Comments on: Palin: The Great Unvetted http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/08/31/palin-the-great-unvetted/ Reclaiming American Democracy Thu, 11 Mar 2010 05:05:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jack Kaplan http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/08/31/palin-the-great-unvetted/comment-page-1/#comment-62143 Jack Kaplan Mon, 01 Sep 2008 04:01:28 +0000 http://www.ruthgroup.org/2008/08/31/palin-the-great-unvetted/#comment-62143 Before you let this story stand alone, its best to take the advice of The Daily Kos: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/201754/741 "And as much as I would like to see the wheels come off the McCain campaign, there is something about the original diary that triggered all of this that just doesn't sit well with me. If you really stop and think about this, it has all the signs of a Karl Rove head fake." .... "REMEMBER THIS: Palin has very little to run on, and the last thing that the GOP wants is to have to have her answer questions about substantive issues. If they can cloud her inexperience in any way, or divert attention from it, they will. (ie. making her look like a victim of smear campaign). If this turns out to be a lie, which it almost certainly is, then the GOP will use this as a wedge issue to drive women voters away from Obama/Biden. They will stand on the rooftops, like the scumbags that they are, and accuse people on the left of running a sexist and mysogynist smear campaign - not just against an accomplished woman, but (gasp?) her helpless children as well. Can't you hear Bill-O right now? Attacking Kos for putting shit out there about how Palin allegedly endangered her baby? How do we even know this? I think what is particularly sinister about this story is the fact that underneath the outrageous claim (that the baby isn't hers), there is actually some "facts" presented that, if true, are equally outrageous (ie. the "fact" that she flew on a plane after her water broke, the "fact" that she deliberately tried to endanger the life of the baby, the "fact" that she went out into some remote location to give birth). These so called facts are laid out in such a way as to make these claims even more believable then the claim that the baby isn't hers - thus drawing in even more Kossacks and other lefty bloggers to spread the story around and join the 'pig pile on the Palin family'. And wait until they parade "poor" Sara or her daughter on television - weeping and protesting. It will completely distract from the fact that Sara Pailin is completely unqualified to be mayor of a large city, never mind the leader of the free world. So I say this: leave this to the National Enquirer." Before you let this story stand alone, its best to take the advice of The Daily Kos:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/8/30/201754/741

“And as much as I would like to see the wheels come off the McCain campaign, there is something about the original diary that triggered all of this that just doesn’t sit well with me. If you really stop and think about this, it has all the signs of a Karl Rove head fake.”

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“REMEMBER THIS: Palin has very little to run on, and the last thing that the GOP wants is to have to have her answer questions about substantive issues. If they can cloud her inexperience in any way, or divert attention from it, they will. (ie. making her look like a victim of smear campaign).

If this turns out to be a lie, which it almost certainly is, then the GOP will use this as a wedge issue to drive women voters away from Obama/Biden. They will stand on the rooftops, like the scumbags that they are, and accuse people on the left of running a sexist and mysogynist smear campaign – not just against an accomplished woman, but (gasp?) her helpless children as well.

Can’t you hear Bill-O right now? Attacking Kos for putting shit out there about how Palin allegedly endangered her baby? How do we even know this?

I think what is particularly sinister about this story is the fact that underneath the outrageous claim (that the baby isn’t hers), there is actually some “facts” presented that, if true, are equally outrageous (ie. the “fact” that she flew on a plane after her water broke, the “fact” that she deliberately tried to endanger the life of the baby, the “fact” that she went out into some remote location to give birth).

These so called facts are laid out in such a way as to make these claims even more believable then the claim that the baby isn’t hers – thus drawing in even more Kossacks and other lefty bloggers to spread the story around and join the ‘pig pile on the Palin family’.

And wait until they parade “poor” Sara or her daughter on television – weeping and protesting. It will completely distract from the fact that Sara Pailin is completely unqualified to be mayor of a large city, never mind the leader of the free world.

So I say this: leave this to the National Enquirer.”

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