Malkin: Palin backstabbers are cowards
Michelle Malkin has a column up at the National Review Online about the recent “leakers,” supposedly insiders of the McCain campaign, who are throwing around as much spiteful gossip about Sarah Palin as they can generate. There’s no better word for people like these so I won’t even try. But I’ve also been listening to the post-election chatter among my fellow Republicans and conservatives about Palin and some of them are approaching shrillness themselves.
Sarah Palin did not doom the GOP ticket this election year. She suffered attacks that were just uncalled for. Malkin says it nicely in her article:
Hollywood savaged Palin. Journalists mocked her. Liberal blogs slimed her. Opponents cursed her, Photoshopped her, hacked her e-mail, hanged her in effigy, called her bigot, Bible-thumper and bimbo, and attacked her husband and children. But nothing Palin endured during the election season compares to the treatment she’s receiving from these backstabbing blabbermouths who worked on the same campaign she poured herself into over the last three months.
Sarah Palin worked her heart out. She energized tens of thousands to come out when they 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 an infectious optimism that defied the shameless, bottomless attempts by elites in both parties to bring her and her family down.
Sarah Palin was the kind of politician we Republicans need more of, not less. Bright, energetic, and connected with the everyday American in a way very few of our recent candidates have been. This constant drone of Palin-bashing, most particularly when it descends into the personal invective I’ve seen around various allegedly conservative blogs these past few days, is hurting the party and any chances of attracting the kind of fresh faces the GOP is going to need in the coming years.
Comments
Comment from Frank Hardisty
Time November 14, 2008 at 21:49
I am interested in your defense of, and liking for, Sarah Palin. Why? Because I feel completely the opposite, and I would like to rationally explore why here if you are game.
Most of what I saw from her were platitudes for her side, attacks on Obama and anyone who disagreed. One of the high points of her campaign were her speech at the RNC, yes? I was just re-reading her RNC speech, and I was struck with how that’s basically all it was.
Then there were her comments about “real America” etc. I got the feeling I am exactly the kind of person she is against. I love to travel the world, I have a wife born in another country. I try to keep an open, yet critical, attitude towards what I read and hear. What I hear from Palin is “your kind not welcome”. Maybe I’m wrong.
I guess she reminds me of Bush too much in her mix of confidence and willful ignorance.
I am fiscally conservative but socially liberal. So, I feel like I don’t really have a political party right now. But, the Republicans, and Palin in particular, seem to be moving further away from what I would like to see…
regards,
-Frank
Comment from Son of Bill Brasky
Time November 10, 2008 at 16:38
Let’s be honest.. Palin did her fair share of attacking in this race (“Pallin’ around with terrorists”). She’s the governor of a STATE and accepted the VP nomination…she should have known the whirlwind she was getting into.
She was absolutely unknown when she was named VP choice. The scrutiny she received from the media was partially the campaigns fault because they sheltered her from the media. If you don’t grant interviews people start to wonder why.
Unfortunately for Palin, she hasn’t provided anything of substance that would make me believe the allegations against her are incorrect. She has shown to be less than educated on a variety of subjects (geography included). She can deny these allegations but it’s not helping her cause.
If Michelle Malkin wants to defend her and hang her hat on Palin as the 2012 GOP nominee.. go for it. see ya in 2016