Could this all backfire on the media?

In some respects, the attacks have already backfired. As they blatantly dismissed her, a mediocre speech at the convention would have been lauded. Instead they set the bar so low (not my words) her fantastic speech seemed to surpass Obama (she's good, not that good).

Remember Rathergate? That was when CBS reported that Bush took off a month of flight school while people were dying in Vietnam? The story may have had some merit, but the obviously bias story that actually had forged documents took the story completely off the table. When anyone in the media tried to bring it up they were derided and scorned.

We may see a similar thing here with Sarah Palin. The media is just trying too hard to lynch the woman. It could easily backfire and if it does it will make Obama's and Biden's job much harder. Middle America hates this stuff.

If she has a good showing against Biden, regardless of what he does, she wins and they lose. She will be parsed and pounded after, but the debate will be over. You've seen her speak, anyone taking bets that she gets spanked? Not me. Biden will probably do fine, but he could go on one of his patented personal stories (he most likely will be warned at gunpoint not to do that) and blow the whole thing. The left is close to making Palin a hero. Unless there is some significant skeleton in the closet she will help carry or put pressure on nearly every swing state.

Never been an election season like this one. And I thought I would be bored by now.

The new hit job

The Atlantic, considered a very legitimate news source, has now been caught again in a blog smear job. The Weekly Standard nails them:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/09/anatomy_of_a_smear.asp

With the recognition of Woodward and Berstein waiting for any writer who is able to take down Palin or McCain, they are going to throw it all out there, hoping to be the first to find something. It is frankly eerie. As they run like savage wolves to kill her my gut tells me that this whole thing may get her (and obviously McCain) elected.

This same thing happened to Dan Quayle and Bush won 40 states. They went after the wrong guy (beat the living tar out of him though) Note:Palin is no Quayle, either. Palin may be the red flag that the media snorts after while McCain the matador watches them closely, all the while largely unscathed.

New York Times hit piece?

The NYT has an article that will probably do more to drive Evangelicals and regular folk towards, not away, from Palin and McCain. It is abundantly clear that the Times has voted and will continue to tar and feather Palin. It will build to a crescendo. As with all of us, there will be issues or perceived ones that will put her in a bad light. We all have them and they are going to Bork her (the whithering fire Justice Bork came under). They must wound her in the flyover states, so they will go after her in ways that Obama and Joe will never have to endure from them and the other left leaning media. Here she is treated like a woman neaderthal.

Read for yourself:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/06/us/politics/06church.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1220724449-fGClIk6J1CItLlpb56YgNw&oref=slogin

They are going to paint her as a religious freak (problem is that it will allow McCain to pound Obama with Reverend Wright-don't think that is dead).