If the cards fall into place and she accepts a Senate position.

John McCain would still get the opportunity to introduce her to Washington, and therefore, the two of them would still get a chance to “clean up Washington and put Government back on the side of the People”.

Very interesting possibility.

Just picture McCain introducing her: “Ladies and Gentlemen, I introduce you to your worst nightmare … Sarah Baracuda”.

Imagine the camera crews following her around like no other Senator.

I posted a few days ago that the McCain campaign needed to immediately respond to the attacks on Palin because their silence only seemed to reinforce the leaks.

Having read and listened to all the defenders of Palin in the last couple days, and even Sarah’s defense of herself, I’m satisfied that the attacks on her were either lies, distortions, or grossly out of context.

I have always been a fan of Sarah Palin and I’m glad people have spoken up on her behalf.

Here’s what I’ve gathered

And two videos here

[But let me explain something here. We have lots of people who write blog entries. There is a finite amount of front page space for the list. That means that blog entries will eventually fall off of the front page. This is a thing that happens.]

[When it does, it is a natural tendency to redo the exact same darn diary over and over again, to keep it on the front page. We saw a lot of this during the election, mostly involving the same four or five stories/rumors; and, do you know? It was counterproductive. So: the objections in comments below are noted, and I'm treating this as a spam duplicate diary. Hence, the replacement of the text.]

[Note that the author has not been banned, mostly because I've checked him out and he isn't a left-wing plant. But he should take the hint and stop being so much of a one-trick pony. - Moe Lane]

I have been a huge fan and public defender of Sarah Palin here in New York City since the week she was picked.

I was thrilled that she did well at the VP debate.

But the specific rumors about Palin’s lack of knowledge or “knowledgeability” as Carl Cameron stated it to Bill O’Reilly (video here) must be considered and if not true must be specifically repudiated by the McCain campaign, if not by the man himself … John McCain.

From Cameron:

“gaps in her knowledge … things she simply didn’t know … real problems with basic civics … government structures … municipal, state, and federal government responsibilities … she didn’t know the nations involved in NAFTA … she wasn’t able to name the countries in the NAFTA debate … she didn’t understand that Africa was a continent and not a country … Palin asked the aides if South Africa wasn’t just part of the country of Africa as opposed to a country in the continent. Palin didn’t understand the idea of American Exceptionalism. All of these things caused great doubts, great doubts“.

Cameron continues:
Palin refused preparation for the Couric interview, it didn’t go well, and Palin blamed Nicole Wallace. The rift then began to unfold. Palin then began to attack staff and suggest she was mishandled and communicated that to a handful of people both in the McCain campaign and outside and then the real back and forth (infighting) began. The campaign felt she wasn’t prepared to get out there on her own and defend herself (and I’d have to agree with them!).

O’Reilly confesses that Palin wanted to do an interview with him but McCain aides wouldn’t let her … that “Senator (McCain) had to sit next to her”!

I ask all you fine folks to consider these rumors. Do you really think someone would have made up all these specific charges and leaked them and not be concerned that at least one McCain or Palin aide would go on the air and dismiss these as vicious, complete lies and identify the liars?

Isn’t it significant that no one has?!

You don’t think there’s a shred of probability that these charges are true?

If true, the dear Sarah Palin should not seek the national spotlight again for the sake of our party and the GOP should not seek her out again. It is time we moved on. I’m sure you would agree.

It doesn’t matter how much we fell in love with her story. This lack of knowledge and her behavior cannot be representative of the national GOP.

That said … I will make some calls today to the McCain campaign and John McCain’s offices to get some response.

I honestly hope these charges are false. If not however, we need to say goodbye to dear Sarah.

Victor T

David Frum’s piece is here.

My response:

David:

Your entire post is about the survival of the Republican party without acknowledging that the GOP actually stands for some important values and core beliefs. You suggest we abandon our principles … for votes. There’s something very sleazy in your post and very obviously so.

How are we to win over college graduates when colleges are dominated by leftist professors?

The failures of the GOP during the Bush years are obvious (and not all his fault):

1. massive growth of gov’t.

2. scandal upon Republican scandal

3. Iraq War — the management of the post war period. We should have gone in with overwhelming force, prevented the outbreak of anarchy, and not disenfranchised the Sunnis.

4. Failure to lead on the economy and head off the meltdown.

Solutions:

We have to think about what we can do about the leftist majority in the college profession.

We have to think about how we can articulate conservative values to the masses that are brainwashed by liberal, bankrupt ideology.

You suggest, Mr. Frum, that what we need to do is understand where these brainwashed moveon.org, dailykos zombies are at … and adjust our views to them:

You say: “To do so will involve painful change, on issues ranging from the environment to abortion. And it will involve potentially even more painful changes of style and tone: toward a future that is less overtly religious”.

We conservatives who honestly don’t believe in anthropogenic global warming should nonetheless pretend to believe and adjust our economy on Al Gore’s time frame so we can really push ourselves into a Depression?

Abortion: Those of us who believe that little innocent humans in the 3rd trimester of their development deserve protection under the same Constitution that allows Tim Robbins to keep breathing should just “adjust” our style and tone for votes?

We should be less overtly religious?? Exactly which GOP candidate was this way in the last two years? Who? I swear … listening to you is like reading a dailykos diary.

If I may borrow from David Brooks … you Mr. Frum are a cancer on the GOP.

Victor T

Queens, NY

aka “Vic the I.T. Guy”