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A few thoughts on the whirlwind that has been the Sarah Palin Labor Day weekend experience.

B-Daddy commented that he was worried about McCain’s judgement with respect to what has appeared to be a rather lax vetting process and that his selection appears to be a living, breathing example of “Maverick’s” fighter pilot’s gut instinct taking precedent over a rational, contemplative proceedings that either score a direct hit or crash and burn. He’s right, but, also and along those same lines, the selection of Palin is just the perfect continuation of our theme for supporting McCain, in the first place.

For all the “baggage” Palin is supposedly carrying around and for all her alleged inexperience, just remember who’s 3rd in terms of succession, folks. And also remember that John Edwards was only a one-term Senator himself when he was Kerry’s running mate 4 years ago

And “Troopergate”…? Or did you mean “Troopergate?” Just what is it with these governors from rural states starting with the letter “A” and their law enforcement agencies?

The reason we’re bringing this up is because these two aforementioned issues are indeed legitimate issues. The “experience” charge can be legitimately leveled and legitimately countered. That’s how civil discourse and debate works. That’s how people make up their mind on who they will vote for in a democracy. “Troopergate” is a legitimate issue. We hope the facts come out and that Governor Palin accounts for herself in a truthful manner regarding what sort of influence she did exert.

But over the weekend what do lefty bloggers, instead, latch onto and what does the press dutifully lap-up but the controversy surrounding Sarah Palin, her son Trig who suffers from Down’s Syndrome and her oldest daughter Bristol. The Daily Kos, who has been at the forefront of this noble truthing effort was forced to take down a post claiming Sarah Palin was lying about her giving birth to Trig as she was covering for the fact that Trig was actually Bristol’s son. All this based upon a photo taken that showed Bristol with an alleged “baby-bump”. Go ahead and look at the photo. What Bristol possesses, however, is what we down here in the Lower 48 and which possess an I.Q. above room temperature and who do not have hearts seething with rage refer to as “baby-fat”. Nice work, Kos.

The Left has ample material on Palin by which to work but what do they focus on instead: the motherhood of a young boy with Down’s syndrome and the propriety of a mother of 5 taking on the duties of Vice President which is highly ironic, of course, as it betrays the liberal/Left mantra of “having your family and career, too”.

Didn’t seem to be an issue with John Kennedy… oh, he was the dad…the husband. Got sexism?

Anyway, we encourage those on the Left who wish to pursue these sordid and disgusting storylines as its apparent it makes them feel all tingly inside, sends a thrill up their leg to talk about teen sex and satisfies their desire to take down a self-made woman who is not perfect, whose family is not perfect and to our knowledge never made claims to the contrary. And we welcome them also for purely selfish reasons as, if they continue, may prove to turn this election into a walk.

Backlash is a bitch, y’all.

Nice read here from Rich Lowry on PDS