, I started to wonder why. It can’t simply be that Palin is a Republican…a gun-toting, strong, intelligent, articulate, unbelievably hot… what was I talking about? Oh yeah, the reason Palin’s being attacked. As I thought about it, I came to two conclusions. One, no matter how depressed I get, thinking of Dr. Phil getting a knee to the crotch always makes me giggle. And two, Sarah Palin is the anti-Barack Obama.
Like the jeweler’s cloth that reveals the flaws in a diamond, Palin’s resume brings out the flaws in Obama’s own resume. While Obama talks a great game about change, Palin actually has changed things in Alaska, and for the better. While Obama thinks being a community leader makes him qualified to run the country, Palin has been responsible for making decisions that in one way or another would prepare her should she have to assume the Presidency. (And while we’re on the subject, what exactly is a community organizer? Wouldn’t the fact they’re in a community be a sign that they’re already organized on some level? I’m just sayin’…)
When faced with the possibility of Palin upstaging the Obamessiah, the Left does what it normally does when one of their idols gets attacked: they start digging for dirt. The problem was that there really isn’t much dirt in Palin’s past, so they started inventing stuff or taking what was there and blowing it out of proportion. Take the “Troopergate scandal.” According to the Freak Left, Palin fired a subordinate for refusing to fire her ex-brother in law because Palin was upset at the ex-brother in law for mistreating her sister. The Freak Left says it’s obvious that Palin was abusing her power for a petty vendetta.
Yeah. Never mind the fact the ex-brother in law used a tazer on a child, was drunk on the job on more than a couple of occasions, and threatened to kill Palin’s dad. It has to be a personal vendetta, right? When the guy who got fired said Palin did nothing wrong, that’s a pretty big sign that there’s no real scandal there. Ah, but that doesn’t deter the folks who think Valerie Plame is an innocent victim and George W. Bush could have stopped 9/11 using a Presidential Daily Briefing so vague that not even Nostradamus could have predicted what would happen. They’ll repeat anything put in front of them. In other words, they’re the political equivalent of Ron Burgundy from “Anchorman.”
There are signs that Obama and his followers…I mean supporters are scared that the race could become Obama vs. Palin, the biggest of which being the amount of money being spent attacking her. And the fact that they’re spending so much money going after someone who won’t be President unless John McCain gets elected and he can’t serve tells me they’re not too bright.
Seriously, if the 2008 election comes down to comparing Obama’s record of talking about doing stuff and Palin’s record of doing stuff worth talking about, Obama loses. Badly. I’m talking “Gigli”/”Ishtar” double feature bad here. But when your candidate has a resume thinner than Joe Biden’s real hair, I guess some people think you have to tear down the great to make the mediocre seem better.
Now you know why I attack George Clooney’s looks so much.
Thomas Lindaman
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