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• Monday, September 8, 2008 10:44 PM

  absolutely disgraceful...

  Gary Kamiya's piece is one of the most disgraceful articles that I've read on this site in a long time. Has Salon just given up any pretense of taste in favor of publishing any hit-piece against Palin that anyone is willing to scrawl?

  The photo is blatantly sexist, and the text was a screed that could have been penned by a frustrated 12-year-old trying to prove his mastery of pop psychology.

  If the author had bothered to do any research, he would have found that the shift in the polls is due largely to the movement of *women* over to McCain, specifically the white women who were Hillary's core demographic.

  Why do I think Palin has become such a phenomenon? I think she owes it all to sites like Salon, Huffington Post, and DailyKos. The instant after McCain announced her as his vice presidential running mate, sites like this jeered and sneered, and they tried to turn her into a big joke--this all without having heard her out even once first.

  So, there last Wednesday was Sarah Palin--standing alone on a stage facing down 36 million Democrats and a media who quite frankly thought she was a joke or some desperate gambit by the McCain camp, along with hostile Republicans (Romney, Huckabee, and Pawlenty supporters I suspect) all of whom expected (hoped?) to see a train wreck. In the face of all that, she gave THE speech of the convention, possibly of the campaign.

  If nothing else, whether one likes her politics or not, Palin showed that night that she was as tough as nails, poised, and in possession of an impressive grace under fire. I don't know many (any?) politicians who could have pulled that speech off under those circumstances.

  So, the Democrats shouldn't be surprised that she was able to move some voters. Ther task now (if they want to win) is to get those voters back by making the case that the voters' interests are incompatible with her--and McCain's (remember him?)--policies.

  But my guess is that sites like this will post up more articles treating her like she was just some ditsy bimbo. If that's the case, well, at least the Democrats will still have control of Congress and 2012 isn't *that* far off...

  p.s. $10 says Kamiya's article shows up as evidence that Obama supporters are just a bunch of misogynists at heart. Thanks, Gary.

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