Our candidates are not more pathetic than theirs.
It is just that the erosive process by liberals in the government, media, Hollywood and general public begins far before any Republican or conservative candidate even declares.
The chipping process begins years in advance. Just look at Sarah Palin. Those entities described above began chipping away, eroding and destroying her from the very second someone breathed her name in the public eye as presidential or vice presidential material.
This relentless, corrosive process begins and continues unabated until/after election day or the candidate drops out of a race.
Every single pore of their face, every rumor, every misstep, every contradiction, every flaw is relentlessly probed, analyzed, publicized, hashed over, exaggerated and spread until the truth or pertinence maintains no relationship to reality or sanity.
Not just actual flaws or mistakes are processed in this fashion by the liberal media/politicians/public/Hollywood, but actual slander. It makes no difference if some trumpeted flaw or misdeed has any basis in reality, they are communicated as reality. And when, after vigorous disproval, the subject is dropped by those slanderers without a word of explanation, apology or retraction, it is as if it had never occurred. It disappears into the Memory Hole only to resurface over, and over, and over again (in the Internet, opinion columns and cocktail conversation) like a drowning man breaking the surface before finally disappearing for good years or decades later.
If you were able to take the process by which a landscape is eroded over eons by the inexorable application of the elements (the flow of water, the force of the wind and movement of the earth’s crust) and speed it up to match the cycle from which a Republican or conservative candidate is either rumored to be considering or actually announces a candidacy to their destruction or defeat and change the forces of nature to the forces of liberal media and opinion, it would demonstrate the exact parallel.
No liberal candidate undergoes this prolonged and unwavering treatment. Never. Ever. If they were, the truth would be revealed about liberalism and its relative merits, and that cannot be allowed to happen.
None of this means crapola now. Things will change so much between now and then.
We need aomeone like Palin who is willing to fight this and not back down. She backed down. At some point people will realize that our freedom is ours to lose. Life without freedom is death anyways.