This *Is* "Change"
and I can hardly freakin’ believe it...
So Palin quit. What I heard her say was that not only was it taking too high a toll on her family but it was taking too much of AK taxpayer time & $$ to fight it. And she didn’t believe that was fair nor morally responsible in her position as Governor to continue.
I admire that. What shakes me to my strappy little sandals is who won in this dealio and how they did it. The DNC operatives, with full cooperation of the MSM and nutroots, just stood there and threw bushels of bullshiite at her until she had to go away.
And what would prevent them from doing that to any other candidate—for any other office, national to local?
Completely intentional; completely dishonest; and completely impossible to defend against. Not one—not ONE—“journalist” made any effort to dig into the who/where/what of the “ethics complaint” filers—that we know of. Not one piece outlining their identity, their baselessness, their pattern, their intent. Not one youngun, looking for their Big Break story thought to “investigate” how such “corruption” could have gone on unnoticed for the first half of Palin’s governorship and only have come to light after she hit the national scene? No one was curious how so much bullshite could have been flung—yet none of it stuck? None? Isn’t that kinda unusual? Yet no one thought to investigate a big story like that?
Not ONE? Rly?
Why? Did someone/anyone start on such a piece and get warned off? Were the same tactics threatened against them? Or other, more immediate tactics?
This game-changing tactic, against which we must find a workable, adequate defense, will change the political areana. But, tell ya the truth, I cannot think of how to fight it.
[That’s not to say politics has not heretofore been dirty—duh. But a planned barrage of baseless bullshite, each piece of which is winnable on its own merits, but the whole of which, by sheer volume, is not? Stinks of Cloward-Piven, no?
Palin is toast, insofar as any higher elected office; but anyone else who emerges from the ranks will be open to the same kind of thuggery. And I imagine, now that it’s worked on the national scale, we will see it on state and local scales. It’s in the playbook. It worked. It will be used.
All we can do, now, is name it in her honor: being “Palined.”
And, somehow, raise a defense. Although reason, fact and honor has a tough time in the face of the volume of a maddened hoard of barbarians.
Tacticists?
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