A Christian Liberal is NOT an oxymoron.

Posted by XT on October 8th, 2008 in Campaign News

QueenofSpain takes Sarah Palin to task for her hate-mongering:

This game you’re playing to win…it’s dangerous. In fact, it’s beyond dangerous. Your lies and your smears and your attempt to insight riots and zealots and extremists is irresponsible and disgusting.

I understand that the race is close – for another week or so. Close races raise the stakes. When that closeness evaporates, it breeds desperation. Desperation breeds all sorts of nasty things. So I expect Palin and McCain will continue their attacks on Barack Obama, and it doesn’t matter how tangentially they are connected to the issues of this campaign. It’s scorched earth politics, boys and girls, and if we can’t win, we can make winning not worth your while.

It’s a dangerous game. Because there is a limit on free speech. When angry speech leads to mob behavior, the speaker bears the onus of dialing back the anger. Palin may not be responsible for the stupid and threatening remarks made by a supporter, but she is responsible for building a campaign where such attitudes flourish. The left is no stranger to such “Kill them!” attitudes, but, in general, such things are quickly denounced and squashed. At least, that’s been my experience.

The problem for Sarah Palin is that her house of cards back in Alaska is being knocked down. Charging the state a per diem to effectively work from home, not claiming travel expenses for her family as taxable income, obfuscating and stalling an abuse of power investigation…these are not necessarily going to go away if she goes back home a loser. If she goes back as VP, though, she just might use some federal influence to close some embarassing closet doors.

Palin accused Joe Biden running a campaign that was backwards-looking. But she is running a campaign based on nothing but destruction. All things equal, I think the former is preferable.

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