Palin's Task

It is not an easy assignment to carry water for John McCain. This is because he doesn't have a core set of principles. This means that poor Sarah Palin has to be educated in McCain's many often conflicting and irrational positions before she can speak to anyone in public. To be an advocate for John McCain is virtually an impossible task to perform satisfactorily. Sarah's appeal is in her assurance and confidence in her principles, which are conservative principles. This sets her apart from McCain. Therefore, when evaluating her interview performances, which are of course conducted by hostile, condescending liberals like Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric (I love how the diminutive forms of these names are forced upon us, as if these are "cute" people whom we all love), we need to cut her a little slack. She needs our support the way Dan Quayle did in 1988. The hostile, left-wing media are endeavoring to define Sarah Palin. Don't let them get away with it.

If Sarah is merely a trained parrot for our unstable "maverick" leader tonight, the entire Sarah Palin phenomenon will have been wasted, certainly for 2008 and possibly even for 2012. If she continues to whine about the poor people who were victimized by "predator lenders," then we might as well prepare for our years of resistance in the wilderness. She needs to display the strengths and sparkling qualities that first endeared us to her.

Having partisan leftist Gwen Ifill as the moderator of this debate is a farce and a setup. Ifill has written a glowing book about Obama, scheduled to come out on inauguration day. Has anyone with enough intelligence to brush his teeth considered that if Obama loses, the whole premise of Ifill's book, the rise to the top of black politicians, loses its significance, leaving the book a lot less marketable? That the whole premise (and, the "bet") of the book is that Obama breaks through and makes it to the top? That if Obama loses, this allegedly unbiased, professional journalist makes a lot less money than if Obama wins? In the legal world, we call that a conflict of interest. Of all the liberal journalists who could moderate this debate, do we have to have the one who has written an approving book about Obama, to be released on inauguration day? I blame McCain for this. Will his crazed zeal for the nonexistent "bipartisanship" drive his--and Palin's--candidacy into a ditch? Brian