Hillary - Palin's Greatest Ally

If what's being reported is true - that Hillary is not going to talk about Palin on the campaign trail, but focus all of her attacks on McCain - then Hillary might as well go on the stump for the Republican ticket. Hillary is the one person who can totally shut down Palin, respond to her point by point, issue by issue, in a way that will be covered extensively by the national media. Sebelious offered a devastating, and extensive, critique of Palin, but that was alrgely overlooked by the mainstream press. If Hillary focused her attack skills on Palin(to the same degree she focused them on her Democratic opponents during the primaries) the effect would be devastating.

This is the one thing Hillary can do for the Democratic Party.

And the one thing she appears unwilling to do.

Why? It makes no sense, particularly given how Palin regularly invokes Hillary's 18 million supporters as if they now belong to her by default. So why won't Hillary put Sarah in her place?

The way I see it, Hillary is still bitter about losing the nomination and would prefer to see Obama lose the election so she can run again in 4 years, probably under the slogan 'I Told You So'. So much for loyalty to the Democratic Party.

Palin will play great in small towns and with working class women. There are two potential negatives - working class white men will be turned off by her 'mouthiness'. They don't like women who are sarcastic and put you down. They will see her as the emasculating popular girl in high school who wanted nothing to do with them. And I don't think her tone, accurately described as shrill and sarcastic, will play well at all in the South, where politeness and manners are more important. McCain isn't big in the South to begin with. So this does give Obama an opening. Same with upper middle class neighborhoods. She sounds a bit like what she is, the hot cheerleader/in-group clique leader who got away with being petty and catty because she looked good and was popular.
Richard



Wonder what's the story behind Sarah's "attending 5 colleges in 6 years? And pretty undistinguished schools at that: Hawaii Pacific College (attended fall semester as a freshman), North Idaho College (2 semesters), University of Idaho (2 semesters), Matanuska-Susitna College in Alaska (1 semester), then back to University of Idaho (3 semesters and graduation).

Let's forget all the trivia, though, and start asking her some hard questions to find out things like what's her capacity for diplomacy? Can she negotiate or only demand and then fire people who don't do it her way? Does she have any grasp of the lessons of history? What are her ideas about the separation of church and state? Does she have a working knowledge of the Constitution?
Ralph