Smearing Sarah Palin...From The Inside!

This is pitiful, and a sign of just how badly off the Republican party and John McCain are.  First, from Byron York:

There are a lot of things you can do when you finish a losing campaign.  You can sleep for 30 hours straight.  You can get drunk.  Your can reflect on what went wrong and why your side lost.  Or you can immediately dump every unflattering tidbit you know — or think you know — about your colleagues to the press. 

That is the route some McCain campaign staffers have decided to pursue with regard to Sarah Palin.  Within hours of McCain's loss, they were dishing on everything Palin did or didn't do, everything she did or didn't know, and why they, the staffers, bore no responsibility for anything that went wrong.

Did Palin once answer a knock on her hotel room door dressed in a bathrobe?  Get it out there!

The question here is not whether Palin was a good or a bad choice for vice president.  Reasonable people disagree on that one.  It's about the character of the McCain campaign.  There is no doubt that it included some fine people who, whatever their opinions, wouldn't be involved in this kind of behavior.  But it also, obviously, included some who would.  John McCain ran for president, to some large degree, on the character he had displayed throughout his life.  Not so for some of those around him.  What a bunch of losers.

Michelle Malkin comments:

At least all the Hollywood and Manhattan Palin-haters were willing to sign their names and put their faces on their attacks.

Let's assume the rumor-mongers are telling the truth for a moment. Who does it damn more: Sarah Palin or McCain and his vetters who green-lighted her for the vice presidential nomination? Don't need an Ivy League degree to figure that one out.

Sarah Palin worked her heart out. She energized tens of thousands to come out who would have otherwise stayed home. She touched countless families. I didn't agree with everything she said on the campaign trail. But two fundamental conservative stands she took mattered greatly to me: She vigorously defended the Second Amendment and the sanctity of life more eloquently in practice than any of the educated conservative aristocracy.

And she did it all with a tirelessness and infectious optimism that defied the shameless, bottomless attempts by elites in both parties to bring her and her family down.

Shame on the smearers who don't have the balls to show their faces.

Thank you, Sarah Palin. Thank you for stepping up the plate and serving your country.

So, what we have here is that some unknown McCain staffers are bitter at losing, and are taking out their frustrations -- true or not -- on Sarah Palin.  This is the key friction between the big government types and the conservative types.  As Rush Limbaugh likes to call them, the 'country club blue blood' Republicans are showing their true shallow and bitter stripes.  We need to get names on these people, and out them for the back-stabbers they are.

I think that part of their problem is that they know who really gave McCain a chance at winning: Sarah Palin.  They can't handle the fact that their guy couldn't even secure the base, and that Sarah Palin drew crowds several times large than McCain ever did.  Ever the picture of class, here is Palin's response:

Palin arrives in Anchorage after a long trip home from Alaska. She holds a press conference. Refuses to comment on gossip spread by unnamed sources and "small, bitter" people saying "foolish things"…on relationship with McCain: No tension. "I love him…I honor him."

Responding to a question on whether she has any "hurt feelings," Palin laughs cheerfully. "This is politics! Of course not. It's rough and tumble and you've got to have a thick skin just like I've got."

Palin expresses "disappointment in the media — don't take it personally."

I think these people spreading the smears of Palin are in big, big trouble.  Palin won almost universal praise from the Republican base, and the very same smears that the Left hurled at her only served to enhance her image and her opportunity to take the moral high ground.  To see this sort of behavior coming from McCain staffers is absolutely ridiculous, and a serious miscalculation of the base.  If this reveals how out of touch these advisers truly are, then it's no wonder they couldn't run a successful campaign.  It almost makes one wonder if they are trying to earn back a little political cred with the Dems in Washington, sort of a don't-hate-me-too-much-because-I-tried-to-beat-you thing.

And where is John McCain??  Why isn't he defending his former VP pick?

Pitiful.  And inexcusable.  Conservatives: don't put up with this garbage.  We just lost a major election, and have an opportunity to rebuild from the ground up.  Accept no moderates, accept no back-stabbers, accept none of this crap, nor the people who spew it.

I sincerely hope (and expect) we'll see more of Sarah Palin on the national spotlight in the future.  These people, on the other hand, can go away into obscurity forever.

There's my two cents.