Would you be willing to include her apologists on the list of those who are held to account, if things do not turn out as you seem to think they will?

Palin actively pursued the running mate role. She wanted the spotlight shining on her. Sunshine tends to kill the things which thrive in the darkness and Palin is no different. Hillary Clinton is different. The more the sun shined on her, the better she looked and the more the wingnuts worried. Hillary is competent and deserving. Palin has what some consider better appearance of sex appeal and that is it. No more. She has performed a service for the country. Women have a decision to make. There is the Barbie way to success and then there is the Hillary way. I will encourage my daughters to choose Clinton.

Cindy, where do you get your news?  Palin did not actively pursue the running mate role—-according to John McCain, Palin, and the general news media, it came “out of the blue” to SP.  Hillary IS competent and deserving.  Brilliant woman.  However, Palin was truly attacked in a barbaric way rarely if ever witnessed in politics (and yes, that IS saying a lot).  When Hillary’s daughter was attacked for being ugly, then again when Hillary was accused of pimping Chelsea, the world…Republicans, Democrats, Independents…howled for reprimands and firings.  And it stopped, which was good, because such behavior is wrong, classless, and tactless.  Palin’s family, however, was mocked far beyond Chelsea.  Trig was made fun of for being Down’s, which is the most vile criticism ever.  As a Special Education teacher and Special Olympics team leader, this seemed to me to be a new low. Bristol was called every name in the book for getting pregnant…when the same politicos saw nothing at all wrong with Chelsea sleeping with her boyfriend under Hillary’s nose without the benefit of marriage.  I think Chelsea’s treatment was the correct one, it IS none of our business what she does nor with whom she sleeps.  Same with John Kerry’s children.  Or Ted Kennedy’s. 
Please don’t let your dislike of Palin cloud your judgement of what is acceptable civil discourse in politics.  Repeated FALSE accusations in addition to repeated ridicule of children is just wrong on every side of the aisle.  We’ve got to stand together on this one….because the pendulum doesn’t just swing in one direction.  Leave the families out of it.

Sarah Palin quit for a good reason. Once she’s president, the “Department of Law” will protect her from all legal problems that might rear their ugly heads.

I read about this in my favorite news publications: all of them.

Get back to me when someone calls Palin a murderer for months on end.  Palin hasn’t seen one tenth of what Hillary has had to endure for 18 years.

Patrick Hynes must not have watched all the FOX coverage.  Two commentators Friday evening in a lengthy segment after FOX re-broadcast the entire speech speculated about coming scandal.  One of them compared the Palin story with Sanford.  The commentator said she had the same feeling watching   both governors as of “another shoe about to drop.”  This on-air speculation was arguably more damaging to Palin than Begala’s comments in print.

Oh yes, let’s hold people who openly speculate to account. What a monstrous crime that is!

Moron.

As for Begala’s comment, you offer no rebuttal, no reason to think that Palin isn’t as abnormal, alarming, unstable, noteworthy, and unpredictable as he suggests. As for Clinton, he got a blow job and lied about it, but he notably did not build a career on hypocrisy about “family values”.

Palin’s family, however, was mocked far beyond Chelsea.  Trig was made fun of for being Down’s, which is the most vile criticism ever.  As a Special Education teacher and Special Olympics team leader, this seemed to me to be a new low. Bristol was called every name in the book for getting pregnant…Tuxedo Shoes

Sorry, Schmucksedo, but no one ever made fun of Trig. Or “criticized” him. No one had the abominable taste to refer to him as “being Down’s” either, except you.

You can repeat a lie a million times and it still won’t be true.

Get back to me when someone calls Palin a murderer for months on end.  Palin hasn’t seen one tenth of what Hillary has had to endure for 18 years.
Posted by Ralph Kramden on 07/07 at 02:56 PM

That’s only because Palin has only been on the limelight for less than a year. At least some GOPers came to Hillary’s defense when the media went after her daughter. In Palin’s case, even her own party has failed to condemn such abhorrent behavior…

For all the scrutiny and criticism being heaped on Palin’s critics, there is very little recognition in the media of the phenomenon of Palin-mania.  Specifically, I refer to the tendency to over-analyze and critique the intentions of any person, public or private, who mocks or criticizes Palin’s poor choice of words, ineloquence, simple-minded proclamations, or any number of other well-deserved targets of public ridicule.

There is some unspoken assumption that the thoughts and intentions of Palin critics are “known,” and they are indisputably mean-spirited and malicious.

There is very little analysis in these same circles of the mind-set or intentions of Palin supporters.  What motivates anyone, for example, to make excuses and gross rationalizations for Palin’s rambling, incoherent speeches?  What type of person in their right mind looks for signs of intelligent discourse in a one-sided, no-questions-allowed “press conference.”

Palin dug her own grave by submitting to interviews that by every rational person’s assessment were “soft ball” and kind (Katie Couric), but where Palin was unable to string together the most basic of intelligible responses to fair questions.

Answering “What newspapers do you read?” requires nowhere near the political acumen as say, “Where do you stand on the current Middle East crisis?”

Looking for a liberal-biased “boogeyman” in the Palin self-made fiasco is disingenuous and transparent. She has not been unfairly treated, except by her supporters.