“This will come back to bite them thouhg like every other worthless attack has.”
That’s unlikely. In the long run, people will stop feeling sorry for Palin, and start treating her like any politician. “If she wants to stand in the spotlight, this is how it’s gonna be.”
Consciously or not, the media has a “throw everything against the wall and see what sticks” strategy. They’ll print all the suspicion and innuendo they can get their hands on, and eventually the public will assume that where there’s smoke, there’s fire.
Take Bush. In the beginning, people knew he was no genius, but they liked him. In the end, people don’t necessarily hate him, but they think he’s at worst corrupt and at best completely incompetent. Why? The media won through attrition. Negative story after negative story sunk Bush.
No one seemed to care about the eleventh-hour cocaine story. The national guard hub-bub barely made a dent. I remember back in 2001 when stories criticizing Bush for reading children’s stories while the towers burned or Cheney’s shadow government made me laugh.
Then there was Iraq, and unlike the rest of what I’ve recapped, that was a real story. After the fall of Saddam and prior to the Surge, the media had a free-for-all. Troubles in Iraq lent credence to each and every criticism of Bush. Under the weight of yellow-cake, Scooter Libby (perhaps the thinnest presidential scandal in history, in my opinion), Harriet Meyers, Dubai, Katrina, Alberto Gonzales, et al., who could help but believe that Bush was a disaster.
History, I think, will confirm that Bush was no genius, but a good guy. Even if Iraq ends disastrously, it won’t be near as bad as Vietnam. Even if the media holds onto Scooter Libby and the rest of the “scandals” as firmly as it does Watergate, it won’t be near as bad as Nixon.
In the meantime, the name Bush will be tarnished with far too many people. Palin won’t be under nearly as much scrutiny if McCain wins. But given the ferocity of the attacks thus far, her image will suffer in the long run.
I disagree. The left has been so over the top in its attack on Palin, that even liberal activists have taken note of it. And the perception is actually reality, the left is out to get her. Everyone knows it, so the left has no credibility with the masses anymore. They’re desire to destroy her has destroyed themselves.The main street media is dead as a viable entity. Thank you John McCain for picking Palin, and speeding up it’s demise.
You make a great point but 52 days is a lot shorter time frame than 8 years.
I guess that’s why we are seeing 5 different hit pieces per day about Palin and only 1 hit piece per day about Bush.
The difference between Bush and McCain/Palin is that Bush never really fought back. So far McCain’s ads have been doing great and they have taken bozObama’s statements and bit him in the a** with them. I am sure they have several ads lined up for the crap that has been going on the last several days. I think bozObama is getting extremely desperate and also thinks maybe McCain isn’t going to come up with any more a** biting ads about him. He is mistaken, they are not fighting Bush, they are fighting someone who knows how to fight back and will continue to do so.
I think that his legacy has shown through the media B.S. quite well. We'll see how GWB's stands up in a decade or so.