McCain Staffers Mock Palin

How classy can you get…

The Cowardly Character Assassination of Sarah Palin by Michelle Malkin

[McCain staffers] turned to Newsweek and Fox News to spread petty rumors about Palin’s intellect and character. The magazine peddled anecdotes from sources horrified that Palin greeted top advisers at her hotel room — gasp! — “wearing nothing but a towel” and “wet hair.” Fox News reporter Carl Cameron breathlessly reported that his unnamed McCain sources told him Palin lacked “a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate” because, they claimed, she didn’t know which countries were parties to the North American Free Trade Agreement and “didn’t understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself.”

Let’s assume for a moment that the McCain rumormongers are telling the truth about Palin (and I don’t believe they are). Who would it damn more: Palin, or McCain and his vetters, who greenlighted her for the vice presidential nomination? Don’t need a fancy Ivy League degree to figure that one out.

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Hollywood savaged Palin. Journalists mocked her. Liberal blogs slimed her. Opponents cursed her, Photoshopped her, hacked her e-mail, hanged her in effigy, called her bigot, Bible-thumper and bimbo, and attacked her husband and children. But nothing Palin endured during the election season compares to the treatment she’s receiving from these backstabbing blabbermouths who worked on the same campaign she poured herself into over the last three months.

Sarah Palin worked her heart out. She energized tens of thousands to come out when they would have otherwise stayed home. She touched countless families. I didn’t agree with everything she said on the campaign trail. But she vigorously defended the Second Amendment and the sanctity of life more eloquently in practice than any of the educated conservative aristocracy. And she did it all with a tirelessness and an infectious optimism that defied the shameless, bottomless attempts by elites in both parties to bring her and her family down.

Sarah Palin was the only reason McCain ever had a chance to win. She was sharp, intelligent, elegant, and despite a constant assault of outrageous attacks against her and her family, she displayed much grace and class.

She is an asset to conservatives.

Meanwhile, instead of thanking Palin for doing the real campaigning that a cowardly McCain felt beneath his dignity, she is attacked by her own side.

She is a class act, and we’re lucky she’s on our side. Hopefully, she will return in 2012, although who can blame her if she did not?

Filed under: John McCain/Sarah Palin , backstabbers, Crazy liberals, John McCain, Judases, rumormongers, Sarah Palin