I remember when I was a conservative and I remember reading all those right-wing books about phony sexual harassment charges, frivolous sex and racial discrimination accusations and thinking boy, the world sure has turned on the white guy. The authors of those books would use some pretty frivolous cases to support that point, that liberals had become the thought-police, that they use these convenient accusations to further their political agendas.
That was six years ago. And now look where we are: The Neo-cons are committing the same sin that they have so incessantly accused the left of committing for decades: Crying "Sexism" to benefit their own political agenda. McCain might not consider a vetting process--heck even a thorough interviewing process--essential to hiring the country's No. 2, but that doesn't mean the media has to abandon its job of informing the public. McCain screwed up big-time and his only real recourse is to recall the VP nomination. Of course that would be disastrous, even for the Original Maverick. So he returns to a common strategy: blame the media.
This pick has undercut the so-called platform of the Religious Right more defiantly and more glaringly than any ACLU challenge, any Supreme Court decision, any sinful Hollywood blockbuster.
It shows the public that the Religious Right will disavow its own message—stay-at-home motherhood is sacred (especially with a 17-year-old daughter who's about to give birth and a 3-month-old special needs child), that premarital sex is a sin (no condoms please, we don't need them cause we don't have sex), etc. It shows that they are not just willing but rabid to employ the strategies of their opponents that they despise so much.

(By the way, when I graduated from college, I interviewed for a reporter position with the Camas-Washougal Post-Record newspaper (circulation 10,000) two times. Both interviews lasted about four hours.)

Karl Rove's double standard on the importance of political experience:

From Media Matters' website

Earlier on Happening Now, Fox News contributor Karl Rove cited Palin's experience as mayor of an "admittedly ... small town" in asserting that the Obama campaign's statement was "petty, and small, and foolish":

JON SCOTT (co-anchor): Let's check in with Fox News contributor Karl Rove, the man who helped put President Bush in the White House two times. Karl, let me read you that statement again from the Obama campaign -- let me get my campaigns straight here. Let me read you part of that statement and ask you how you would try to counteract what they are saying. The Obama campaign says, "Today, John McCain put the former mayor of a town of 9,000 with zero foreign policy experience a heartbeat away from the presidency." How does the McCain campaign react to that, or respond to that, Karl?

ROVE: I think they ignore it. That is petty, and small, and foolish on the part of the Obama campaign. They're better than that. You know, look, that's like saying, "They picked a former actor to be president," or "picked a former peanut farmer who was a state senator from rural southwestern Georgia." I mean, she's the governor of Alaska. She has had executive experience. She's been a mayor, admittedly of a small town, but active in her state's affairs as chairman of an important commission. This is small. They ought to just let the stage be hers today, and not smart on the Obama campaign's part.

Yet Rove said something very different when discussing Obama's potential vice-presidential choices on the August 10 edition of CBS' Face the Nation. As purported evidence that Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine isn't "capable of being president of the United States," Rove asserted: "He [Kaine] was mayor of the 105th largest city in America. ... It's not a big town."

From the August 10 edition of CBS' Face the Nation:

BOB SCHIEFFER (host): You have said yourself in the past that Obama probably should pick a Red State governor, somebody just like Tim Kaine that we just heard just a minute ago from Virginia. Governor Kaine seems to thint that Democrats really can carry Virginia this time. Do you think --

ROVE: Yeah.

SCHIEFFER: -- that state's going to be in play?

ROVE: I think it's going to be in play, but let me clarify. I didn't say that I thought he ought to. I said that I thought he probably would pick a Red State Democrat, because I think he's going to make an intensely political choice, not a governing choice. He's going to view this through the prism of a candidate, not through the prism of president. That is to say, he's going to pick somebody that he thinks will, on the margin, help him in a state like Indiana, or Missouri, or Virginia. He's not going to be thinking big and broad about the responsibilities as president. With all due respect again to Governor Kaine, he's been a governor for three years. He's been able, but undistinguished.

I don't think people could really name a big, important thing that he's done. He was mayor of the 105th largest city in America. And again, with all due respect to Richmond, Virginia, it's smaller than Chula Vista, California; Aurora, Colorado; Mesa or Gilbert, Arizona; North Las Vegas or Henderson, Nevada. It's not a big town. So, if you were to pick Governor Kaine, it would be an intensely political choice where he said, "You know what? I'm really not first and foremost concerned with, 'Is this person capable of being president of the United States?' What I'm concerned about is 'Can he bring me the electoral votes of the state of Virginia?' "

Palin in can take it. But going after a Down's Infant child and then a 17 year old. Disgusting, no matter whether your are red or blue.

Nobody "went after" either, in any way. Straw-man argument.

"Went after.." my ass. Boring!

These right-wingers really make me laugh.......I read last night that they are going to laugh at all the Obama-Biden bumper stickers the way they laugh at the old Kerry and Gore stickers that you still see ocassionally. The only thing they don't get is that we are proud we voted for Gore and then Kerry......how proud are they that they voted for Bush! Seems to me, most of those guys took their bumper stickers off as soon as they could get in someone's face and say they won.........won what!