It seems like the McCain campaign can dish it out, but they can’t take it. A few months after a senior McCain adviser referred to America as a “nation of whiners,” McCain and his staffers have become a campaign of whiners.
They’re a bit ruffled over all of the questions surrounding VP pick Sarah Palin. Or they’re upset that people are asking questions. It’s hard to tell. At any rate, they’re whining that the media is being unfair to Palin and too hard on her.
Now listen, just because the GOP has claimed the mantle as the Family Values party and even ridiculously attacked fictional TV character Murphy Brown several years ago for having a fictional baby out of wedlock, that doesn’t give the media the right to ask whether that conflicts with the real life fact that Palin’s 17-year-old daughter is a few months away from giving birth to a real life baby out of wedlock. What is the media thinking?
Just because Palin is embroiled in a scandal where she’s being investigated for improperly trying to get an Alaska state trooper fired, her former brother-in-law who happened to be involved in a custody battle with her younger sister at the time, doesn’t mean the media should be poking their noses where they don’t belong. Come on media!
Just because some audio of a radio interview has surfaced during which Palin is heard laughing and giggling along with the host, while that host calls one of her political rivals a cancer and a bitch (by the way, the rival is a cancer survivor), doesn’t give the media a free pass to ask questions about not only her judgment, but the judgment of McCain for picking her. Darn media. Have you no sense of decency?
There’s more about Palin being unearthed almost hourly, including a video of her speaking at her church in Alaska saying the troops in Iraq are on a mission from God (sounds like what we hear from the terrorists) and that her fellow church goers need to pray to God to deliver a new pipeline to Alaska. That’s right; a pipeline.
Despite all of this, GOP hacks continue to play the same stale cards: the media’s being unfair, Palin’s critics are elitist, she has more experience because she’s led the Alaska National Guard (not even kidding about that one. GOP flacks are actually touting this), etc.
Well, I’m betting it won’t work this time. There are only so many media outlets McCain can alienate before no one covers his campaign at all, seriously anyway. I’m actually betting the McCain camp sends Palin packing before week’s end, while they still have at least Fox News on their side.
UPDATE: So they haven’t sent her packing, and as far as I can tell, that’s solely because she’s being used as a pawn to energize the evangelical base who otherwise would have stayed home on election day. Since she’s still in the race, how’s about she start answering some media questions, rather than just playing the media victim. Specifically:
Do you think the media has been unfair to you? Why?
Tell me about you and your husband’s involvement with the Alaskan Independence Party?
You said you were pleased with your daughter’s choice to keep her child. Given the fact that you oppose abortion in all cases, under your administration, women in a similar situation wouldn’t have that choice. How do you reconcile that?
What was your involvement in the attempt to fire Trooper Mike Wooten?
How would you describe your foreign policy expertise?
