[Dilbert56]

• Without Sarah Palin, McCain '08 would have looked remarkably like Dole '96.
• Palin called out 0bama for his duplicity, talking one way in Scranton and another in San Francisco. That "Emperor has no clothes" reality ran counter the mediots and their worship of "The Zero", I mean "The One".
• She took away the Left's playing cards. She's a soccer/hockey mom and the Democrats need the whole world to believe they own the "women's vote".
• She threatened the "historic" card of having the first non-white President. Electing her would have been historic as well.

So they had to crush her. Lies, rumors, bogus investigations, ignoring Biden's stupidity, no tactic is out of bounds when the goal is to defang the only real candidate in the field.

[weegee]

Every election is historic. And not just because it becomes “landmark” (first draft dodger, first Vietnam Vet, first African/American, first woman, first POW...).

They become historic because each president will chart a different course. It BECOMES history.

But YES, the talking point was that the election of Obama was “historic” (in a way that electing McCain/Palin would NOT have been historic) and that WITH this election, something formerly unattainable was NOW possible. Except it was always possible.

I could always win the lottery too. Of course I could always NOT win the lottery as well. But it would be historic in my life if I did, because then I would become an instant millionaire.