Palin: Unintended Consequences

Ooops.

This one isn't easy to write, simply because I've largely been beaten to the punch by *so many* others. From vicious smears in main stream media masquerading as journalism ("Pissed About Palin", Salon, Cintra Wilson), to members of the left implying and in some cases outright claiming that women (or at least conservative women) should be kept barefoot/pregnant/kitchenbound as anything less would be child abuse, and on and on in an ongoing shotgun-style series of attacks (i.e., throw enough crap in the air, some is bound to stick, reality-based or not).

CNN's painfully detailed "coverage" of the Palin "travel scandal" (She never visited Iraq. She never said she visited troops in Iraq. Sooo.....where's the scandal when it's discovered she never visited the troops in Iraq?) related by Newsbusters is a classic example of the heavily spun reporting to which I refer.

A good piece over at the Weekly Standard covers the phenomenon nicely, with delightful humility in its' updates. It also points a link at the best list of Palin rumors I've run across thus far.

Someone else (memory fails me) commented elsewhere that while the "smart lefties have shat a brick, the dumb ones think they're winning" - and that pretty well sums up my analysis as well.

When I start running across lifelong Democrats at the grassroots level blogging away with angry repudiations of the party of their youth based on recent events, I'm guessing something unusual is happening.

When I see steadfast and principaled libertarians such as RobertaX so sickened by the depths to which the left has sunk as to declare for a Palin-McCain ticket, I suspect the political landscape is shifting.

When I see former Hillary supporters banding together to specifically to defeat the Democratic Party nominee, it's a hint of a sea change in progress.

And let us not forget Barack Hussein Obama's* positions on firearms.

*Barack Hussein Obama's full name is used here for a variety of reasons. It seems to get the collective panties of the DNC and their fellow travelers all balled up in a capsicum-marinated knot (a worthwhile goal in and of itself) ; so many have made so much of how it's "not nice and not Politically Correct to use the middle name of Barack Hussein Obama (and PC just annoys the crap out of me, bringing out my mischievous side); and if someone is dumb enough to vote against Barack Hussein Obama because they were exposed to his dread middle name - I'm willing to take it in an electoral situation this foul. As for the other? They desperately need their chain yanked - frequently.