A British Laborite newspaper, but you are correct. It is much more reasonable than most of the biased coverage we get in American.
Many experts believe centrist women voters, attracted by her strides for women, will be equally put off by her extremist politics.
However, not totally without bias. Why is Palin an extremist, and socialist Obama is simply a reasonable man? That makes no sense at all. Why is tradition considered extremist, and an impossible Utopian dream considered reasonable? At any rate they tipped their hand. The left is going to try and paint Palin as an extremist. It's coming, so get ready for a good fight.
The spearhead of Obama's pushback against Palin is going to be Clinton. Obama's former rival is being dispatched to the key battleground state of Florida tomorrow to make her first campaign stop post-Denver. She is set to deliver a stinging rebuke to some of the points Palin has been making. At the same time a rapid response team of senior women Democrats is going to be deployed elsewhere, also taking up the mantle of pushing home the message that Palin and McCain are simply an extension of the Bush years. The women involved include Arizona governor Janet Napolitano and Kansas governor Kathleen Sibelius.
So, that is the strategy. The Democrat woman are going to do the dirty work. They are going to demonize Republican policy as extremist. Will they attack Palin personally? They will let their cohorts in the media do that for them.
It's just how progressives see the world. To them, America's founding belief in liberty and limited government was "extreme." As Bill Clinton put it during his presidency:
“When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans, it was assumed that the Americans who had that freedom would use it responsibly… that they would work for the common good, as well as for the individual welfare… However, now there’s a lot of irresponsibility. And so a lot of people say there’s too much freedom. When personal freedom’s being abused, you have to move to limit it.” – Bill Clinton, April 19, 1995
`If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government’s ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, August 12, 1993
``The purpose of government is to reign in the rights of the people’’ –- Bill Clinton during an interview on MTV in 1993
``We can’t be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans…that we forget about reality.’’ -- President Bill Clinton, quoted in USA Today, March 11, 1993, Page 2A, ``NRA change: `Omnipotent to powerful’’’ by Debbie Howlett