by Grant Springs

Created on: September 09, 2008   Last Updated: September 10, 2008

The first news reports concerning John McCain's running mate pick of little known Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin, were met with wind shear like amazement from the press and voters alike. We were all still trying to put our jaws back into alignment when we learn that McCain's choice of Palin nets a moon shot ticket boost in the polls shuddering the liberal core. What appears on the surface to be folly turns out to be one of the shrewdest political moves of the last half century.

What? You say that is absurd, as you rattle off with certainty Palin's shortcomings. She does not have the experience or the qualifications to be president. President Palin would shoot liberals from Air Force One and heat the Whitehouse with banned books if elected. President MILF under war time powers would strike evolution from schools and replace it with "real science." Palin would make "sex ed" a national treasure buried so deep that Nicholas Cage couldn't find it while her kids churn out a constant stream of God's children. The fertile President Palin would ban abortion and crucify offenders while conceiving in the oval office. Yes liberals, Palin is made of the stuff that makes the veins in your head pulse in hip hop rhythm. She is an opportunistic, crack shot religious zealot. Akin to the antithesis of the liberal cause and she is well aware of this fact. But there is also something that you should be aware.

Each time you attack and belittle the incandescent pit bull Palin, you crystallize the conservative electorate. Have you never listened to Rush Limbaugh? Do you not know that you are part of the "elite press?" You are part of a grim band of soft high minded saps that amusingly look down on those other less fortunate, less educated, less intellectual Americans, better known as crack shot religious zealots that cling to religion and guns. By making direct attacks on Palin you witlessly undermine your own goals. The conservative fundamentalists want to be persecuted, just like Jesus and the apostles. The conservative right wants a duel that simmers the embers of discontent and class warfare. The conservative right does not want the electorate to focus on the real issues.

McCain has succeeded in making the liberals "punch drunk" on Palin while they wave victory flags from the economic and war time graves dug and maintained by the Bush White House. Do not accept the urge to lose focus to the McCain inspired circus side show emanating from the RNC. Palin is too easy a target for late night talk show hosts who get paid to lampoon politicians. The focus is off the real issues and the election race at present is little more than a soulless Will Farrell screenplay that ends with McCain and Palin shooting doves on the Whitehouse lawn. Liberals should stop attacking Sarah Palin with righteous ambivalence and start beating the "real Americans" other the head with the economic and moral bankruptcy of the "W" administration. McCain needs to be branded as the "new old loyal Bushy" and Palin nothing more than a rubbernecking side show diversion.

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