Melanie Phillips: “Stasi Tactics From Camp Obama”
Melanie Phillips: “Apparently Camp Obama has parachuted dozens of operatives into Alaska to find the skeletons in the Palin closet that it just KNOWS must exist. UNABLE TO PROCESS THE FACT THAT THE LEFT MIGHT NOT COME INTO ITS RIGHTFUL INHERITANCE OF POWER, WHICH AS WE ALL KNOW IS THE NATURAL ORDER OF THE UNIVERSE, IT IS BEHAVING LIKE AN AMERICAN STASI.”
“And the more it behaves in this grotesque manner, the more counter-productive it all is. Palin is a kind of barium meal for the US body politic: as she is ingested deeper into the system, THE NASTINESS AND SHEER MALEVOLENCE OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ITS BULLYING CHEERLEADERS IN THE MEDIA ARE BEING SICKENINGLY ILLUMINATED ALL AROUND HER. As a result, the media and the Democrats are merely doing untold damage to themselves, particularly since the blogosphere is shredding the smears being hurled at Palin as fast as they are being produced.”
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“… the true nightmare [of the left] is that if ‘the right’ turns out to be actually right on anything and the left to be wrong, by accepting this fact the left-winger will by his own definition turn into an evil right-winger. His entire moral and political identity will crumble and he will grow horns and a tail. So to prevent any possibility of this catastrophe occurring, the opponent has to be eliminated.”
“That is what is being done to Sarah Palin. That is why her interview is at this very moment being misreported and distorted even though millions of people watched and heard it. That is why she is being attacked with a fresh smear every second minute. THAT IS WHY HER ENTIRE FAMILY IS BEING TURNED OVER WHILE THE MEDIA IS TOTALLY SILENT ON THE GENUINELY DISTURBING QUESTIONS ABOUT OBAMA’S CONNECTIONS AND VIEWS. THIS IS FAST BECOMING AN ELECTION ABOUT THE GROSS ABUSE OF POWER. MCCAIN SHOULD TAKE THIS ISSUE AND RUN WITH IT AS LOUDLY AND AS FURIOUSLY AS HE CAN.” — Melanie Phillips.