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John McCain and
Sarah Palin
It's impossible to ascertain exactly why Sarah Palin continues to get hammered, but fair-minded Americans surely know that it is unnecessary and mean-spirited.

Can someone please explain to me why Sarah Palin is still getting trashed a week after the election? I mean, I understand the left-wing media hammered her during the campaign because they obviously favored Obama, and I also realize that scapegoating has become a national sport, but isn't enough enough with Governor Palin?

Apparently not.

The fascinating thing about the latest round of Palin-bashing is John McCain's reaction. A day after the election, Fox News political correspondent Carl Cameron reported on my TV program that some anonymous McCain staffers were frustrated because Palin didn't know much about the world. The now famous accusation is that the Governor did not even know that Africa is a continent.

Palin immediately denied it, and you would think McCain would have stopped that kind of vicious garbage in its tracks. But it took the Senator six days before he publicly stuck up for Palin. So let me ask you something. If a friend of yours was getting humiliated, would it take you six days to lend support?

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Will Palin emerge as a GOP power?
Tuesday, November 11: Karl Rove said, "Republicans are going to look at Palin, Jindal, Romney, Huckabee, and others, and they're going to ask who can help the party get off the mat. All of them have to go places and speak out on behalf of the party, so Sarah Palin has the chance to demonstrate that she has heft and gravitas."

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