Sarah Palin???
The picture on the left was debunked days prior to CNN running it as a headline story
This is a blog I've been kicking around for some time inspired by the events that took place in the run up to the 2008 Presidential election... but my desire to finish it was based in part by a friend who claimed that Sarah Palin was the reason McCain lost.
Now I was unable to finish that conversation, but I disagreed with that premise.
Many of my online friends will remember I was advocating a Thompson/Palin ticket as early as January 2008. I thought that their qualities, a conservative, grandfatherly experienced Beltway politician who was not a DC insider, and a young, conservative Beltway outsider, but with political experience was what our country needed.
A common sense pair with Palin being the youthful energy willing to challenge the staus quo and Thompson having the chops to tell the Old Guard to let her have at it.
However, Thompson never got in the race and the MSM coronation of McCain as the RNC candidate just as the DNC picked Obama to be their candidate.
When McCain chose Palin to be his VP candidate it was the most exciting thing to invigorate a campaign destined to fail. McCain v. Obama was destined to be a one sided battle with the senior Senator from Arizona being the one led to slaughter.
While die hard Republicans got behind McCain that is a no-brainer... they would have gotten behind anyone that won the nomination. But conservatives we not so enthused with the thought of another right leaning moderate in the White House, especially one like McCain who was a member of the Gang of 14 and instrumental in the McCain - Feingold debacle and the McCain - Kennedy amnesty fiasco.
Likewise much of the "independent" support for McCain was split straight down party lines with hard left and left leaning indies trending towards Obama and right leaners trending to McCain with hard right indies and moderates having no preference.
Sarah Palin got the party started.
She was energetic, enthusiastic and genuine.
An unabashed pro-life woman.
So the media marked her for death.
The media went absolutely nuts and went running to Alaska to learn the "real" Sarah Palin. Of course the first story to emerge was that her newborn baby was really her daughter's child and Sarah was merely posing as the mother to cover for her 17 year old daughter's indrescetion.
And through this media generated lie young Bristol was outed as being pregnant... in the national media.
And when the media can stoop so low as to begin their research into someone they didn't know, solely because of their ignorance, they is no basement to how low they will proceed to dip... and they didn't disappoint, the MSM set new standards of despicable behavior in the treatment of Sarah Palin... a disgrace that continues to this day.
But out of the ashes of this event we have realized an incredible truth:
The media is so in the tank for Democrats that they will lie, steal, and spread propaganda as truth, in order to take down anyone who opposes their (liberal Democrat) views. It became so evident in the run up to the 2008 elections that everyone except the most rabid Democrats knows that the MSM is the de facto public relations arm of the DNC.
And you need not look beyond the rating and circulation numbers for the majority of the MSM, in all arenas, to see that their propaganda efforts may have helped them win an election but the cost was their credibility.
So even though she and her family suffered mercilessly at the pens of the MSM, a trend perpetuated to this day across the liberal media enterprise (witness Letterman's lame "joke") she gets the last laugh as the media can no longer be trusted and everyone now can see this, and they continue their inexorable slide toward their twin destinations of bankruptcy and irrelevance.
Of course she can also console herself in the fact that the left continues to attack her because, much as they demonstrated last August, they are afraid of her... which is why the attacks continue.
The Palin family picture prior to the birth of their youngest son. The Lame Stream Media used it as "proof" that it was Bristol who was pregnant at the time... as opposed to Sarah who was "hiding" behind her youngest daughter.
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