That was a good post and made me laugh at the end.
But, on second thought, it’s not funny. Did you think the last minute one night stand without sex pictures were funny? Buying into the personal attacks just empowers and emboldens the enemy.
No I didn’t think it was funny. It was a cheap shot and very poor taste. People went after Palin’s son and called him a “retard baby”. That was also very poor taste. Such things are terrible and I don’t like it whenever it is done no matter who the target is (Obama with the african witch doctor photo).
On the other hand.
That story did not cost her the race. Bristol’s shenanigans or slurs on Trig did not cost the McCain/Palin ticket the race. I’m not cheering that tactic at all but it was totally irrelevant. Now I’m assuming that it was irrelevant someone in Delaware may have read that story and said “my god she doesn’t shave! I must vote for Coons!” I have no idea how people in Delaware decide how to vote. I can just look at numbers.
The fact remains we lost that race. We lost because of a poor campaign (poorly run not poor for $) by a women with no bona fide fiscal conservative experience but plenty of bona fide personal baggage. Me? Personally I couldn’t care less what a Senator does with their love life. I care how they vote and how they enable my ideological allies to vote. COD would have been a better vote than Castle? Probably. But Castle would have been a better vote than Coons.
COD’s personal baggage (she had to spend more time talking about not being a witch than Obamacare for example) has cost us one seat already I don’t want her to cost us more. The Democrats are going to try to use her like we used Pelosi to get the vote out. This isn’t the time to play nice and coddle people because we like their campaign ads. If someone becomes a burden to our goal of staving of fiscal Armageddon they got to go.