On 03-23-09, BOB ACKLEY said to TIM RICHARDSON:


BA>Replying to a message of TIM RICHARDSON to JOHN FITZGERALD:


TR> When Geraldine Feraro ran as Mondale's vice-president choice, there
TR> wasn't any of this spit-spewing hatred of her present, either before
TR> or after the campaign which she and Mondale lost.


TR> I seem to recall she was treated with respect and courtesy.


BA>ISTR the same.


TR> The hatred began against Palin almost immediately.

BA>That's what 20 years of hate radio has done to political discourse in this
BA>country.  That plus the anonymity of posting on blogs and web sites,
BA>people can and do say things via computer that they would not say in an
BA>ordinary conversation - especially an ordinary conversation (or debate)
BA>with a person being talked about.


The democrat `dirt-digging' squad got busy on Palin almost before her
acceptance speech was finished. It wasn't more than a day or so before stuff
started being publically nosed about:


The child wasn't hers it was her daughters, and she was just covering for her;


She'd had an affair with some friend of her husband;


Her daughter was pregnant and wasn't married; (which, by the way, was true,
but none of anyone's business, and certainly not a political issue.)


And on and on and on.


If one of Hussein Obama's daughters been pregnant and unmarried, not one word
would have been uttered about it.


Palin didn't deserve the filth that came her way for no other reason than she
was running on the republican ticket.


Until this last presidential campaign, I'd never even heard the name `Palin',
didn't know Alaska had a woman governor, and I strongly suspect a large part
of the voting public outside Alaska didn't either.


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