I'm a little bit astonished today.
The Politico has received an opposition research file from the Alaska Democrats. You can read it in PDF here.And the Drudge Report:
In the file, the Democrats have released Sarah Palin's social security number minus the last four digits. Also tied to the information are her various home addresses.
Back in 2005, Democrats used Michael Steele's social security number to get his credit record.
It is atrocious that the Democrats would not only seek out Sarah Palin's social security number, but release it in opposition research to the press.
NY TIMES FEATURES 3 PAGE ONE STORIES ON PALIN'S TEEN DAUGHTER IN TUESDAY EDITIONS...At this:
McCain campaign rips NYT reporter for factual errors...
Philadelphia Columnist Warns: 'If McCain wins, look for full-fledged race war'...
SCHULTZ: The facts are this. What kind of mother is she? Is she prepared to be the vice president? Is she going to be totally focused on the issues.And this:
MOLINARI: Wow. You got to be…
SANCHEZ: Whoa, whoa, whoa.
SCHULTZ: There are questions.
MOLINARI: I bet you don’t have a lot of women listeners there, do you? If you do, you’re not going to have them tomorrow after…
SCHULTZ: Actually, today on my show, I took only phone calls…
MOLINARI: Oh my gosh.
SANCHEZ: Wow.
SCHULTZ: from women and they are not happy with them.
MOLINARI: So every — so every person out there who has an unwanted pregnancy in their family is a result of bad mothering? Wow. That’s really bold to say that.
SCHULTZ: Don’t tell me she’s a role model.
MOLINARI: Come on…
SCHULTZ: You know, most professional gardeners have a really nice yard, you know what I mean?
SANCHEZ: You know what, she’s…
SCHULTZ: Most professional gardeners cut their own lawn.
SANCHEZ: No, I’m thinking in all of our families…
SCHULTZ: It seems to me they have trouble in their backyard.
Video: “How can a woman run a state and bring up … five children at the same time?”I've seen rough politics before, but they really came out swinging for the fences this time. I've seen the media try to deny air to a political campaign to kill it, and I've seen them run imbalanced coverage of the two sides (rember 'the glow about them' when it was Kerry/Edwards?).
I don't believe I've seen the media try to actually destroy a candidate in the first week before this.
Governor Palin is obviously terrifying to these folks, and it's not because she's 'inexperienced' or because she has a teenage daughter. She's running for VP, and has at least as much experience as Sen. Obama -- who is running for the top spot.
I will be steadfast in defense of this lady. Neither she nor her family deserves this. Entering the public eye has come to entail some rough-and-tumble treatment, but this is new. Releasing her social security number to the public? Three (!) front page stories on her daughter in one day?
And the attacks -- when we were talking about Senator Clinton, it was things like Senator Obama saying "the claws come out." They were small, belittling but each affront from any noteworthy individual too small to point to by itself. "I understand that Senator Clinton, periodically when she's feeling down," he said, and it could have been just an odd phrasing. You couldn't prove it was an attack on her as a woman. What was disturbing was the pattern, which grew ever larger, but the individual statements were never so blatant, neither from him nor those supporters who pretended to respectable behavior.
That standard has been abandoned entirely.
As Cassandra notes, it's not just us to notice.
It’s Over. We’ve lost.It's a good post. The language is rough, but I gather it is rough from righteous anger. They have a right to be angry, and so do we.
September 2nd, 2008. The 2008 Election ended this morning as a vast cadre of liberals, progressives, Democrats and like minded journalists lifted the white flag and surrendered.
We surrendered something a whole lot more valuable than our vote. We surrendered our principles. We surrendered our core values.
We surrendered all hope. We surrendered our shared dreams that our daughters would inherit a better world, a world of promise, equality, justice, fairness and honor.
We had dreamed of a world where our 17 years old daughters wouldn’t be striped naked and raped on the front page of the New York Times, above the fold.
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