The Palin Factor

Is she a game changer? For McCain, it has given his campaign a new verve. The right wing is all fired up. For Obama, it has become trickier. How do you handle a feisty woman who is on your tail and you don’t want to alienate the sisterhood? This is no time for scratching your head, brother--you either get it right or you will be rising for her from the Senate floor before you know it and wished you had done something about her calling you a mere "community organizer."

She learned well from Hillary. When the media is rightly doing their job of probing and disseminating information, accuse it of gender bias. That often works for the cowardly ones, but I like it when one female journalist declared that the media has an obligation to find out more about this woman who could potentially be the president of the US of A. She has been thrust on the national scene and, within sixty days we have to make a choice based on what. I say: go media—dig and dig.

And then this family thing; is it fair play or no-go area? Well, her beautiful family and her idea of family values are the ones being touted. Since that is the case, don’t we have an obligation to know more? So, Todd, beware the media hounds are coming.

And then Hillary, Hillary, Hillary, the ever calculating opportunistic political animal. She is not going to be anybody’s attack dog on Palin—so she says. What is your use then, Hillary? She is probably tickling all over with the prospect of competing against her in 2012.