Sarah Palin worked her heart out. She energized tens of thousands
to come out who would have otherwise stayed home. She touched
countless families. I didn't agree with everything she said on
the campaign trail. But two fundamental conservative stands she
took mattered greatly to me: 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 infectious optimism
that defied the shameless, bottomless attempts by elites in both
parties to bring her and her family down.
Shame on the smearers who don't have the balls to show their
faces.
What they're talking about is the sliming in
Newsweek and elsewhere, including Fox News:
Let me make a small point about the McCain campaign's hamhanded
mishandling of Palin's press relations. Michelle Malkin has been
a huge advocate and defender of Sarah Palin. Between Michelle's
own site and her Hot Air video
blog, Malkin Inc. gets 1.5 million online visitors daily, to
say nothing of Malkin's Fox News connection. Michelle and her Hot
Air crew were in St. Paul for the Republican convention. Did
anybody at Team Maverick think, "Hey, why don't we hook up Malkin
with an exclusive one-on-one with Palin? That would be buzzworthy
-- an innovative use of New Media!" No, apparently that
blindingly obvious idea never crossed their feeble little minds.
That such a bunch of clueless campaign hacks would then go out
and trash Palin behind her back . . . well, I can't blame Ace for
cussing a blue streak.
UPDATE: Michelle Malkin e-mails to clarify:
I was in Denver for the DNC, but not at the RNC. Ed Morrissey
was there for Hot Air, though.
Allah and I both requested an interview with Palin for Hot Air.
They were somehow never able to make it happen...
