However, in going through the replies there just moments ago, came across this one that has concerned me for some time:
I would like nothing better than eight years of President Palin. But there is an "800-lb gorilla" in the room that impinges on the media's impotence and that I have not seen mentioned virtually anywhere on the net. Andy Stern's infamous comment, that when the power of persuasion fails you use the persuasion of power, as applied to the Left's inability to successfully attack Palin with words leads to the question of what the Left will do when it finally accepts that words have failed them. I fear for her safety, and that of her family; I really do. She is unique in American politics just now, and with no moral constraints at least some on the Left will be drawn to a solution that, to them, will seem obvious. We would be hiding our heads in the sand not to acknowledge it and do what we can to prevent it -- which is, chiefly, raise public awareness of the attractiveness of that option to her enemies. Shining the light of day on that possibility makes it less attractive to them; so we should be very loud about it. Our pride is worth less than her safety. As an afterthought, I would tweak one of the author's statements, above. He wrote: "To the media, facts are unimportant so long as the story forwards the agenda." I think it is more accurate to say: "To the media, truth is unimportant so long as the lie forwards the agenda." I realize, that's pretty strong -- perhaps too strong for the purposes of a reasoned narrative. But is is more accurate. show more
I think you said what many of us think and will not give voice to because we want to believe it is unthinkable. So we push it somewhere to the dark part of our mind, and we pray. We pray that G-d still loves this country and will protect what we hold so dear. There is no other route for us to take because Sarah knows this and she wlll run in spite of it. Fear will not stop her and it shouldn’t stop us either.