Memo to McCain blabbermouths: Character is destiny

By Michelle Malkin  •  November 7, 2008 07:00 AM

My syndicated column today takes on the cowardly character assassins in the McCain campaign who are trying to kneecap Sarah Palin. More than 10,000 people signed the petition yesterday expressing thanks to Sarah Palin for stepping up to the plate. (I had to close it off due to liberal hate trolls indulging their PDS. Their comments will be deleted.) I’ll print off the petition and send the whole thing off to the Alaska Governor’s office. The question now is whether John McCain — proud author of books on character and courage, honor and duty — will just sit on the sidelines and let this debacle continue or stand up and defend the running mate he chose.

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The cowardly character assassination of Sarah Palin
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2008

Sunken ships loosen bitter lips. The failed McCain campaign, for all its high-minded talk of honor, duty, and courage, is now teeming with unscrupulous gossip-mongers. Seems the dishy staffers forgot to crack open their copies of Sen. McCain’s best-seller, Character Is Destiny: Inspiring Stories Every Young Person Should Know and Every Adult Should Remember. Rest assured: Their cowardly character assassination of Sarah Palin won’t be forgotten.

The finks turned to Newsweek and Fox News to spread petty rumors about Sarah Palin’s intellect and character. The magazine peddled anecdotes from sources horrified that Palin greeted top advisers at her hotel room – gasp! — “wearing nothing but a towel” and “wet hair.” Fox News reporter Carl Cameron breathlessly reported that his unnamed McCain sources told him Palin lacked “a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate” because, they claimed, she didn’t know which countries were parties to the North American Free Trade Agreement and “didn’t understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself.”

Let’s assume for a moment that the McCain rumor-mongers are telling the truth about Palin (and I don’t believe they were). Who would it damn more: Sarah Palin or McCain and his vetters who green-lighted her for the vice presidential nomination? Don’t need a fancy Ivy League degree to figure that one out.
In introducing her to America, John McCain praised her independence and backbone: She “stands up for what’s right and she doesn’t let anyone tell her to sit down.” The inside snipers are now roasting her for that very attribute – redefined as “going rogue” – because she had the nerve to try and schedule media interviews on her own. The nerve of her!

Palin’s response to the campaign fragging? At a late Wednesday night airport press conference in Anchorage, immediately upon landing home after the election defeat, she smiled cheerfully. The Alaska governor shrugged off the McCain saboteurs saying “foolish things” and said simply: “It’s politics…It’s rough and tumble and you’ve got to have a thick skin just like I’ve got.”

Hollywood savaged Sarah Palin. Journalists mocked her. Liberal blogs slimed her. Opponents cursed her, Photoshopped her, hacked her e-mail, hanged her in effigy, called her a bigot, Bible-thumper, and bimbo, and attacked her husband and children. But nothing Sarah Palin endured during the election season compares to the treatment she’s receiving from these back-stabbing blabbermouths who worked on the same campaign she poured herself into the last three months.

Sarah Palin worked her heart out. She energized tens of thousands to come out who would have otherwise stayed home. She touched countless families. I didn’t agree with everything she said on the campaign trail. But she vigorously defended the Second Amendment and the sanctity of life more eloquently in practice than any of the educated conservative aristocracy. And she did it all with a tirelessness and infectious optimism that defied the shameless, bottomless attempts by elites in both parties to bring her and her family down.

Liberty needs a virtuous people to survive; self-governance requires virtuous leaders.

“Knowledgeability” is a necessary trait in political life, but it is not sufficient. The elitist critics of Sarah Palin, so blindly enamored of Barack Obama’s ability to hold forth for hours on theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, ignored the Founding Fathers’ counsel: Character counts. In times of adversity and crisis, it counts more than IQ points and instant trivia recall and bloviation skills.

“The most important thing I have learned, from my parents, from teachers, from my faith, from many good people I have been blessed to know, and from the lives of people whose stories we have included in this book,” John McCain wrote in Character is Destiny, “is to want what they had, integrity, and to feel the sting of my conscience when I have risked it for some selfish reason.”

John McCain not only failed to make that message stick with the electorate, he apparently couldn’t persuade his own staff to heed his advice and practice what he preached.

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  1. #1
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:08 am, Sergeant Tim said:

    While John McCain spent 5 1/2 years being totured trying to get him to make statements against his fellow troops, some inside his campaign couldn’t wait 5 minutes before trashing his 2008 running mate. Do the latter have an ounce of honor within them? I think not.

  2. #2
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:10 am, et said:

    Attention Former McCain Staffers: Sit down , shut-up and quit embarrassing yourselves and the whole republican party. Sarah Palin was not the reason you lost. Sarah Palin was the reason it was not a landslide for Obama.

  3. #3
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:10 am, SoCal said:

    I hope McAmnesty is real deprressed about his loss… no one deserves it more. He went against us with his open border plans and I just don’t trust or like the little jerk.

  4. #4
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:11 am, mike.musculus said:

    Birds of a feather, McCainanites.
    BTW: yes I held my nose, but as I said: never ever again!

    ————
    My refrain, now & ever again:
    “I have a little list…”
    The Mikado, Act I

    http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mikado/Act_I/Part_Va

  5. #5
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:15 am, ajmontana said:

    Governor Palin is no doubt one of the strongest women in America.

    Hillary couldn’t hold her bathrobe, for that matter niether could Odopey.

  6. #6
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:16 am, bedje said:

    Nothing like a little back biting to put the blame on someone else. Sarah was supposed to be the caboose on the McCain Train. It turns out she was really the engine. Maybe the staffers can get a job at kos, the du or heck, just somewhere in the dem party et al.

  7. #7
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:17 am, CaptOzone said:

    The only reason I voted for McCain instead of Bob Barr was Sarah Palin – I only hope she doesn’t decide to get out of Politics due to the drumming she took from the minute her name was announced; I expected it from the liberals – I was shocked and ashamed from the bashing within our own party.

    Maybe the Revolution isn’t far off…

  8. #8
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:17 am, jjmurphy said:

    Please, someone, publish a list of all the turncoats and backstabbers discovered during this campaign. Then send that list everywhere. The people on it should be barred from ever working on a republican/conservative campaign again.

  9. #9
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:20 am, Ralph Gizzip said:

    In a way McCain’s loss is America’s gain. Now that the Dems are in total control of the Legislative and Administrative branches of the Federal gov’t there’s no way they’ll be able to blame the GOP for the mess they’re going to make. Believe me they’ll try with their willing accomplice the MSM but the American public will know better.

    Having said that we need to take a good, hard look at the GOP members we still have in Congress and get them to elect new leadership. Sorry, KY, but Mitch McConnell did a lousy job as Senate Minority Leader. Lindsay Graham must never hold a position of power in the GOP ever again. In the House, John Boehner tried but was ineffectual in the end. He needs to bow out of the leadership position.

    We need fresh faces that can clearly articulate our conservative ideals. McCain and his staffers have shown themselves to be totally incompetent when put to that task.

  10. #10
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:20 am, Bicyea said:

    Hopefully they sealed their own fate and no one will ever hire any of these staffers again for a campaign. They can blame Sarah for that as well!

  11. #11
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:23 am, Bicyea said:

    By the way, FOX News sealed their fate. It will be a cold day in hell before that station finds its way back into my home!

  12. #12
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:23 am, ajmontana said:

    These are the type of people you need Nanny Cams for.

  13. #13
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:25 am, MacEamonn said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:17 am, jjmurphy said:
    Please, someone, publish a list of all the turncoats and backstabbers discovered during this campaign. Then send that list everywhere. The people on it should be barred from ever working on a republican/conservative campaign again

    Rush Limbaugh says he going to be naming names, Hannity, Levin (I doubt he needs any encouragment), Ingraham…need to follow suit. The elitist snobs and RINOs need to go or we conservatives need to go. There appears to be no common ground to stand on with those people anymore! :(

  14. #14
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:26 am, Craig said:

    Randy Scheunemann? Hmmm..I think so.

  15. #15
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:26 am, Sergeant Tim said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:20 am, Bicyea said: Hopefully they sealed their own fate and no one will ever hire any of these staffers again for a campaign.

    They were working for Rahm all along. It has his smell all over it.

  16. #16
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:27 am, bedje said:

    Ralph, agree and disagree. The left has already said many, many times that it will take more than 12 years to clean up the mess of the current administration. They will not accept any blame or responsibility. Remember Barney Frank on BOR? It wasn’t his or anyone else’s fault that had a d after their name. Just carry a barf bag with you everywhere you go for at least the next 4 years.

  17. #17
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:29 am, FilmLadd said:

    John McCain not only failed to make that message stick with the electorate, he apparently couldn’t persuade his own staff to heed his advice and practice what he preached.

    You’re far too charitable.

    Until McCain speaks out on this, I will remain convinced that he threw the election on purpose for his bi-pola – er – bi-partisan buddies in the Senate.

    I used to think McCain was intellectually lazy and dishonest, and a bit of a slob. After seeing his behavior in this election and in 2000, I think he became the dragon he fought against in the 60′s.

  18. #18
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:32 am, MarcoPolo said:

    I will say it before and I will say it again. This is the neoconservative faction, the faction that gave us John McCain and big government, trying to sabotage the career of anybody who threatens their power.

    They are in trouble, but they’re not going to go away quietly.

    I implore you all to look at what your candidates support before suggesting they’ll be the Reagan to Obama’s Carter.
    Many of them are still the same big government, big spending neoconservatives we claim to loathe.

  19. #19
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:35 am, powerpro said:

    AW MAN!

    I was going to write something too. :(

    I’m sorry I missed out.

    Will you be reopening this at some point after the troll comments go away?

  20. #20
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:38 am, ArizonaNeanderthal said:

    I stand with the “Bible-thumper and bimbo” Governor Palin and affirm: John McCain needs to reach across the isle one more time and stay there.

    Johnny Mac and friends just might have attacked BroBama and Snarky so savagely-and won? But perhaps we are better off with a full blown Marxist out front then with a snake in the grass McCain.

    That Every Man Be Armed–You Too ladies

  21. #21
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:42 am, mike.musculus said:

    And let me clarify:
    by “birds of a feather”, I mean: look to the head: the man that calles his base bigots and racists. Why would you expect any other behavor from his staff? Gov Palin is one of us, so she will be tarred and plutonium-painted. The Country-clubbers absolutely *MUST* destroy her prior 2012!

    They’ll be going after Jindal next, they just started with Palin because she’s got everyone’s attention right now..

    McCain’s redemption in the MSM has already started. He’s still head of the Repubs. Sadly, those of you advising writing-off thr Repubs might have a point: they’re already showing by their noises of capitulationhip that the story Limbaugh tells of the “white flag majority leader” are just too true.

    The Rs like minority status: all the perks without the works.
    said: never ever again!
    ————
    My refrain,
    now & ever again:

    “I have a little list…”

    The Mikado, Act I
    http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Mikado/Act_I/Part_Va

  22. #22
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:44 am, mike.musculus said:

    self edit:

    calles=calls

    Dang, my vpn, (through my home server) is acting up again…

  23. #23
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:44 am, Abingtonjim said:

    Add Campaign Carl Cameron to the list of unprofessional idiots. I’m so tired of these “reporters” and their “anonymous” sources. If they can’t speak on the record then I consider everything they say to be a lie.

  24. #24
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:44 am, A Typical Patriot said:

    bicyea: I emailed Fox about petty meaningless topics like this that serve no purpose except to promote liberal themes. Their answer to me was: We decide what is news and what is not. They are not a whole lot different than the rest of the tabloid MSM, just a little more subtle.

  25. #25
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:45 am, Marshall Russ said:

    These little people were just taking a page from the McCain playbook. I’m not surprised. Republicans always seem to give the opposition the best ammo to be shot with. Where is McCain? He chose her in probably the best decision he has made in a long time.
    Hey, Michele is on Fox ripping these aides. Where is McCain?

  26. #26
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:51 am, jjmurphy said:

    Their answer to me was: We decide what is news and what is not.

    Hmmm, I thought their motto was “We Report, YOU Decide”

  27. #27
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:53 am, HomeoftheBrave said:

    We are now entering dangerous times inside and outside the country. Our “leaders” are drunk with power, exploiting the smokescreen of doing for the “little guy”. Be vigilant! Be prepared! Be armed! McCain’s turn-coat staff not only lacks honor, they are no different than the socialists they were competing with. We must endeavor to continue supporting Palin, Jindal, Pawlenty, etc. and regrow true conservative leadership for 2010 and 2012. This is going to take a grass roots effort. The Obummer crowd will abandon ship within 2 years after no promises have been kept and no money has been made. Then we strike a blow for freedom.

  28. #28
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:54 am, mike.musculus said:

    #26
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:51 am, jjmurphy said:

    Murph! Turn up your hearing aid!
    :wink:

    Fox’s motto is:
    “We report, and we’re snide”
    :grin:

  29. #29
    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:57 am, FamilyMan said:

    ArizonaNeanderthal said: a snake in the grass McCain.

    The old guard is the enemy.
    No capitulation

  30. #30
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:05 am, tre said:

    It seems, folks, that we need to send the Republican party some more e-mails.

    The Republican National Congressional Committee is here:

    website@nrcc.org

    And the Republican Party Chairman Mike Duncan is here:

    chairman@gop.com

  31. #31
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:06 am, purplepeep said:

    May God bless Sarah Palin and her family. America has a new sweatheart and she’s tough as nails!

  32. #32
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:07 am, ajmontana said:

    Good grief, major blizzard going on effecting a ton of people in not a good way and Germaldo on F & F’s says…”only the red states are getting snowed on”

    He’s such an A$$hole.

  33. #33
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:09 am, FilmLadd said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:44 am, Abingtonjim said:

    Add Campaign Carl Cameron to the list of unprofessional idiots. I’m so tired of these “reporters” and their “anonymous” sources. If they can’t speak on the record then I consider everything they say to be a lie.

    Cameron’s glee and schadenfreude was disgusting. I am determined every day to email big O’Reilly head about that word.

  34. #34
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:09 am, jjmurphy said:

    Fox’s motto is:
    “We report, and we’re snide”

    Mike – So true!

  35. #35
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:10 am, FilmLadd said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:07 am, ajmontana said:

    and Germaldo on F & F’s says…

    I thought he got swept away in a hurricane or something?

  36. #36
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:10 am, ajmontana said:

    I wish filmladd.

  37. #37
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:11 am, FamilyMan said:

    HomeoftheBrave said: This is going to take a grass roots effort.

    Exactly right.
    Go to you local Republican meetings. Be quite and observe who the true constitutionalist are. Form small coalitions, then take back your party.

  38. #38
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:13 am, FamilyMan said:

    ajmontana said:
    and Germaldo on F & F’s says

    Fixed it for ya.

  39. #39
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:14 am, purplepeep said:

    ajmontana said:
    Good grief, major blizzard going on effecting a ton of people in not a good way

    Ya mean in the Upper Midwest, AJ? Not a biggee – this is the November I know. :)

  40. #40
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:14 am, GraniteMan said:


    Let’s assume for a moment that the McCain rumor-mongers are telling the truth about Palin (and I don’t believe they were). Who would it damn more:

    As Rush said yesterday; Mccain would not allow any one to go after Obama and crew but he is silent about the treatment of Sarah. These S.O.B.s have NEVER said a word knocking her expertise in energy, executive ability or political skills. It’s all been rumors about her personally and anonomously. Greta said it well, “let’s hear some names of who is saying this.” Sarah is and will be well into the future the leader of people like me who know what a person of character, independence, freedom loving and LIFE looks and sounds like!

  41. #41
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:14 am, Chief RZ said:

    No one can take your integrity if you have it. Only you can give it up. She has it and no one can take it away.

  42. #42
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:19 am, rambler said:

    These backstabing aids may have given the 2012 election to the dems as well. Let’s face it, neither party values women and liberal women don’t value other women, since they can’t take the competition. Inspite of everything, women have been the worst Palin critics. It’s tough to see someone who has is all. Rather than celebrate her accomplishments, she’s been drawn and quartered.

  43. #43
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:21 am, FilmLadd said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:14 am, Chief RZ said:

    No one can take your integrity if you have it. Only you can give it up. She has it and no one can take it away.

    Integrity is one thing. Reputation is something else.

    Big O and his collectivist buddies think long term. They are out to prevent her from becoming a viable candidate in 2012.

    They know that by 2012 they will need a weak and pathetic campaigner (like McCain). BO’s marxism will turn us into zimbabwe and he knows the country will hate his guts by then.

    So Bobby Jindal is next on their hit list. He’s not a stupid man and I’m sure he knows it.

    All I can say is, good luck Bobby.

  44. #44
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:22 am, sandyb said:

    McSame and his “aides” must have been reading “Character is DENSITY” instead. Karma’s a bee-yatch. They’ll get theirs someday. Come to think of it, I’ve heard D’ohprah talk about “what you put out comes back” too. I can’t wait.

  45. #45
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:23 am, Jimmie said:

    On the turn coats….I think it would be interesting to check them out closely….It would not suprise me to find out that they were getting checks from old George Soros as well as the McCain campain….double agents?…would not supprise me a bit…

  46. #46
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:25 am, almiller said:

    I think that it is fair to be critical of Sarah Palin’s merits as a VP candidate (I thought she was fine) but people who savage her as a person are truly evil and vicious people.

    The volume of such attacks on Palin truly disturbs me. It makes me despair for America.

    On the other hand just look at the comments on the Youtube clip related to “Peggy” who claimed that Obama was going to pay her mortgage and buy her gas. This woman is clearly deluded, undereducated and possibly lacking in character but you would be amazed at the number of racist comments. This is unacceptable. Not one word she said can be attributed to her race. Shame on those who made racist remarks.

  47. #47
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:25 am, wayiwalk said:

    ….Hollywood savaged Sarah Palin. Journalists mocked her. Liberal blogs slimed her. Opponents cursed her, Photoshopped her, hacked her e-mail, hanged her in effigy, called her a bigot, Bible-thumper, and bimbo, and attacked her husband and children….

    And the shocking thing is that Lorne Michaels, of SNL, actually spoken well of her – as he actually met her, understood what she was about, was impressed by her and her character, unlike all those who attacked her who were going on their “gut instincts”!

    The people who will like her least are those caught up in the “cult of personality”, rather than those that respect character – and of course from the election we can see that those that follow a cult of personality were gung ho for Barack Obama.

  48. #48
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:26 am, FilmLadd said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:23 am, Jimmie said:

    On the turn coats….I think it would be interesting to check them out closely….It would not suprise me to find out that they were getting checks from old George Soros as well as the McCain campain….double agents?…would not supprise me a bit…

    They did Jimmie. Malkin wrote some articles on that somewhere.

  49. #49
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:27 am, TMoney said:

    ChiefRZ…you’re right.

    Sarah has integrity and she is smart enough to know that it cannot be sold again.
    Her integrity seems to be the kind that was purchased…on a cross.

    Everything I have is for sale, except my integrity; it’s already been bought.

  50. #50
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:28 am, Socky said:

    Don’t count on Senator Honorable to come to the defense of his running mate. AoSHQ reports:

    Just had a tip from a max McCain donor who called their office to find out if McCain would defend Palin. He gave his name and explained he had donated the max, establishing he deserved some amount of customer service.

    “That person,” this idiot insisted, “has already been fired.”

    “You mean Randy Sheunemann? He wasn’t the one smearing her, he was the one defending her.”

    “You don’t understand,” the guy “arrogantly” responds (characterization from source), “He’s been fired. It’s been handled.”

    “You don’t seem to understand. Sheunemann is not the person smearing Palin,” my guy says again.

    “Look,” the guy says, becoming irritated on top of being arrogant, “Senator McCain cannot step out and defend Palin every single time someone says something bad about her.”

    “Can he do it once?”

    Hang up.

    He called back to get the guy’s name. He got hung up on again.

  51. #51
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:29 am, cowtrail said:

    I find it ironic that one of the few people with the courage to speak the truth is Michelle Malkin. The Obama Thought Police and now the Republican Thought Police will be coming for her, yet she shows the courage of our early forefathers, the rest cower in the corner and try to placate the liberals.

  52. #52
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:30 am, FamilyMan said:

    The good news is that the conservative wing of the Republican party believes in our message. We’re not in it for the power or the glory. Our foundation is based on a true understanding of human nature. We understand that our Constitution is the only real protection we have. In the new party we will not compromise our standards for political gains. I believe the American people are ready for clear solutions and party full of Sarah Palin’s.

  53. #53
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:32 am, DesertLover said:

    Every individual that served on the McCain campaign staff should be black-balled from ever working on any future campaign … (I know … RAAAAAACIST) …

    Until the “old guard” and “country club” republicans are pushed out to pasture nothing is going to change … we must all become as active as possible in support of true conservative nominees so that we can take the conservative mantel back from these “democrat-lites” at the top …

    Only then will there be any chance of success at any level …

  54. #54
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:33 am, single stack said:

    The fools trashing Sarah are the same fools responsible for the collapse of the Republican party and the rise of the Obamunists.

  55. #55
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:33 am, FilmLadd said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:28 am, Socky said:

    Don’t count on Senator Honorable to come to the defense of his running mate. AoSHQ reports:

    I knew it!

    Who’s in Arizona on this site? Isn’t it ArizonaNeanderthal?

    Run against McCain for the Senate!

  56. #56
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:37 am, CantCureStupid said:

    So Bobby Jindal is next on their hit list. He’s not a stupid man and I’m sure he knows it.

    All I can say is, good luck Bobby.

    My guess is that Governor Jindal will be spending the next couple of years minding his own business, and tending (very well, I might add) to Louisiana. He may be the Republican’s Golden Child, but he has enough sense to stay under the radar for now.

  57. #57
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:39 am, FamilyMan said:

    These people trashing Sarah are marketing people. They have no true alinement with conservative principles. The product they were pushing failed. They’re just covering their hides in the most cowardly way.

  58. #58
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:41 am, Oink said:

    Thank you Michelle!

    I am calling for a boycott of Fox News, Bill O’Reilly and Carl Cameron until they apologize for their hate-filled Perez Hilton brand gossip.

    Bill O’Reilly is such a freaking blow-hard. Get over it a-hole! Sarah Palin isn’t coming on your show. She obviously doesn’t think you’re as important as you think you are! We learned everything we needed to know about her and she never set a foot in your studio.

  59. #59
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:43 am, FilmLadd said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:37 am, CantCureStupid said:

    My guess is that Governor Jindal will be spending the next couple of years minding his own business, and tending (very well, I might add) to Louisiana. He may be the Republican’s Golden Child, but he has enough sense to stay under the radar for now.

    Hope you’re right, but I think with these collectivists in power, staying under the radar is going to be very, very difficult.

    Big O, Ayers et. al. have been planning this for decades.

  60. #60
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:44 am, FilmLadd said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:39 am, FamilyMan said:

    These people trashing Sarah are marketing people. They have no true alinement with conservative principles. The product they were pushing failed. They’re just covering their hides in the most cowardly way.

    Maybe, but the rot started at the top. It’s McCain’s doing.

  61. #61
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:45 am, MtsEdge said:

    Character is destiny.
    Lack of character means lack of destiny.

    Palin, Jindal, Steele: If you pull out of the Rs to form a new party, I’m with you!!

  62. #62
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:47 am, JohnnyD said:

    The actions of these “un-named sources” has disgusted me. If it wasn’t for Sarah, I wouldn’t have even attempted to vote. But I voted for her, not McCain. How many others did that?
    You are quite right Michelle, they have no character. And may God help them if their names are ever divulged. That list should be given to Mr. Palin so he can (rightfully) defend his wife’s honor. It’s too bad dueling has gone out of favor. I suspect this kind of whisper campaign would not be so loud otherwise.

  63. #63
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:47 am, npphotog said:

    Politics, don’t you just love it? I’ve been a Republican all my life and a conservative that believe in limited government, national defense and security, a free market economy, limited taxes, and Christian moral values. I saw this in Palin, and now they want to destroy her in view of a more liberal agenda, platform, and candidate for 2012 has lot my support and vote.

  64. #64
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:49 am, Rogue Cheddar said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:15 am, ajmontana said:
    Governor Palin is no doubt one of the strongest women in America.

    Hillary couldn’t hold her bathrobe, for that matter niether could Odopey.

    I’ll give it a shot.(steps forward)

  65. #65
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:52 am, MtsEdge said:

    Palin, Jindal, Steele: If When you pull out of the Rs to form a new party, I’m with you!!

    fixed it

  66. #66
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:52 am, TxSkirt said:

    Its the robe thing that gets me. They knocked on the door as she got out of the shower. What was she supposed to do? Answer the door naked? She knew who was on the other side of the door. I have personally answered the UPS man in my robe. I’ve even (gasp!) taken the trash to the curb in my robe. Just proves she is a normal person. Rude would have been to not answer the door.

    Petty little people just annoy the crap out of me.

  67. #67
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:53 am, lgm said:

    MM and misdirection again!

    The embarrassing details about Palin are that she didn’t know the countries in NAFTA, that she didn’t know South Africa was a country, that she personally racked up those huge credit card bills shopping like a maniac.

    It takes more than core values to govern the greatest nation on earth. Palin may share your values, but (quoting mathematician Richard Askey on math education) “Good intentions are not enough.

  68. #68
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:54 am, FamilyMan said:

    “unnamed sources”
    I would like to remove their reproductive source from these “unnamed sources”.

  69. #69
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:54 am, dominigan said:

    Michelle, is there some way we can organize a Conservative action group to start putting pressure on them. I’m seriously in the… “if they want to run to the left, lets start a new party” camp.

    I’m just an IT developer in Ohio. I know nothing about DC politics. Do you have any contacts would start the ball rolling?

  70. #70
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:54 am, RedDog said:

    Sarah is a future threat to the Dems and RINOs both. She must be neutralized early. They will target the likes of Jindal, Ryan, and Pawlenty as well. We are in Stalinist America people, get used to it. There is more to come. Look for the leftist proxies in media and entertainment to launch more operations in the weeks and months to come. They are definitely not squeamish about wet work. Oprah is on board……

  71. #71
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:55 am, JohnnyD said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 7:23 am, Bicyea said:
    By the way, FOX News sealed their fate. It will be a cold day in hell before that station finds its way back into my home!

    Allow me to butcher a Springsteen title:

    “57 channels and nothing something else on”

  72. #72
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:56 am, FilmLadd said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:53 am, lgm said:

    MM and misdirection again!

    LGM, go do your compulsory community service for Obama, you collectivist slave master.

  73. #73
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:58 am, FamilyMan said:

    lgm said:that she didn’t know South Africa was a country

    Prove it you mindless tool.

  74. #74
    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:58 am, babiesgrandma said:

    If it wasn’t for Sarah, I wouldn’t have even attempted to vote.

    Me, too. I wonder what the election map would have looked like without Sarah?

    My husband and I are changing (again) back to Independent. I cannot align with the Repub party the way it is now.

    Sarah 2012!

  75. #75
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:00 am, Ron said:

    What really irks me is that the media are now lining up to interview Sarah Palin so they can ask her more gotcha questions and some improvised geography quiz. Oh, please! Sarah Palin has shown only good humor and patience in dealing with this unbelievable criticism, from “friends” as well as foes. I wouldn’t blame the Palins from saying, “Screw this.” I greatly fear our country has become Balkanized. Look at the county-by-county electoral map and you see the by now familiar pattern: blue on the coasts and around the big cities, red in between. I’m sick to death of the elites who tell me a life in Washington, D.C., is the prerequisite for running for office, or that vetting by The New York Times, NBC and Washington Post is an absolute essential checkpoint on the route to leadership. Or that anybody should have to listen to the MSM house-pet conservative pundits who wouldn’t know a principle if it came up and bit their finger. Oh, sorry, Bush’s dog already took care of that.

  76. #76
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:01 am, jangar said:

    Perhaps McCain’s willingness to play footsies with the enemy (cross the isle till he’s wore the carpet threadbare) is a result of being held prisoner for all those years in Nam, until they “broke” him.

    That’s broke, as in the definition of what one does to a wild horse, or meeked. To be put under control.

  77. #77
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:02 am, FilmLadd said:

    John McCain’s senate seat is up in 2010.

    Are there any conservatives in Arizona willing to run against this miserable collectivist backstabber?

    We’ve got to get moving on this open-borders Kennedy-kissing fifth columnist.

    Weed him out in the primaries!!!! I don’t want friends like this!!!!

  78. #78
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:02 am, jjmurphy said:

    I was a registered Republican until the amnesty fiasco. Then became independent. Sarah Palin is the ONLY reason I voted for the McCain/PALIN ticket. Same for my wife.

  79. #79
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:03 am, Paul-Cincy said:

    I’d like to know who in the McCain campaign slimed Sarah. They betrayed confidences, they lied, and acted out of selfish motives. If I had the ability to discover and publish who did this, then I could say, I will make them famous, and you will know their names.

  80. #80
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:04 am, abstractmind said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 8:53 am, lgm said:

    I could be off when i say this, but…i’ve never seen it anywhere really written and documented for that to be the case. If it is, and someone can show me somethin solid about it, then i’d be willing to conceed the point.

    But, for instance….you’ve taken alot of hits from people here. If we believed everything that’s ever been said about you…what a bad place to be in, no?

    Just saying dont believe everything you read and hear. If you cant verify it, its only hearsay.

  81. #81
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:04 am, FilmLadd said:

    Somebody in Arizona on this board: PLEASE find and vet for us a good conservative to throw against McCain in the primaries.

    Throw him into the dustbin of history!

  82. #82
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:07 am, FamilyMan said:

    LGM
    If your quoting Richard Askey on math you must subscribe to the monstrous moonshine theory.
    A little too much this morning. HMMMMMM?

  83. #83
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:08 am, Paul-Cincy said:

    It’s comical how gullible some are (including supposed journalists such as Chris Matthews) to instantly believe based on anonymous sources, gossip, and third-hand accounts that Sarah thought Africa was a country and didn’t know the 3 countries participating in NAFTA. What’s curious about all this is the word “gullible” isn’t even in the dictionary. You can take that to the bank. Some guy told me that once.

  84. #84
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:09 am, md1964 said:

    Guess it’s a bunch of Professional Political Handlers who need work…and don’t want the blemish of this pathetic campaign to hang over them…so they want an external reason for the loss and pushing all the blame on Gov. Palin.

  85. #85
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:10 am, jangar said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:03 am, Paul-Cincy said:
    I’d like to know who in the McCain campaign slimed Sarah.

    Just some tool that took Scott McClellan’s lead. It’s a trend.

  86. #86
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:11 am, jangar said:

    Sarah got McClelland!

  87. #87
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:16 am, Misscheryl said:

    After reading this, I can’t help but think of an interview I saw yesterday with Spike Lee. He said the right wing wants “Andy of Mayberry,” “Father Knows Best,” and “Leave It To Beaver.” He continued saying it just isn’t like that anymore and the “white” right needs to come to terms with that. This really hit home with me. Made me sad. Thankfully my experiences are not his and though this reality may not live and breath in his life, it does to an extent in my life and in others.

    Saying this, the commentary on those who worked for McCain’s campaign, and the general view of most coming up today embraces the behavior of Spike Lee’s description of life in America. Lack of disrepect, nothing matters unless getting what you want, personal responsibility is a thing of the past. Someone e-mailed me a picture of a typical sophmore college class in Japan, and one in the United States. It reflected well what’s wrong with us..of course, Japan’s students looked disciplined and focused. They wore suites, ties, girls wore dresses and ours wore bras and underwear, while the guys wore shorts and each had a beer and bong.

    I refuse to believe that this is what we are left with in our country. Once, the greatest nation on earth. Cowards, low lifes and bottom feeders. I refuse to believe those who were so viscious to Sarah Palin are the “norm.” What will happen when the ones who embrace ethics, who have learned to respect each other, discipline and moral character are gone. They will be left to their own devices and Lord help the Spike Lee’s of this country.

  88. #88
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:16 am, Marc said:

    Regarding Geraldo Rivera, he was on Fox News last Saturday night bragging (yes bragging) that he and Yasser Arafat were friends. Sean Hannity should have asked him: “Geraldo, did you ever ask your friend Arafat if he (Arafat) would apologize to the widow and children of former US Ambassador to Sudan Cleo Noel who was murdered at the command and behest of your friend Yasser Arafat?”

  89. #89
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:17 am, FamilyMan said:

    LGM
    It is truly amazing to me that your find comfort in the logical linear provable language of mathematics and fail to apply the same logic to politics.
    GGEEESSS!!!!

  90. #90
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:20 am, DaveC said:

    Red State names names.

    Operation Leper.. I like that name.

  91. #91
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:21 am, WrathOfKhan said:

    Wow, Michelle. This is getting really silly. You would be all OVER anonymous reports about Biden-Obama friction if they had lost.

  92. #92
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:22 am, rightwingrocker said:

    John McCain not only failed to make that message stick with the electorate, he apparently couldn’t persuade his own staff to heed his advice and practice what he preached.

    That’s because he really didn’t believe it in the first place.

    http://federalistpartyblog.blogspot.com

    RWR
    http://www.rightwingrocker.com

  93. #93
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:23 am, FilmLadd said:

    Someone please take up the mantle and find a conservative to get rid of McCain in the primaries.

  94. #94
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:23 am, ajmontana said:

    misscheryl, to bad they held spike the coward off until yesterday, sunday would have been good to pop off with that B.S.

  95. #95
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:25 am, pueblo1032 said:

    I was listening to all the PUNDITS yesterday… The only one on FOX, as outraged as I was, MEGYN KELLY… All or most were shouting where is PALIN, when will she come forward to answer these “UN-NAMED” sources??? My question??? WHERE IS JOHN MCCAIN to shut up all these CRAP SLINGERS??? Still my question this morning!!!

  96. #96
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:25 am, jangar said:

    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:16 am, Misscheryl said:

    What Spike is really saying is that color is everything and character is nothing.

  97. #97
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:32 am, tiredofit08 said:

    quick everybody check it out….take some screen shots…check out the America Serves link as well…you will be giving up you time!!!!

    Michelle this needs attention!!!!

    http://www.change.gov/

  98. #98
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:33 am, FamilyMan said:

    LGM
    You like proofs don’t you? Proofs are obtained from deductive reasoning, rather than from inductive or empirical arguments.
    Prove the “undocumented sources”

  99. #99
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:33 am, swmbo said:

    I’ve sent e-mails to RNCC and chairman, I’m on the prowl for a new party. Republican has become as dirty a word as Democrat.

    Sarah Palin can be our Top Pit Bull anytime. With or without lipstick. ;-)

  100. #100
    On November 7th, 2008 at 9:36 am, FamilyMan said:

    LGM you are as cowardly as the “undocumented sources”
    GGGEEESSS!!!

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