Sarah Palin

The Democrats often complain about the "politics of personal destruction" when someone says something critical, but no one is as mean and nasty as the Democrats have been to Governor Palin and her family.

When Senator McCain announced her as his running mate, the press and the Democrat machine (often one and the same) went into high gear.  Dumpster diving and sewer swimming for any dirt they could find on the Palins, their relatives, friends and even their ancestors became a 24/7 operation.  Gossip was fact and rumor was king.  There was a huge double standard in the reporting and with Democrat surrogates:  Obama's family was off limits, but Governor Palin's family was somehow fair game.

One of the first lies out of the box was that her son, Trig, was not actually her son, it was her daughter's and she adopted him to cover up the fact that her daughter had a baby out of wedlock.  Except that Bristol was now pregnant and the timing made it impossible for her to have had Trig.  And when it was announced, Palin tried to show support for her daughter in the face of every idiot democrat in the country shouting "SCANDAL!!!11!!"  The Palins did what any parents would do and tried to put the best spin on an unfortunate situation and they were held up to scathing criticism. 

Once it became clear to most that Trig was Sarah's baby, most moved on to denounce her for either not aborting the little monster now in her care or for being a working mother.  "How could she care for her children with a full time job?", They bleated. Palin was even accused of believing in witches and wanting to burn them at the stake.

Even Hollywood got into the act.   Most notably (and recently) was the despicable David Letterman, saying she looks like a slut and joking about her underage daughter having sex with a ball player (and yes, it would have been just as tasteless even if it was meant for Bristol.  Who does that kind of "joke" and what kind of lowlife even finds it to be funny? 

Lawsuit after lawsuit was filed against her in Alaska charging her with every kind of ethical shortcoming .  Never mind that the ones reaching a judge were dismissed, that didn't matter.  The plan was to bankrupt her with endless legal fees and make it seem like she was some kind of criminal - worse than their own Blogojevich problem.  It didn't matter that she isn't crooked - it's important to make her look that way by filing lawsuit after lawsuit.

When she announced her resignation the other day, the left ran wild with rumors of FBI investigations.  Oh they just knew that she was gonna be "frog marched" right out of the governor's mansion - until the FBI said no, she is not under any investigation.

If she was simply going to quit, who could blame her.  After all, the left in this country has tried every wrench in their "politics of personal destruction" tool box to destroy her.

I (and most other people) don't think she's going to disappear.  I think in the next few months, we'll see the new "sarah-cuda"; ready to take the fight to the next level.

The left is afraid of her.  If they weren't, they wouldn't spend all the money, time and use every opinion vehicle they can find  to undermine her.  This will be interesting to watch.

VW

Comments

[BobF]

I once had a preacher who said you can tell the character of a man by what he stands against and who stands against him.

The fact that you've got the vilest scum of the Democrat party standing against Sarah says a lot about her character. Although, I feel she should have finished her term as governor, time will tell if she made the right decision.

Alaska need to change its law to state that anyone filing a frivolous ethics complaint against the governor which proves false, is responsible for all expenses encountered by the state and governor. I think that will put an end to these baseless lawsuits and complaints.

[Bloviating Zeppelin]

It will, in fact, be interesting to watch, but I fear she's shot herself in the foot and the wound will turn to be, in time, fatal.

BZ

[Bloviating Zeppelin]

BobF: that should be true NATIONwide:

LOSER PAYS.

Period.

BZ

[Scott]

"…I fear she's shot herself in the foot and the wound will turn to be, in time, fatal."

I dunno, BZ: one of the most intriguing comments I heard about her early resignation concerned what she could do *not* as governor: namely, come out as being against "big government" (and the stimulus package money) that she otherwise would basically have to take on behalf of Alaska. It *could* turn out to be very shrewd. Either way, her approval numbers were dropping and she was embroiled in constant legislative fights with her State congress; ultimately, this might be to her benefit.