Lemons to Lemonade

The selection of Governor Sarah Palin will indeed turn out to be quite the thirst quencher for the GOP and those who are sick and tired of the persistent leftist media drumbeat of pessimism and bias against what the US does.

The incessant scandal mongering and outright lies and smears in the press, whether it is MSNBC, US Weekly (or the US Weekly cover we never got to see), or any other outlet, to say nothing of the way that the blogosphere has reacted, is going to rebound on the left in a very harsh way. They're not going to know what hit them because they are alienating 50% of the population and the funniest thing is I don't think the left knows it (though some are already starting to realize that they've made a strategic error of the worst kind and are counseling restraint). Most people are already tuning out the media circus and are awaiting tonight's speech to pass judgment.

The media outlets think that Palin is not one of them and therefore doesn't deserve to be on the ticket and are angry that McCain scooped them. That's why they're throwing out the asinine suggestion of swapping her off the ticket in favor of someone else. It's a very curious suggestion given that the GOP has not been this excited about McCain since the campaign started. He's gone out of the box to go with Palin, although she was definitely high enough on the radar for Jib Jab to include her on the McCain bus (25 seconds in).

It's also parochialism and elitism that is feeding the anti-Palin sentiment in the media. The NYT didn't seem to have a problem when Rep. Geraldine Ferraro ran as Walter Mondale's running mate. Ferraro was their kind of woman. Palin isn't.

The left's insatiable desire for power is leading them to attempt and destroy those who stand in the way of their goals, and that means taking out Sarah Palin and her family. They are all viewed as legitimate targets by the rabid left, and this reaction is not going unnoticed by the rest of America.

Obama and the media both continue to refer to Gov. Palin as nothing more than the mayor of Wasilla (avoiding any mention of the fact that she's the sitting Governor of Alaska), but that is only going to hurt the Obama campaign because it provides such an easy opportunity for the McCain campaign to hit Obama on the critical issue of experience. While you might try and frame the debate about Palin's experience in terms of McCain's judgment, it actually serves to highlight Obama's own inexperience. That too will not go unnoticed by the rest of America.