So they lied all along when they said they wanted to help and empower all women.

There is a growing feeling by many on the Right that the violent, mean and spiteful reaction to Sarah Palin by the left, especially by the female Left, will swing the uncommitted to voting for the McCain Palin ticket. If my reaction is anything like others on the Right, I hope they are right and I am energized to actively support the Republican ticket with my contributions and my work.

But I’m not an independent and I realize that the sick and misogynistic comments being made about Palin are not being broadcast by the MSM because to do so would be to help Palin get sympathy and that’s the last thing the MSM wants. So we are left with the Internet and Talk Radio, and we’ll find out in November if the old guard “gatekeepers” in the MSM were able to keep this out of sight.

No matter what happens, I believe that Sarah Palin is tough enough that she will end up either as an important and active Vice President or the next nominee of the Republican Party for President.


Noemie Emery writes "The Palin Effect" in the Weekly Standard

(Her enemies are bellowing like a wounded moose)

McCain picked Palin for a number of reasons--youth, pizzazz, energy, appeal to the base and to middle-class women, to the West and to blue-collar voters--but it may turn out that the main contribution she makes to his effort is in goading the Democrats into spasms of self-defeating and entirely lunatic rage. Somehow, every element of her life--the dual offense of being a beauty-queen and hunter; the Down syndrome baby who wasn't aborted; the teenage daughter about to get married, whose baby also wasn't aborted; the non-metrosexual husband working the nightshift; the very fact of five children--touched a nerve on the liberal template, and sent the whole beast into convulsions, opening an intriguing and somewhat frightening window onto the turbulent id of the left.

On September 2, the New York Times ran six stories that touched on the teenage daughter's pregnancy, three of them above the fold on page one, each of them making Palin's family life look like Tobacco Road meets Jerry Springer. Carol Fowler, chairman of the Democratic party in South Carolina, said that Palin's main qualification "seems to be that she hasn't had an abortion," which, in some circles is nothing to brag about. (Fowler's husband Don, former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, had just faded from the headlines after suggesting that the disruption of the Republican convention by Hurricane Gustav reflected the judgment of God.)

The editor in chief of the New Republic said Palin was "pretty like a cosmetics saleswoman at Macy's," and called her and her ilk "swilly people." Leftist "comediennes" made up rape scenarios. A hacker broke into Palin's private email account, spreading family photos and emails far and wide. Gawker, a website beloved of the New York-based media, gleefully dialed up one daughter's voice mail, published the photos, and a long list of email addresses of Palin's friends and family. Rumors surfaced that four-month old Trig was really the son of her now-pregnant daughter. Vanity Fair and New York magazine offered "The Authentic Trig Palin Conspiracy Time Line," with alternative theories of the infant's conception and parentage. Talk of bodily fluids sloshed through the blogosphere, as "Who had her baby, and when did she have it?" became the rallying cry of the left. A blogger for the Atlantic demanded medical records: "The circumstantial evidence for weirdness around this pregnancy is so great that legitimate questions arise."

But the main questions that arose concerned these over-the-top accusations, and the mental state of those making them.