Desperation You Can Believe In

The Sarah Palin VP pick has brought on liberal panic. I’ve never seen so much fear pouring out of the blogosphere in a long time. Of course, much of this has the pretext of concern with experience.

While Palin’s resume is thin, this is somewhere that liberals really don’t want to go there as their nominee is less qualified to be President than Dennis Kucinich and has spent much of his Senate Career either AWOL from his official duties or enjoying congressional recesses. This is why Obama backed off his campaign’s initial statement attack Palin’s experience. He knows how disastrous this line of attack would be if it became official campaign mantra.

How many liberals really recoiled with the thoughts. “My God our country wouldn’t be safe with her in charge.” 

This is pretext, this is not the real issue. This is a message they’re trying to communicate is about experience, but I think it has little to do with their motives.  The election of Sarah Palin as Vice-President is fundamentally a game-changer in American politics and cultural. She becomes the most powerful woman in the World.

What happens to the left when the most powerful woman in the world is a pro-life gun owning Evangelical Christian? Disaster. That’s what these desperate attacks have been about.

Captain Ed Morrissey does a great job running through the most common liberal attacks on Governor Palin with such precision that it would be pointless for me to even try to top it.

However, Idaho’s own liberal bloggers are bragging about a Palin story that Morrissey didn’t mention:

Governor Palin is closely allied with Senator Stevens.He endorsed her in her 2006 election.

This is a nice statement. Problem is, it isn’t true. Writes Doug Adams (of the Network that even Bill Maher recognizes is too friendly with Barack Obama):

When Palin was running for governor in 2006, she ousted long time Alaska fixture Frank Murkowski in a hard fought primary. Stevens and Murkowski are long time friends and Palin was able to defeat the sitting governor by running on ethics and clean government reformist platform.

Stevens ultimately came to endorse Palin, but it was late in the game. He endorsed her less than three weeks before the general election, although he did cut a television advertisement for her.

In July of last year, Palin shocked and angered Stevens by publicly criticizing him for his role in the VECO scandal and called for him to speak out about it. 

“I think I join others in wanting to know of the senator’s innocence,” Palin said. “Right now, we’re not hearing anything.”  

When Stevens was indicted last month for month on corruption charges, Palin said the indictment “rocks the foundation of the state” and added that she shares with others “dismay” and concern.

To try and tie her to the political machine she’s been at war with, even putting her name behind Sean Parnell in his race against 18 1/2 term Incumbent Don Young shows total ignorance and desperation.

Other notes:

The Politico released five media questions for Sarah Palin and question 3 is, “Does she believe in Evolution?” The answer from here on out from any candidate should be, “I will not be in charge of picking eighth grade science curriculum for every school in America. Thank you.” Really, the evolution thing is becoming like a red scare, “Are you now or have you ever been a creationist?” (Hat Tip: Instapundit.)

Finally, the quote of the day on Palin: “The smart liberals are worried. The dumb ones think they’ve won.” (Hat Tip: Director Blue.)

UPDATE:
I think we’ve bottomed out. Congratulations to Alan Colmes: blaming her for her child’s disability.  I don’t think you can get much lower. (Hat Tip: Newsbusters.)