Palin's Own Cheerleaders Have Kicked Her in the Teeth On the Way Out
By Liza Sabater, Culture Kitchen Posted on November 10, 2008, Printed on November 26, 2009
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Yet all those negatives were pushed aside by the GOP operatives, Bill Krystol included, who sold Sarah Palin as a viable Vice-President to John McCain. All those hacks squabbled over Mitt Romney, Tim Pawlenty, and McCain's own pick Joe Lieberman. They wouldn't have any of them.
And it worked --at least for a little. McCain's announcement right after the DNC Convention and Obama's speech took all the thunder away from him. The media went ga-ga and so did the 70% of forlorn Republicans who didn't vote for McCain during the primaries he none the less won.
No sooner she proved a liability, the neo-con and GOP hacks that raised her up as their queen wasted no time selling out the woman to, of all places, FOX News.
It's a low of lows that after the GOP and McCain campaign loss they've gone on a rampage of smears against the Governor of Alaska. There are hundreds of reasons why John McCain didn't become president. You don't even have to look into his presidential campaign : Look back to the primaries and you'll find many reasons to why McCain lost.
What's even worse: They've used her knowledge or lack thereof of the continent of Africa. Why not leave it at NAFTA? Why go on FOXNews and say that anonymous sources heard her say African is not a country but a continent?
I've already written about how the finger-prints of Rupert Murdoch could be found in the smear campaigns against Barack Obama. Now that he won, they think they can absolve themselves and show some payback by kicking not the old guy but the woman in the teeth.
Compassionate conservatism at it's best. It's time to take the NRA card out and put it down once and for all.
And for Sarah Palin? I have to say she has shown grace in defeat. Sure, she was smearer #1 in her campaign against Obama, but she didn't call herself a pitbull with lipstick for nothing.
After I saw her interview with Dana Bash, I actually felt sorry for her. Because it's one thing to have your opponents slinging mud back at you. It's another to have your very own cheerleaders kick you in the teeth on their way out the loser's door. And that's exactly what they have done to her.
