The MSM trashed Palin in order to get their boy elected. They succeeded in that effort. Now, Palin is counting on them taking their eye off the ball, so she can rehabilitate her image while they are off concentrating on other things.
If she wants a future in national politics, she has to re-define herself. Otherwise, the “Caribou Barbie” label will stick, and she will have about as much of a future as Dan Quayle. The time to do that is now. The way to do it is to do just what she is doing now. She needs to answer her critics, point for point, and call them jerks when they are being jerks, and call them liars when they are telling lies. The time to do that is right now, while national attention is still focused in her direction. Nobody cared what Dan Quayle had to say about anything in 1993. It was already too late for him.
Right now, folks are interested in affixing blame for the GOP loss. If Palin sat back passively, the blame would naturally fall to her, and she would be irretrievably cast as the lightweight airhead who cost John McCain the election and the right wing of the GOP would be cast as the ideological dead-enders that kept McCain from winning the election by grabbing the crucial middle. That is a story that practically writes itself. The MSM is, first and formost, ideological. But a close second in their list of traits is that they are lazy. They love stories that write themselves. Palin needs to stand in the way and make sure that this particular story cannot write itself.
Palin is fighting for her future and for the future of the right wing of the GOP. It is a fight we need her to win.
It is a fight we need to help her win.
Sarah Rocks
What you said.