Agree or disagree? It's fine to talk about Palin all you want, for the simple reason that...

she's ON THE TICKET!!!!!!!!!!!! If it was her children, or Cindy McCain, or Hillary Clinton, or whoever getting all the attention here, then it would be right to try to tone it down. But Sarah Palin is the one nominated, so as far as I'm concerned she's fair game. Agree or disagree?

Which unfortunately excludes a whole lot of DUers.

Kos nails it:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/13/2011/51910/943/597071

"To all the concerned people emailing me about "being played", don't waste your time. I'm not about to revert to writing puff pieces about Obama thinking that his magic "new politics" bullshit will carry us to victory. He may or may not believe that crap, but I don't. We're going to win this thing the way campaigns are won -- by playing hardball. Politics is a blood sport. Republicans understand this and never flinch from flinging the shit. We won't win until we learn to fight back in kind. And I'm more than happy to get down in the mud with our friends on the Right so Obama doesn't have to.

Recent history vindicates the "tough and aggressive" path. We went toe to toe against Rove and his machine in 2006, and our math beat his. I have no doubt we're in for a two-peat this year, and it'll happen because we won't back off from exposing the GOP for the den of lies and corruption it has become."


Fucking worthless handwringers.

And if her feeble old mentally incompetent running mate dies in office, she would be fucking president. And we're fucking supposed to avoid talking about her? I don't know what people are thinking sometimes.

is very "Bush" what with the friends getting important jobs and enemies being bullied and attacked at their jobs.

is merely one form of allowing the McCain campaign to dictate the discussion.

Smear McCain, Palin, and Republican enablers with Bush-Cheney.

Palin was chosen to be the old barn lightning rod. The lightning rod prevents an actual lightning bolt from striking the barn by slowly and continuously dissipating the static charge between the clouds above the barn and the earth. Dissipating the charge slowly prevents the voltage from reaching a level that would break down the atmosphere and allow a lightning bolt to form.

Similarly, Palin serves as a lightning rod to keep attention away from McCain, Bush, Cheney, and the Republican Party. We must not let her dissipate our energies from going after McCain and the rest of the Republicans.

We should not stop exposing Palin for the empty-headed, vindictive, right-wing, fundy whacko that she is. However, we should not let her distract us from attacking McCain and his Republican Party enablers.

I think that we should make use of Bush-Cheney's unpopularity. Point out that McCain now embraces the Bush policies that have caused many of the country's current problems, and that Palin's personality reminds one of Cheney with lipstick.