(By the way, if you don’t understand what Chesterton said there is nothing I can do for you)

I came across this quote from the English writer, essayist and playwright in a column by Nick Cohen in the online version of the Guardian, a British newspaper. At once I realized he had hit the bulls-eye in his analysis of the Left’s visceral reaction to McCain’s picking of Sarah Palin to be his running mate. The spewing out of hate and venom was stunning. The lie that her downs syndrome baby was not hers but her daughter’s was totally breathtaking in its audacity. The Obama campaign wisely condemned it right out of the box. They understand political boomerangs. Can they control their operatives? Probably not.

I won’t go into all the loathsome, malicious, malevolent and sexist stuff that has the stink of fear all over it that has been excreted out of the rotten hate filled bowels of the Left concerning her. It is all over the Internet and readily available to anyone who wishes to access it.

Was I was surprised? Not at all. This what we have come to expect from political campaigns these days but I must say it is not new. All one has to do is look at  American politics of the early 1800′s to get a real good  idea of what political opponents are capable of. It is nearly always self-defeating. Is it going to continue? Of course, because like unthinking brutes the haters “know not what they do”. In the case of Palin they unwittingly have taken a smart, funny, capable and hardworking woman who was a relative unknown and made a folk hero out of her.

Sarah Palin is an American woman. She is not an elitist that looks down on “the masses”. She is one of us and we know her and like her. As for me I say to her, “You go girl! We love you!”