Beating Up Sarah Palin
September 2nd, 2008 at 06:01am Kevin Patrick
Almost lockstep with the Obama campaign’s script, those same
convention cheering surrogates from the MSM are doing their best to make Sarah Palin “famous in a bad way.” Today’s highlighted effort (with assists to both Eugene Robinson and Ruth Marcus with 2 entries in the Washington Post) comes thanks to the New York Times Jodi Kantor and Rachel L. Swarns:
[M]others across the country … have voiced the kind of doubts that few male pundits have dared raise on television. With five children, including an infant with Down syndrome and, as the country learned Monday, a pregnant 17-year-old, Ms. Palin has set off a fierce argument among women about whether there are enough hours in the day for her to take on the vice presidency, and whether she is right to try.
Of course, neither the MSM carrying water for the Obama campaign, nor this false “concerned criticism” were hard to predict.
My earlier post on strategist Mike Murphy told you the Obama campaign is confident on the former:
I talked with top Obama’s strategists who was like we’ve got to be very careful about this because they’re expecting the press to go make Sarah Palin famous in a bad way and they’d be very happy with that.
And Ann Althouse was a day ahead of these weak attacks from Obamabots at the New York Times and Washington Post:
Oh, that looks like a meme. Sarah Palin must stay home with her special needs baby. Sarah Palin must stay home with her about-to-be-married, pregnant daughter. Ladies: Put your career on hold until everything in you’re family stops happening… Would a man forgo his career to be there for a family member who is experiencing an important life transition?
Remember when John Edwards decided to go on with his campaign after his wife got a diagnosis of inoperable cancer? Now, I think Elizabeth Edwards was probably excited about the campaign and wanted to go on with it. In that light, why are you assuming that Bristol Palin isn’t excited about her mother’s campaign? Unlike Elizabeth Edwards, Bristol is not facing her last days. She’s just starting out — all caught up in life. Presumably, she’s intense and positive about her pro-life beliefs, her love for the baby’s father, her impending wedding, and the new baby on the way.
The attacks will continue, while a knowing Obama comfortably takes the high road, fully confident the NetRoots, Kos Kids and cheering MSM Obamabots will relentlessly beat down any strong capable woman that threatens The One. So predictable. And so pathetic.
Entry Filed under: Campaign 2008, Media
20 Comments
1. Timestar | September 2nd, 2008 at 7:11 am
Deleted - off topic.
2. Nursemaid | September 2nd, 2008 at 7:22 am
Deleted - vulgar.
3. extramedium | September 2nd, 2008 at 8:06 am
Nursemaid - you are funny! LOL
Seriously - as long as the Obama campaign stays away from Palin’s personal life issues, they will deny the conservatives the victim sympathy they so desperately seek for Palin. The “press as surrogate” meme is as unknown or irrelevant as it ever was with ordinary people. That crap only resonates with the sort of seething right-wing media junkies who wouldn’t be caught dead voting for Obama anyway.
4. yekepyt | September 2nd, 2008 at 9:04 am
Imagine you are on the board of directors and recruiting a CEO for a company in a very competitive industry. If you are expecting 70 or 80 hours of work out of him/her, and a 24-hour on-call attitude toward the job, the question of his or her other commitments is relevant (and asked all the time).
I felt the same way about John Edwards when he disclosed that his wife was out of remission — would his family commitments affect his performance as President? Ultimately I decided that it would.
It would not fair to the voters to ask them to evaluate any of the candidates without key information such as “what else will be on the candidate’s mind as they execute their responsibilities? Is he/she capable of managing the types of distractions that they bring to the job? Would I prefer someone who has fewer outside-the-job commitments? What does my gut say about this?”
5. Danish Artist | September 2nd, 2008 at 9:57 am
yekeypt,
“what else will be on the candidate’s mind as they execute their responsibilities? Is he/she capable of managing the types of distractions that they bring to the job?”
Did you ask this question of Bill Clinton? Apparently not. In typical leftist’s opinion, Bill could execute his duties while being distracted by intern(s), cigars, aides and other female associates.
The leftist desperation continues. They see their “solid” 8-point lead in the skewed polls dwindling fast, even before the Republican convention and the debates.
6. yekepyt | September 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 am
Yes, I did ask this question of Bill Clinton. Thanks for asking.
Are you living in Denmark? Great country. I am just surprised that you have not yet heard the news: it’s 2008, and John McCain is running against Barack Obama for President of the United States.
7. William of Orange | September 2nd, 2008 at 10:38 am
Danish:
They (the left-wing stooges) are out early this morning. Someone must have fixed the fax machine at DNC headquarters.
I wonder how The Cypher will handle things with Rezko, Ayers, et al on his mind?
8. FactCheck | September 2nd, 2008 at 11:07 am
So you’re upset that the media isn’t fawning over your VP pick? Poor baby.
9. kimberly4victory | September 2nd, 2008 at 1:20 pm
It’s okay if the mother is a Democrat, but not if she’s a Republican:
Before the sun rose over their Florida home, Debbie Wasserman Schultz pulled the thermometer from the mouth of her 8-year-old daughter, Rebecca, and checked the mercury: 103 degrees.
Stay home? Or go to work? It’s a dilemma familiar to millions of working mothers. But her situation is complex: The job is 1,037 miles away, in Washington.
She got on the plane and flew to a New York fundraiser and then on to Washington for her workweek as a Democratic congresswoman. She knew her husband could handle Rebecca’s fever.
Still, the guilt traveled with her. “It feels like someone’s ripping my heart out,” she said. “No matter how good your spouse is, kids want their mom when they’re sick.”
Wasserman Schultz, who also has a son, Rebecca’s twin, and a 3-year-old daughter, is part of a select group, the 10 women in Congress raising children under 13. It’s probably a congressional record, although no one has kept this particular statistic.
They reside on a shaky high wire, balancing motherhood with politicking, lawmaking, fundraising and the constant shuttle between Washington and their home states.
Most of the House members live apart from their children during the week, parenting by phone, e-mail and faxes and relying on husbands, family or nannies to fill the gaps. It’s a lifestyle dictated by election cycle. The four senators live with their families in Washington but wake to the daily frenzy of integrating children into unpredictable workdays that can exceed 16 hours and fray relationships.
And they all live with a reality possibly even more difficult: The public will scrutinize and judge the mothering choices these politicians make. It is this that sets them apart from other professional women and their male counterparts in Congress, and the 10 in the group are keenly sensitive to it.
10. kimberly4victory | September 2nd, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Is it just me or is anyone else infuriated with the Republicans debating Palin’s qualifications on Larry King, etc. They sound ignorant. I sent a couple of them a list of Palin’s qualifications and said, “Please do some studying before you appear again.”
I mean, come on! They knew they were going on national tv to discuss Palin. How could they not study up on her accomplishments and Barry’s non-executive experience.
I could do much better than them.
11. yekepyt | September 2nd, 2008 at 1:27 pm
Re: “I wonder how The Cypher will handle things with Rezko, Ayers, et al on his mind?”
Why would these things be on anyone’s mind if/when Obama takes office? Is there a plan to pepper him with these tired smears even after he’s President?
12. phnx | September 2nd, 2008 at 1:46 pm
Good Morning America had Diane Sawyer on this morning at the begining of the broadcast telling viewers what was coming up on the show:
“…and later today we’ll have blah blah blah, BUT FIRST… (pregnant pause)…THE BOMB SHELL NEWS THAT HAS ROCKED THE POLITICAL WORLD!!!”
I’m thinking, oh sh*t, Israel has bombed Iran, or hostilities have broken out between Russian and US troops in Georgia, or someone’s been assasinated.
she continues…”THE NEWS THAT SARAH PALIN (I’m now thinkgin…did she resign???) ‘S 17 YEAR OLD DAUGTHER IS 5 MONTHS PREGNANT”
OMG!!!! Stop the presses, someones gonna have a baby.
For pete sakes Sawyer overplayed this as if the world was coming to an end.
I say keep it up lefties. You are only distancing yourselves from the rest of the country.
13. FmrMarine | September 2nd, 2008 at 2:23 pm
PHNX
We are witnessing is the “political lynching”
of a candidate by the MSM and the donk party.
First was C. Thomas, now it is Palin.
The rats are desperate, and the knives are coming out.
We will prevail no matter what they throw.
14. kimberly4victory | September 2nd, 2008 at 2:25 pm
Here’s a response from a very liberal clinton supporter:
What in the hell does Sarah Palin’s daughter have to do with being Vice-President?
Newsflash: Teenagers have sex. Teenagers get pregnant. Teenagers who don’t believe in abortion don’t get abortions.
What the hell is the big deal? From where I sit, Palin and her family seem to be handling the situation admirably. There’s no evidence that the daughter is being forced to do anything, but there’s plenty of evidence that her parents are being loving and very supportive.
The nutcases in the Obama camp have gone from spreading gutter rumors about the Palin family uteri to warning darkly that having a pregnant daughter makes Palin “unfit” to be commander-in-chief.
What?
Listen to this crap:
The facts surrounding the Palin family’s pregnancies may not become known, but they do suggest the Alaska governor will at the very least have many distractions while she is campaigning this fall, to say nothing of her fitness to become commander-in-chief.
Somebody needs to help me with the connection here, because I’m not getting it. What, precisely, is the disqualifier for becoming commander-in-chief*?
Is it having children? No, because most presidents have had children.
Is it having teenage children? No, because many presidents have had teenage children.
Is it having a newborn baby? No, because several presidents have had newborn babies.
Is it having a daughter who is pregnant? No, because several presidents have had daughters who were pregnant.
Is it having an unmarried daughter who is pregnant? That must be it, because I think this is a first, at least officially. But still: what the hell does it have to do with being commander-in-chief? If your unmarried daughter has sex and gets pregnant, you’re not qualified to command?
Forgive me for concluding that the real problem here is that Sarah Palin is female, and thus, in the reasoning of both Obama supporters and Pakistani tribesmen, she belongs in the red tent/birthing house/women’s quarters with her daughter. They can do breathing exercises together and discuss amniotic fluid. That’s what women are meant for, by God, not commanding troops!
15. FmrMarine | September 2nd, 2008 at 4:41 pm
K4V
It is funny Cheney, has a LESBIAN daughter….not a word from the kook left,
they cant attack one of their “golden ones” can they?
so they pound a poor 17 yo girl in trouble …sickening!
16. Carolyn | September 2nd, 2008 at 5:02 pm
The first female Vice President. I’m so excited.
I was a grandmother at 40 my son was 17. I have an severly autistic son. I know she can do the job.
Thank you John McCain for selecting Gov. Palin.
17. Pom Pom Girl | September 2nd, 2008 at 5:21 pm
I am only hearing this argument from women who never went to college and who are democrats. Its a small sample of my family and co workers but that is unanimously where this message is coming from. I feel betrayed by my fellow femalse considering this historic moment for Women. I feel angry at these petty small minded women who make us all look bad.
18. Catfish | September 2nd, 2008 at 5:53 pm
Kimberly,
First and foremost, the Obama Campaign has had NOTHING to do with either rumor. Yes Kos pushed them, but the rumors originated from Alaska REPUBLICANS. Both the Trigg and Levi rumors. Yea, so there goes the argument that Obama has anything to do with it. Thats like saying this post here came straight from the McCain campaign. yes, BFV does parrot repub talking points, much like Kos does for the D’s (dont act like you present some impartial view with only facts, cuz its just not true…..not that I dont enjoy the debate, but KOS is essentially this site on the left), but to suggest that an article on BlogsforVictory came from the McCain camp would be absurd, would it not?!?!?
Likewise, Obama has not, save for one early press release which he quickly denounced, said Palin was “unfit” to be VP. She is unfit, and many people have said that, but not Obama, and not his campaign since the 1st day.
Get your facts straight before you attack Obama for attacking Palin. It just hasnt happened.
19. Catfish | September 2nd, 2008 at 5:54 pm
Only women who went to college should have an opinion pompom? thats some hard-core elitism coming out right there. How many houses do YOU own?
20. kimberly4victory | September 2nd, 2008 at 6:52 pm
Catfish: I didn’t write that. Actually I told you who wrote it at the top of the post … a Clinton supporter. A very pissed off one, I might add.
Are you kidding me? KOS is not the left side of this site. It’s members are always extremely distasteful, dishonest, and I would bet most are too young to vote. Their comments are never moderated. There is no conservative voice on the site because conservatives are banned (so much for Freedom of Speech, eh?). The differences between this site and KOS are so vast, it’s quite laughable you would even attempt to make that claim.