Hiking The Low Road

AllahPundit at Hot Air has a pretty thorough roundup of the latest, I’ll send you over there to read all he has put together before continuing reading this post.

Finished? Well then, let me put my two cents in. First, the slime who were pushing the Palin rumors were not only wrong, they were spectacularly wrong. Retractions, anyone? I’m not holding my breath.

Second, if the caricature of the right that the left assumes exists were actually real, this might be trouble. However, the left’s version of the right has never existed anywhere but in the left’s twisted minds, so it isn’t. Instead, the left’s (and the media’s) gleeful attacks will backfire, spectacularly. Attacking a minor child to get at a politician will cause a backlash of, excuse the term here, biblical proportions.

The one person on the left who understands that appears to be Barack Obama. I’m quite pleased by that, even though I still do not like his politics. But his sudden disavowal of the Koz Kidz and their poo-flinging still rings hollow. Whether he likes it or not, he climbed in with them – he still owns their behavior. If he’s smart, he’ll publicly bash them for what they are doing, even more explicitly than he has. Otherwise, the backlash will swamp him.

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