She’s a smarter person than that.
She should have known that her 17 year old daughter being pregnant would be an issue. Was it right to make it an issue and attack Bristol personally? No. But this is politics. And she was going up against the biggest thugs in the game.
The campaign knew it would happen. Sarah knew it would happen or else she wouldn’t have informed the McCain camp about the pregnancy during the vetting process.
Point is, simply because she was viciously attacked in 2008 doesn’t mean we should automatically elect her to vindicate her. That is not going to help this country.
She deserves our support. She is one of us. She represents regular people.
The attacks on her family were worse than anything they did to the Bush family or the Dole family.
I haven’t heard anybody say or write that Sarah should be the 2012 GOP presidential nominee to VINDICATE her for the 2008 campaign. Certainly I have never used that argument.
I simply believe she is best prepared to take Obama on one-on-one and that it will take someone with superstar abilities to defeat the Messiah. Having said that, that is why the GOP has primaries, to separate the wheat from the chaff. If Palin doesn’t pass muster so be it.
Another point. There are other Sarah Palins in this country (some of them young.. in school) who saw how Sarah was treated. And if she does not succeed. they may be scared away from politics based on what happened to her.
If she succeeds. The other Sarah Palins in this country will see that they HAVE A CHANCE.
That is why it is VERY IMPORTANT to this country.