Slime? Bring it on!

Remember how Sarah strikes terror into the hearts of the liberals, how they react with irrational fear, hatred, and bile? (here, here, here). It is almost exhausting to keep track of all the rumors and smears.

Well, it never ends, you know. A minor sideshow to the recent elections at the National Organization for Women was the rumor that “Palin Supporters” had a role in it.

Dr. Violet Socks, whom we have quoted quite often at this blog, has an excellent couple of posts up. This is a must read.  The last para of the post, and  a few quotes from comments.

#12: It’s perhaps worth stepping back and asking why Sarah Palin is such a reviled figure that the phrase “Palin supporter” is the mark of Cain. NOW itself, under the leadership of Kim Gandy, is part of the reason. NOW cooperated with the Obama campaign last year in spreading lies about Palin designed to make her seem crazily right-wing. Most of the things Palin is reviled for — the rape kit smear, the abstinence-only smear, the anti-contraception smear — are simply not true. Ironically, NOW justifies its vilification of Palin with lies that the organization itself helped spread — Posted by Violet Socks

Edgeoforever says:
Interesting about 12. It was very obvious to me that, like the Clinton smears(the racism memorandum), the Palin vilification was an Obama campaign coordinated effort. It started with Obama himself calling her a mayor and boasting that his “running his campaign” is more executive experience than her running a state, followed by “lipstick on a pig” and eventually passed on to underlings – such as NOW (Gandy acquiesced to Steven Colbert’s submission that “Sarah Palin is a dude”).

Like W’s successful smear campaign against France for opposing the Iraq war, the Palin hate also became a popular culture staple due to key players propagating the memes. Embarrassingly, NOW was one of them.

Northwest rain says:
Voting for Palin was not an easy choice for a lot of people — but given the choice of a proven MCP — with Palin we knew what we were getting. No one is perfect — The blogging boyz and girlz needed to make up lies — because that’s all they have against a politician who HAPPENS to be female.

As the days go by — I know that I made the correct choice.

Puma for Life says:
Thanks for this post; very informative. I was a Hillary supporter and then a Palin/McCain supporter; I continue to support Palin and I am pro-choice (guess that is important to say). It will take quite some time for me to trust NOW in any way after this past election year. For now, I am a member of The New Agenda, which is non-partisan and does not care if you are pro-life or pro-choice. That whole debate is old and needs to go away for women. The most important issue is economic equality; once you have that everything else will follow. Because of that, the most important action we can take is elect a woman to the presidency. I agree with Dr. Long on that. Therefore, I will work for and support Palin if she decides to make a run for it. As for NOW, who cares what they think; they don’t speak for me.

femina says:
I like the idea of inviting Palin to speak at a fund-raiser.