[dr_who]

I think you both make very valid points. Palin has to get thicker skin, and savvier press people. Having said that, the daughter/A-Rod comment was so low, so beneath even the lowest standard of decency, she had to comment. I would have shortened, and simplified her statement, but it is what it is.

If she didn't, it would have encouraged other talk show host s***heads to say the same things. But it's a constant give and take, the outcome depends on the public mood. But when the public is so jaded with politics, it's hard to see a political solution for what's screwed up with our culture.

[mountainbunny]

But when the public is so jaded with politics, it's hard to see a political solution for what's screwed up with our culture.

There isn't a political solution to what is screwed up with our country.

The only thing that politics and politicians can do is get out of the way, get out of the private lives of citizens, and let people sink or swim on their own merits.

People tend to lead moral, thoughtful lives when they have the responsibility to do so. When they don't have the responsibility, they do what they like, and to heck with morals.

The solution isn't more "conservative" social programs to fix society's ills. It is many fewer social programs of all types, shapes and sizes.