[Aria]

The left is relentless and merciless. There are some good comments after the article including:

And the public wonders why conservatives tend to stay away from politics. It's an ugly game played by nasty people who know no rules or boundaries.

I'm reminded of the opening lines from The Chronicles of Riddick. To paraphrase...

Usually, evil is confronted by good. Sometimes, evil must be met by a different kind of evil.

[NordP]

And...

Evil prospers when good men do nothing.

Doing the right thing isn't always easy, but it's ALWAYS right!

[Glenn]

Remind me. How many colleges did she “quit”?

[wolfpat]

I’m wondering Palin’s action is a case of retreat and regroup, or of taking the football and going home.

We’ll see.

[Safrguns]

And sometimes in a fight, it is necessary to parry.

Palin Parried.

Can’t wait for the thrust.

[CyberAnt]

Excuse me .. Sarah WON against all the charges.

I don’t see as how the left won anything .. in fact, this harassment by the left has only propelled her into the spotlight and exposed the left for their mean spirtedness.

[I see my hands]

Convert, submit, or die, per se, is not an evil demand. It is a righteous demand when insisted on by free men.

Got to get back to the farm.

[Eleutheria5]

I’m so happy to be away from their clutches. These people are going to destroy all that was good in America.

[Popman]

Excellent article and spot on analysis.

As normal the hard left has bite off more than they can chew. Once Palin is free of being attacked with baseless charges, who knows what she can do

[DannyTN]

How can you reign in frivolous charges like this and punish those who file them, without having a silencing effect on those who would file valid ethics complaints?

The state of Alaska should pay the defense costs for all ethics cases that are dismissed without merit. It's not right that the Governor has a $500,000 legal bill just for trying to serve as governor.

There should be some recourse against those who file false charges maliciously.

[HowlinglyMind-BendingAbsurdity]

"In a nutshell it seeks to "hasten the fall of capitalism by overloading the government bureaucracy with a flood of impossible demands, thus pushing society into crisis and economic collapse."

There are a lot of teachers who use this method as well. Overloading with impossible demands.

[WilliamofCarmichael]

In the case of Sarah Palin, political opponents overloaded her with a flood of complaints and consequent legal fees, thus pushing her toward a personal financial crisis and her exit from the public arena. Like NYC she may come back, but the rules of the game have changed.

It was used everywhere. 1960's radio station owners were overloaded with a flood of complaints to the FCC that they were not being fa-a-a-a-a-a-air. Goodbye license.. or (shudder. Ugh!) more Top 40 stations.

"You might also think that they would recall the notorious Fairness Doctrine, which was used to 'harass and intimidate' right-wing radio broadcasts, in the words of one unabashed Kennedy-Johnson operative. When that censorious policy was ended in 1987 by former broadcaster Ronald Reagan, there was an explosion of talk formats that gave voice to popular concerns (for a while, Rush Limbaugh even billed himself as equal time)."

The newly emerging art of confrontation was sometimes called mau-mauing.

I believe Tom Wolfe's book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers illustrates those days.

Mau-mauing is still with us, of course. It's about all the Left has.

[Jeff Head]

[neverdem]

Usually, evil is confronted by good. Sometimes, evil must be met by a different kind of evil.

Sometimes, the death penalty is justified.

[LucyT]

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[arasina]

Just bumping this up a bit. Good thread.

[fortunecookie]

And the public wonders why conservatives tend to stay away from politics. It's an ugly game played by nasty people who know no rules or boundaries. I'm reminded of the opening lines from The Chronicles of Riddick. To paraphrase... Usually, evil is confronted by good. Sometimes, evil must be met by a different kind of evil.

You know, it isn't often one sees The Chronicles of Riddick quoted, but you're spot on, this fits.