Sarah Palin on Barack Obama and Bill Ayers today:
This pattern raises serious questions about Senator Obama’s judgment. It raises serious questions about his truthfulness. But there is no question about his ambition.
Indeed. Because you too would start your decades-long conspiracy to steal the Presidency in the home of an “unrepentent terrorist”. That’s a sensible ambition! Who could possibly fail to see that? Doesn’t Obama’s association – no more than that – with Ayers undermine the “he’s a secret terrorist-sympathiser” narrative? Or have we, I suppose, now reached the point where the GOP skips the “secret” bit and just calls Obama a terrorist who’s so cunning he hides his terrorism in plain sight?
There’s a bigger problem here. Even if this kind of tactic works an McCain pulls off an improbable victory, the manner of his triumph will poison his victory.
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