Shame Enough to Go Around

There is still plenty of shame to go around as the leftist press and blogosphere reach deep down into the mud bucket to smear Sarah Palin through her daughter and even her daughter’s fiancé.

Shame on the New York Post and the New York Daily News and all the other papers that quoted from high school junior’s Levi Johnston’s My Space page in which he uses a vulgarity to describe himself. Is it the prurience of this little detail or the desperation of some media types to smear Sarah Palin –however indirectly through her daughter’s boyfriend—that drives this sort of “coverage?”

Shame on Representative Robert Wexler (D-Florida) for taking the rumor that Palin had supported the Pat Buchanan campaign (back in 2000 –she actually supported Steve Forbes), and elaborating on the lie by saying:

“John McCain’s decision to select a vice presidential running mate that endorsed Pat Buchanan for president in 2000 is a direct affront to all Jewish Americans. Pat Buchanan is a Nazi sympathizer *with a uniquely atrocious record on Israel …John McCain has failed his first test of leadership and judgment by selecting a running mate who has aligned herself with a leading anti-Israel voice in American politics. It is frightening that John McCain would select someone one heartbeat away from the presidency who supported a man who embodies vitriolic anti-Israel sentiments.”

It takes your breath away, doesn’t it? But there is more, so…

…Shame, doubled, on Mark Bubriski, an Obama campaign operative, who emailed the Miami Herald, among others, saying, “Palin was a supporter of [MSNBC analyst] Pat Buchanan, a right-winger or as many Jews call him: a Nazi sympathizer,”

Bubriski deserves double the shame because he not only smears Sarah Palin, but Barack Obama as well. I believe Obama when he says lay off the kids. I believe him when he reminds people his mother was only 18 when he was born. I believe him when he says he wants a new kind of politics. But loose cannon like the left bloggers and campaign “aides” like Bubriski smear Obama by belying his principles. For shame.

Shame on The New York Times, and specifically reporter Elizabeth Bumiller who claims, incorrectly, that Palin was a member for two years of the Alaska Independence Party, “which has at times sought a vote on whether the state should secede.” ABC’s chief Washington correspondent, Jake Tapper, repeated the stories. –but at least he added this: “Gail Fenumiai, director of the Alaska Division of Elections, tells ABC News that …’Gov. Sarah Palin first registered to vote in the state in May 1982 as a Republican, and she has not changed her party affiliate with the Division of Elections since that time.’”

The reason for the story, besides administering a good old fashioned sliming of the candidate, is to call into question the process by which McCain selected Palin…a major Democratic talking point.

At the rate that the militant left is slinging mud at Sarah Palin, her kids and even her kid’s boyfriend, I expect to have ample material for two to three blogs a day, as will the rest of the right-of-center blogosphere… At least until the left realizes how it is hurting, not helping, Barack Obama’s cause.

They may get a clue tonight when Fred Thompson gives his speech to the GOP convention. The topic is the sliming of Sarah Palin. I’m not going to miss it…

* Emphasis added. Buchanan denies this vehemently.