I am less worried about Sarah Palin than I am the collective response to her by the media and the blogosphere.
The identity of Trig's mother. Bristol's pregnancy. The quality of her parenting. Troopergate. Earmarks. Oil industry ties. Her right wing socal views. The AIP. Her inexperience. An alleged affair.
Some lines of attack are more legit than others, but the problem is that there are way too many of them for any of them to stick to the low-information public.
Moreover, this kitchen sink "strategy" is only making it easier for her to paint herself as persecuted woman. If the low-info public buys into the crap narrative of her victimhood, they will put their fingers in their ears and say "la la la la, I can't hear you" when anybody raises a justifyable criticism of her.
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