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The defense of Sarah Palin by labeling her a victim of ridicule is pretty tough to swallow. She dished out an awful lot herself on Obama ("palling around with terrorists"), and never made any attempt to quell the overt hostility at her rallies (remember "Off with his head!" and the like?). Obama never stamped his feet and quit the race. He paid it little attention and let his supporters do the talking. Palin let herself be baited into p*ssing matches with Letterman, obscure, leftist bloggers that no one had ever heard of or read, and of course, the 'mainstream media'. Because Katie Couric really did a whole lot to goad her into making really strange, incoherent statements.
As for the Letterman thing and people making sexual jokes about her - if she wanted to avoid that kind of thing, she should have never sexualized herself in the first place, which she most certainly did. One of her biggest draws was that people found her "Milfy". She was certainly using to her advantage until people started making jokes about it - you can't have it both ways. That's why politicians, especially female ones, usually don't go down the "sexy candidate" road. It's a can of worms not easily closed.
At worst, she has proved most of her detractors right in leaving her post. At best, it's an opportunistic and selfish money-grab that has little to do with actually furthering her agenda, whatever her agenda is.
Comment Posted By extremecentrist On 4.07.2009 @ 10:37
