Liberals dumbstruck as Palin goes to bat

Howard Winters, North Las Vegas

Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008 | 2:03 a.m.

Jon Ralston, in his Friday column about Sarah Palin, wrote: “I once thought, growing up in snowy Buffalo (it’s no Wasilla), that a good education and hard work were the ticket to success.” Mr. Ralston, however, was in no position to comment as he did when he continued: “But how could my mother know that looking good on camera and reading a sneering, sarcastic speech bereft of substance were the values prized in this country?”

If this were a true statement, Ralston would himself be the daily king for he is the master of sarcasm and the king of liberal sneer.

I think most liberals are hurt, dazed and confused because their opponents have finally realized the only way to deal with the empty-suit rhetoric that has flowed nonstop for the past year from a completely partisan pit bull is to get in the trenches with it and, if necessary, put “lipstick on their partisan pit bull” and expose the fraud: “The senator has no clothes!”

Speaking of liberal pit bulls, isn’t it always easy to put a spin on everything? Does anyone think for a moment that Gov. Palin would have escaped scathing rebuke had she chosen to keep her special-needs child and pregnant teen as private matters, where they belong? Absolutely not; she would have been painted as a scandalous, immoral wench trying to deceive the American public!

Because she shared everything, the liberal pit bulls can claim only that she is using her family as “props.” Sen. Barack Obama appeared with his wife and kids on national TV just the week before. How the tide turns when it comes to the use of “props.” It all depends on who’s using them!

The months that follow will be interesting. Perhaps now that we have the “fairy princess” (or, as she was labeled in Ralston’s column, the pit bull with lipstick) to expose and counter the empty rhetoric, we can focus on the issues and what is truly best for the American people.