“Just witness the success of Palin, who, as mayor of the hamlet of Wasilla, hired a big-time lobbying firm intimately connected with the state’s now-indicted Republican Sen. Ted Stevens and thus obtained $27 million in federal earmarks during her tenure. As The Washington Post calculated in a devastating report on Mayor Palin’s assault on the federal treasury, her home town of Wasilla (with about 6,000 inhabitants in 2002 when she was mayor) received $6.1 million, or $1,000 per resident in earmarks, almost as much as Boise, Idaho, got this year with a population that is 30 times larger.”

It is also nice how every Alaskan citizen received $3200 this year while the rest of America footed the bill as big oil wrote it off. I am far more interested in how McCain handles the contradiction between his and Palin’s position on windfall oil profits than whether he properly vetted her on her family-values commitment to the abstinence-only teenage sex education program.

And, Curt, that’s exactly what I said last night was that FRED ROCKED THE HOUSE!!!

No Republican elected official or “news” media figure (all three of them) would ever think to attack Sarah Palin by suggesting she needs to stay home and take care of her family.

You folks have tossed over every Democrat /feminist principle all for what? Political power?

In case you had not heard, unprincipled pursuit of power corrupts.

Really classy Fit Fit.

We got at least three months of scandal to work through and just over sixty days until the election!

Actually, I’ve read recently that this _isn’t_ an elitist comment – instead, it’s taken straight (almost word for word) from Alinsky’s”Rules For Radicals”.

I’m not sure that’s much of an improvement…!

Best part about this whole Palin thing…she’s DEVOURING the news cycle.

Or the news cycle is devouring her. Steve Schmidt, McCain’s top campaign strategist, is accusing the media of being “on a mission to destroy” her with “a level of viciousness and scurrilousness” about questions in her personal life. Schmidt said she is “under siege” by the news.

Now she refuses to testify:
http://plavwriter.blogspot.com/2008/09/palin-refuses-to-testify-in-troopergate.html

So, has McCain’s campaign lost control of her public image?

First you have this revelation:

(WP) Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was not subjected to a lengthy in-person background interview with the head of Sen. John McCain’s vice presidential vetting team until last Wednesday in Arizona, the day before McCain asked her to be his running mate, and she did not disclose the fact that her 17-year-old daughter was pregnant until that meeting, two knowledgeable McCain officials acknowledged Tuesday.

Then there’s even high level advisers in the campaign who say they opposed the pick, and they’re leaking details about the vetting process to undercut the pick. That certainly is stoking the media coals.

Now there are stories of Palin’s husband’s membership to a radical Alaskan secessionist group.

Then Tucker Bounds makes a fool out of himself on TV, then McCain cancels his Larry King appearance.

I think it’s fairly certain the campaign has lost control of the media and her public image is in contest with RNC’s portray of that image.

Fact is, the RNC ends this week, but not the media ‘devouring’ her.

Her authenticity outshines Obama’s fluorescent halo!
Give’em HELL, Palin!

I worry about Bristol though. I know Sarah can take it. We have a 17 year old pregnant girl with all those hormones circulating in the blood. Anyone married with kids knows that a pregnant woman can get mood swings. At just 17, it is hard to imagine what it feels like to have yourself on the cover of magaiznes and on the front page of the New York Times. And all of the articles are critical. Living in the pressure cooker could break this young girl. I don’t want to be a drama queen, but I could see a miscarriage or even the nightmare scenario of her attempting some drastic act and hurting herself. When the mainstream media targets a 17 year old girl for political gain it is a trainwreck waiting to happen.

I can’t believe how far they have taken this, and I am cynical as hell to begin with. This is the lowest point in politics during my lifetime. The attacks on her family have made me emotionally involved in this campaign. I am angry that this has happened. I pray for Bristol to get though this and find strength. I worry about her mental health and the health of the baby.

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