You don’t bring a knife to a gunfight, pal. The left has been engaging in one giant smear campaign against Palin, and they have asked for it.
A lofty campaign debating the issues is the ideal, but if you let the other side win by going down with the ship that was torpedoed by smears, all you have done is drowned.
We should debate the issues, because I think conservatives are right on the issues. We shouldn’t engage in the same sort of smears that the left does.
This gaffe is not part of Obama’s private life, his family and it isn’t a baldfaced lie.
We’ll get the leadership we deserve if we are bullied into accepting the attacks of our enemies without hitting back...not on the level of our foe, with lies and the trashing of the innocent. If Obama publicly hands us a cudgel like this and we disdain to use it, then we deserve to lose.
Many on this site have trashed McCain for years and now that he has selected Palin all is right with the world...ho hum. Many on this site have been attacking Obama for months, and all other opponents as well. Believe what you believe, fight for that, but don’t assassinate someone’s character and then complain when someone attacks your’s. Live by the sword and die by the sword. It cuts both ways.