Well, Karl Rove raised to a new height the politics of personal destruction (Swift-boating, anyone?)That's interesting, because it is the most common tactic of the left to attack people personally, rather than actually respond to any ideas they might have(right out of Saul Alinsky).
Palin, like any political figure, particularly an unknown one running for vice president, was going to be held up to scrutiny. The fact that she failed so abjectly at demonstrating the knowledge and intellectual capacity is laid at her door, not at those mean, nasty liberals.
She should have been able to hold her own with those people, Hal. Obama could hold his own with Bill O'Reilly and other people he talked with on the right during the campaign. In fact she failed so badly that she alarmed Republicans and alienated moderates.
