News media bias toward Palin wakes up the snoozing GOP

Those who say there's no media bias aren't saying anything right now. They're laying low.

First, my own minor mea culpa: A week ago, I wrote that Barack Obama had enjoyed little or no bump in the polls from the first nights of the Democratic National Convention. Then came a bump after all, thanks mainly to his high-flying acceptance speech and ringing endorsements from Bill and Hillary Clinton.

Obama and David Axelrod, his chief strategist, are privately furious over the endless attacks, snide comments and second-guessing about John McCain's choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate, and about her unwed daughter's pregnancy.

Obama's team is smart enough to know this open faucet flow of condemnation and vitriol has sprouted sympathy - and additional name ID - for Palin among a significant bloc of undecided voters.

The furor also has whacked the sleeping hornet's nest known as the Republican Party voting base, which until now had been moodily snoozing inside the hive.

Many of them recall Dan Quayle, who was mercilessly and unfairly pilloried by the same kind of media barkers when he was George H.W. Bush's running mate in 1988. Bush and Quayle won anyway.

But there's a difference in Quayle's and Palin's situations, and it's a big one: Bush's handlers took the baton of condescension from media and Democrats and used it to effectively spank their own VP candidate as if he were a naughty kid.

But McCain has circled the GOP wagon that holds the women and children - Palin and her daughter.

Axelrod got away with opening sealed divorce records on Hull and Ryan during the US Senate race in 2004.

I remember freepers condemning Ryan’s sex scandal and he had to withdraw from the race in disgrace.

Axelrod thought a third time would be a charm taking out Palin.

McCain knew the game plan?
Took counter-measures?

If anybody ever makes comments about her being a bolt out of the blue or not "vetted" by McCain - I've got a link below for them to look at. She has been considered a "rising star" for some time now by political junkies in the NewMedia.

Ya gotta love how everyone was saying “she wasn't vetted” when he met with her early this year and the NewMedia has had Palin high in their sights almost forever now. But the FRAUDcasters of the Dinosaur Media only saw DC VPs. LOL.

Saying that McCain picked Palin out of the blue is premised on her being completely unknown to him - but that is just foolish. I keep linking MadIvan’s VP analysis because he called for Palin back in February just to show as many people as possible just how stupid the OldMedia has become:

Governor Sarah Palin for Vice President - MadIvan - Feb'08

MadIvan’s analysis of Palin for VP in Feb was not the first time I had seen her suggested- but I’m a real political junkie.

I’m SURE that McCain knew of her WELL before I had - she really has shaken up some of his Senate colleagues during her rise up in Alaska - she had to have had attention of “maverick”. And there were several very bright articles written over during the six months after her win in Alaska about the GOP’s new “rising star”

I think it is so funny that she was in MY top three as VP choices, but the Dinosaur Media, and apparently snObama's campaign, was caught with their pants down.

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