[X-Servative]

I understand how politics works, and if this is how people behave in order to get there candidate elected, then we get the leadership we deserve.

[Sir Francis Dashwood]

I understand how politics works,...

Do you?

[M1911A1]

You don’t bring a knife to a gunfight, pal. The left has been engaging in one giant smear campaign against Palin, and they have asked for it.

A lofty campaign debating the issues is the ideal, but if you let the other side win by going down with the ship that was torpedoed by smears, all you have done is drowned.

We should debate the issues, because I think conservatives are right on the issues. We shouldn’t engage in the same sort of smears that the left does.

This gaffe is not part of Obama’s private life, his family and it isn’t a baldfaced lie.

We’ll get the leadership we deserve if we are bullied into accepting the attacks of our enemies without hitting back...not on the level of our foe, with lies and the trashing of the innocent. If Obama publicly hands us a cudgel like this and we disdain to use it, then we deserve to lose.

[mabelkitty]

I don’t think you do.
You are taking this oddly personal. Almost as if it had happened to you personally.

[floriduh voter]

There’s nothing outrageous on this thread. Toughen up for your own good.