Who is out there that the RATs wouldn't do the same exact thing to, and how would you combat it?
If there isn't real political baggage, the RATs just make it up.
There isn’t a true conservative that the Left wouldn’t go all out to demonize and destroy. I agree completely on that.
The extent to which it can be fought and resisted is largely dependent on the candidate. I’m not old enough to remember, but I’ve read and I’ve been told that the Left did their best to demonize Reagan, but once the American people got a true, unfiltered look at him then the Left’s attacks on him were revealed as baseless.
I wonder if Palin is capable of the same. And I wonder if the relentless attacks on her have put her in too big a hole with too large a segment of the electorate. I know a lot of people get very defensive of Palin, and I’ll admit that I’m not a big fan, at least not of her running for President. But I would vote for her against any conceivable Democrat candidate. I have my doubts that others would though, at least enough of them.