One of the things that drove the Dubya supporters, such as myself, nuts was the ways he barely defended himself and his policies. Obviously, one doesn’t want to spend much time when the attacks are personal, giving them credence, or, as the old saying goes “never argue with an idiot. They’ll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.” But, in politics, one has to engage to some degree. And, it looks like Sarah Palin has decided that she will smack the vicious McCain aids in the face with a salmon

Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska fired back Friday at the unnamed McCain campaign aides who have been maligning her in recent days, saying that their criticism was “cruel and it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, it’s unprofessional, and those guys are jerks.”

“So, no, I think that if there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about Nafta, and about the continent versus the country when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context,” Ms. Palin said. “And that’s cruel and it’s mean-spirited, it’s immature, it’s unprofessional, and those guys are jerks, if they came away with it taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news. It is not fair and not right.”

The only person who can truly stop this is John McCain, and, while he has made some public calls for the aids to cut it out, they don’t seem to be listening. Of course, we do not know what is occurring behind the scenes. And, McCain made some inroads with the conservative base. He could certainly continue that stature by coming to Palin’s side, rather then acting as Big Daddy during a siblings dispute.

Anyhow, it is nice to see a Republican fighting back, and, if the McCain aids want to continue their anonymous smears, they will have a tough road, because she will not take it, and the conservative base will not take it.

Palin Derangement Syndrome strikes England

Townsfolk in England have delivered their explosive verdict on Sarah Palin, stuffing a giant effigy of the U.S. Republican vice presidential nominee with fireworks and blowing her up to raucous cheers.

The unusual display was the climax of an annual bonfire celebration Saturday in the southern town of Battle, where political figures are a favorite target of a local tradition that sees a different icon destroyed each year.

This year’s creation was a rather unflattering depiction of the self-declared “hockey mom,” a machine gun brandished in her muscular arms, bright red lipstick surrounding a grimacing smile and a moose at her side.

Imagine if that had been Barack H. Obama (yes, including the H is racist, in Liberal World). Imagine the outrage, the calls of racism, hatred, intolerance, etc. Liberals/progressives/surrender monkeys would be calling for a criminal hate crime investigation.

The Surrender Monkey is really ready to get his groove on today. Surrendie loves all things surrender, but, he particularly enjoys when a supposedly conservative pundit goes catty moonbat, especially at a conservative website

My husband called it first. Then, a brilliant, 75-year-old scholar and raconteur confessed to me over wine: “I’m sexually attracted to her. I don’t care that she knows nothing.”

Finally, writer Robert Draper closed the file on the Sarah Palin mystery with a devastating article in this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine: “The Making (and Remaking) of McCain.”

McCain didn’t know her. He didn’t vet her. His campaign team had barely an impression. In a bar one night, Draper asked one of McCain’s senior advisers: “Leaving aside her actual experience, do you know how informed Governor Palin is about the issues of the day?”

The adviser thought a moment and replied: “No, I don’t know.”

Thanks, Kathy. I could swear I was reading something on the Huffington Post, Daily Kos, or Think Progress. Of course, she is certainly entitled to her opinion, but, like several other of the “elite” conservatives, she seems to have a bit of Palin Derangement Syndrome going on, and seems to expect some sort of Messiah like Conservative to spring forth and save the Party, rather then backing our own candidates.

Now, yes, there are some things about Palin and McCain’s policies I do not care for, such as their illegal immigration stances. But, those are policy disagreements. Conservative “elites” are more interestedin making it personal. Jack M at Ace of Spades HQ paraphrase the gist of the article as “John McCain picked Sarah Palin with his dick,” and he is correct.

Does she have to agree with other conservatives? No. But, it would be a nice if she could stop tearing down the conservative movement and becoming the latest Excitable Andy clone. Particularly considering her columns have been blasted by the readers and given poor marks since Sept. 19. She seems to delight more in attacks on Palin and McCain, rather then the guy who would like to silence her, raise her taxes, surrender to Islamic extremists, etc, and so on. You know the deal.

Hmmm, so the liberal meme about someone yelling “kill him” at a Palin rally? Apparently, a complete load: Secret Service says “Kill him” allegation unfounded

The agent in charge of the Secret Service field office in Scranton said allegations that someone yelled “kill him” when presidential hopeful Barack Obama’s name was mentioned during Tuesday’s Sarah Palin rally are unfounded.

The Scranton Times-Tribune first reported the alleged incident on its Web site Tuesday and then again in its print edition Wednesday. The first story, written by reporter David Singleton, appeared with allegations that while congressional candidate Chris Hackett was addressing the crowd and mentioned Oabama’s name a man in the audience shouted “kill him.”

Slavoski said more than 20 non-security agents were interviewed Wednesday, from news media to ordinary citizens in attendance at the rally for the Republican vice presidential candidate held at the Riverfront Sports Complex. He said Singleton was the only one to say he heard someone yell “kill him.”

“We have yet to find someone to back up the story,” Slavoski said. “We had people all over and we have yet to find anyone who said they heard it.”

So, the only person who can co-oberate the reporters story is…..the reporter.

Remember the days when reporters sourced their stories?

From Patterico: Now, the mythology of the lying left would have it, they didn’t just scream “Kill him!” referring to Obama (which itself never happened) — they even screamed “Kill Obama!”

Others: Michelle Malkin, Little Green Footballs, Newsbusters,

And is nice enough to position the people in Flyover state West Virginia as complete racists. Perhaps they should turn to the senior Senator from West Virginia for his opinion (NY Times)

Senator Barack Obama lost the Ohio Democratic primary by 10 percentage points and the West Virginia primary by a whopping 40 points last spring — a sign, to some Democrats and political analysts, that many whites in the Rust Belt would not vote for a black man for president.

I’m still waiting for the article that states that the 90% of Blacks who are going to vote for Obama are racist, because they won’t consider voting for a White man. But, this is the Democrat playbook when a minority or woman is running, bring up racism or sexism. Democrats will do anything to cover up and avoid a conversation on the real agenda and political background of their candidates. They’ve painted Obama as some sort of centrist, and people are buying the kool aid. If you try and bring his real background and agenda up, you are a racist, as has been documented time and time again.

Yet here was Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee, on Sunday, taking a bus tour along the Ohio-West Virginia border — a white, economically depressed region where the Republican ticket, it turns out, is now struggling to prevail. And on a weekend when racial issues flared once more in the presidential campaign, race was also on the minds of many voters here, who said they were wary of a black president even if he might be better for them economically.

“What you hear around here is, would you rather have a black friend in the White House, or a white enemy?” said John Schuster, a Republican from Wheeling, W.Va., who joined several thousand people here for a twilight rally led by Ms. Palin.

Do you like how they linked SarahCuda in with supposed racism, and a quote?

Anyhow, the story continues on and on and on, racism racism racism, those evil Republicans, blah blah blah. Can’t criticise That One, you know.

It’s just so terrible!

As the crowd cheered at a Sarah Palin rally this morning in Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a man in the audience grinned as he held up a stuffed monkey doll with a Barack Obama bumper sticker wrapped across its forehead.

The incident came at a time when McCain and Palin’s events have increasingly been fueled by angry crowds, since Palin began drawing a connection between Barack Obama and 1960s radical William Ayers, claiming that the Democratic nominee has a history of “palling around” with a terrorist.

Yawn. Nothing from CBS about the assassination chic of the Left.

Or how they call President Bush a terrorist. You would think that one of them might notice this 24/7 since Reagan became president display outside the White House

I guess it is OK to call Bush a monkey, though

CBS and the other lefty media, and lefties, pitch hissy fits (shocka!) about a few folks. Meanwhile, I look over and see Michelle M. has re-documented the massive hypocrisy and unhingedness of the Left.

Hockey Mom does hockey things

And for those of you who can’t get enough of Sarah Palin, her next faceoff will come at center ice at an NHL arena, not at a debate. The GOP vice presidential nominee will drop the ceremonial first puck when the Philadelphia Flyers open the regular season against the New York Rangers on Saturday.

When asked how many hockey games she has seen, Palin said “All of ‘em. Any of ‘em that have been in front of me all these years.” Then she winked and disappeared.

I’ll love her more if she despises both those teams. (psst, I’m a Devils fan)

What sports does Obama like? Other then dressing like a dork then going for a ride on a bike? Can you imagine him throwing out the first pitch? The phrase “short hop” may be too generous. Notice how he has been pretty much kept away from most sporting events? I’ll give John Kerry this: he may have goofed up a few times, such as the famous Lambert Field, but, the guy did know and like sports. People made fun of him for windsurfing, but, good for him, going out there and doing it. Obama is the kid who couldn’t hit the ball off the tee, and it affected him all his life.

But, say, is this sexist?

As Ace points out, it would be easy to dismiss this upskirt shot with a kid looking on like he is at The Doll House, but, there are many more in the same series. Ace has a bunch from al-Reuters.

Oh, and hey, the upcoming Newsweek cover is the subject of intense debate at the LA Times. Entertainment writer Elizabeth Snead wonders if it is OK if Newsweek used a stock photo from 2002 on the cover of Palin holding a gun. Then she wonders

Hey, is that even the right way to hold a rifle? Can’t you shoot your foot off like that?

As Newsbusters points out

What we have here is another denizen of Hollywood that knows zip about firearms. Palin is not holding a rifle. And even if it were a breachloading rifle, with the breach cracked open, draped over a shoulder, one cannot shoot one’s foot off regardless. A breach must be closed before any foot shooting can be in the offing.

$100 says it would be possible if a liberal was holding it. Especially Biden. Obama would run to the shower if he so much as touched it, like a sissy boy who touched a bug.

While I am still at the LA Times, via the National Review: Lisa Guerrero: Time to end this monkey business?

On Friday night, the Angels’ Rally Monkey let down the home crowd in Anaheim. Although the team triumphed Sunday night in Boston, you can’t credit the monkey unless he sneaked into Jared Weaver’s suitcase.

On Saturday, John McCain’s rally monkey, Sarah Palin, popped up in Carson. Fresh off of her victory over herself at the debate, her campaign let Palin out of the cage to rev up the fan base.

Only problem was that, according to an Associated Press analysis, the lady maverick made some “racially tinged” remarks about Barack Obama. Someone might want to inform Sarah that although comments like that may play well in Wasilla, here in Southern California we celebrate diversity along with divisional championships.

Now back to the other primate.

Um, OK, this is the sports page of the LA Times. I do read it a bunch, since I am a Dodgers fan. Long suffering Dodgers fan. She was writing about getting rid of the Angels’ rally monkey, cause she doesn’t like it. Fans sure seem to, though. Yet, through PDS, she felt she had to insert that idiocy into her story. Celebrate diversity, call Palin a monkey. I might agreed with her if she had left it alone after the second paragraph of the excerpt, because there is no doubt that Palin does the same thing. But, the last 2 showed Guerro’s biases and stupidity.

Photoshop: David Lunde

Seriously, these people on the Left should have continued their therapy sessions after the 2004 election. Of course, they probably seeked out psychiatrists that were Liberals, too. Case in point

What a bizarre (and tawdry) series-of-tubes headache for the McCain campaign.

How could it be that a Web site titled “VoteForTheMilf” redirects users to Republican nominee John McCain’s official campaign Website? True stuff. Or at least it was until someone mysteriously un-directed the redirection.

As of just moments ago, anyone who typed “www.voteforthemilf.com” into his or her Web browser and hit enter was immediately redirected to McCain’s site, www.johnmccain.com, where vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin greeted first-time users via video. (The .net and .org versions of voteforthemilf also redirected users to the mccain campaign site.)

The curious linkage was first discovered by GovGap. As you can see at Network Solutions, the “voteforthemilf” domain was created on Aug. 29, the same day that McCain announced Palin as his running mate.

Would it surprise you that the above comes from a Washington Post blog? Or that “The Sleuth gives a tip of the ‘ole hat to our colleague on Style, intrepid lampooner Libby Copeland, who happened upon an item on the dreaded URL snafu on the Washington City Paper’s blog.” It shouldn’t, considering the derangement syndrome for anything that they do not like they express.

It shouldn’t surprise you that the Washington City Paper go their info from a very hard left site, with the Washington Post following next. All three are making allegations they cannot back up with, you know, facts. I found it via Memeorandum from Crooks and Liars. The Post makes insinuations and accusations, all designed to make you think this is some sort of nefarious plot!

But, if we look it up at Network Solutions, we see: Web Site Title: VoteForTheMILF.com/.net/.org was a simple prank. | n00tz.net. Could it be BS? Sure. The info for my address is wrong, too.

BTW, I own mybarackobama.us. I’ve owned it for a few months, haven’t done a thing with it. I just set it up to redirect to thepiratescove.us, should take affect shortly.

The death of sanity and journalistic ethics occured in 2008.

You remember Peggy Noonan, right? She of the open mike idiocy about that Palin pick being “bullshit” gaffe. Then she tried to spin it around, but, she has been less then a supporter. That is her right, but, now, she is a bandwagon jumper

She killed. She had him at “Nice to meet you. Hey, can I call you Joe?” She was the star. He was the second male lead, the good-natured best friend of the leading man. She was not petrified but peppy.

The whole debate was about Sarah Palin. She is not a person of thought but of action. Interviews are about thinking, about reflecting, marshaling data and integrating it into an answer. Debates are more active, more propelled—they are thrust and parry. They are for campaigners. She is a campaigner. Her syntax did not hold, but her magnetism did. At one point she literally winked at the nation.

As far as Mrs. Palin was concerned, Gwen Ifill was not there, and Joe Biden was not there. Sarah and the camera were there. This was classic “talk over the heads of the media straight to the people,” and it is a long time since I’ve seen it done so well, though so transparently. There were moments when she seemed to be doing an infomercial pitch for charm in politics. But it was an effective infomercial.

There is more gushing from Peggy. How does that crow taste, Peggy?

And David Brooks? You remember the Keith Olbermann network gleefully writing “Palin: When you’ve lost David Brooks…” Now we get

Still, this debate was about Sarah Palin. She held up her end of an energetic debate that gave voters a direct look at two competing philosophies. She established debating parity with Joe Biden. And in a country that is furious with Washington, she presented herself as a radical alternative.

By the end of the debate, most Republicans were not crouching behind the couch, but standing on it. The race has not been transformed, but few could have expected as vibrant and tactically clever a performance as the one Sarah Palin turned in Thursday night.

Ummmm, crow. Tastes good! Feels good! Real good! (to the tune sung during marching in Full Metal Jacket by R. Lee Ermey)

Next on the crow list will probably be Kathleen Parker. We’ll give her a few days to clean her Thanksgiving Day silverware.