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The Clintons sold themselves as two-for-one. The Eleanor-Franklin Roosevelt example is famous. This year, both presidential candidates put their wives out front to make speeches because the days of the spouse-who-sits-quietly-beside is over. This isn't an instance of Rovian control, where the leader is not the one really leading. I think Palin has amply shown that she does make decisions, often very awful ones, all on her own.
I'm determined to be fair to this woman, and judge her by her actions and her words, on documented evidence. I don't support her. Heck, I don't like her. But I'm not going to ape the Republican smearmeisters.
When I read these attacks on her kids and her church and—from Salon, of all places!—her gender, I xan't remain silent. I don't believe in one set of rules for my side, and another for the side I'm against. I can't be that kind of hypocrite.
I had hoped Salon would return to form once the Obama-Hillary race was over (remember when Salon was willing to criticize any number of Democrats for their response to the war?). Now it seems obvious that that isn't going to happen.
