Lunatic politics from angry left in Palin panic

Here's a bio of Sarah "Barracuda" Palin they didn't have time for last night at the GOP convention.

Sarah Palin defended herself quite well when she spoke last night at the GOP Convention, but after listening to a week of unhinged lunacy from the left about her, her infant son, her teen daughter and her husband, as the line goes: “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!”

Obama smugly announced family members are “off limits” to campaign politics, but it certainly appears to be a “Do as I say, not as I do” line because all this lunatic talk is certainly coming from Obama supporters and I strongly suspect it’s being secretly fed by the Obama campaign.

Bill Kristol explained why the angry left is so unhinged on Fox News: Sarah Palin has them in a panic because she threatens Obama.

And the angry left has a very good reason to be in a panic. Palin is a strong woman leader who can appeal to those 18 million Hillary voters that Obama decided would have nowhere to go but to him when he passed on making Hillary his VP choice. Surprise, surprise up steps Sarah Palin.

But what’s chapping my behind is not the criticism of Palin. She’s a candidate and she’s fair game. But since when did it become politics to turn her infant son into a political football? Since when is a teenage daughter’s pregnancy a political football? Since when did a candidate’s husband who is not a politician become a political football? If her husband was named Bill, maybe so. But Todd Palin’s not a politician, he’s just a husband.

This is not politics. This is lunatics. This is McCarthyism, to throw out a favorite blast from the lefties. And the same line that ended the McCarthy era fits well here for the lunatic left, blasting a baby, a pregnant teenage daughter and their father, too: “Do you have no shame? None at all?”

Juan Williams of NPR defended these lunatics on Fox News, citing Sarah Palin’s supposed “hypocrisy.” Just how is it hypocrisy for a mother to love her daughter and support her when she’s pregnant? Mora Liason of NPR, also on the Fox News panel, gently but firmly corrected Williams about Palin and warned Democrats who gang up on her can expect to face a backlash from the voters for their hypocrisy.

Now that the voters have heard from Sarah herself, I say "Let the backlash begin!"

J.R. Dunn at American Thinker sums up this scurrilous media trashing of Palin’s pregnant daughter quite well.

For the past five days we have been witness to the most odious media campaign in the history of the Republic. The entire might of the legacy media -- still considerable, even in its decline -- has been focused on the degradation of a vulnerable seventeen-year-old girl for the purpose of getting at her mother. This exercise outdoes everything turned against Ronald Reagan, George W. Bush, Richard Cheney, Karl Rove, and even Richard Nixon. Only in a political culture hurtling into the abyss would such an effort not be recognized and condemned for what it is.

Patrick J. Casey cites chapter and verse to document exactly how the mainstream media and the leftwingnuts are working together to try to destroy Palin. It's worth a read for the full magilla.

Make no mistake about it; the media and the Dems are out to destroy Palin and her family by any means necessary.

The following quote from Yuval Levin at the Corner that pretty much sums up what conservatives have been thinking this week:

I have always tended to think that conservative complaints about the media are a little exaggerated. There are occasionally obvious instances of bias and clear examples of a double standard, but most reporters don’t want to fall into those and some conservatives are surely too sensitive to them. But this week has changed my view. I have never seen, and I admit that I could never have imagined, such shameful, out-of-control, frenzied, angry, condescending, and pathetic journalistic malpractice. The ignorant assault on Palin’s accomplishments and experience, the breathless careless airing of deranged rumors about her private life, the staggeringly indecent mistreatment of her teenage daughter in a difficult time, the ill-informed piling on about the vetting process, the self-intensifying circle of tisking nodding heads utterly detached from a straightforward political event, have been amazing and eye-opening.