missingbite
You are applyig a hopeless double standard. Sarah Palin is your heroine. Fine. She is kind of close to that for me, too. However, during the campaign she made personal attacks on then Senator Obama when he had never attacked her personally. That’s violating YOUR standard, as articulated in your own post. Worse still, her attacks had no basis in fact, as already explained. You are even twisting what I said in your desperation to defend yourself. You want to call Mr. Ayers’ a “terrorist”, fine. In my last post, I said, “Even assuming that it was fair to label Mr. Ayers as having been a ‘terrorist’ . . . .” The problem with Sarah Palin’s remarks against then Senator Obama is not that she labeled Mr. Ayers as a past “terrorist”, but that she suggested he was still a terrorist, even though he had led a lawful life since paying for his crimes, and, most importantly, that he was a close friend, a “pal” of then Senator Obama. The fact is that Sarah Palin had no facts which justified making a personal attack on then Senator Obama – who had never attacked her, at least at that point. From your own post, there still is no evidence which justifies making that connection. All you have to offer is speculation and a non sequitur remark about ACORN.
If you admire Sarah Palin, as I do to some extent, than you probably have conservative values, a lot of which I share. However, why don’t you try remembering one of the most important freedoms, which is the right of free expression, particularly in the political arena. That wasn’t thought up just by the men who drafted the First Amendment to the US Constitution. It goes back way farther than that. Double standards don’t work when it comes to free speech.