The Democratic Party (see Will Rogers) is famous for its disorganization, much less “The Left”.

My answer, though, is that in the Age Of Blogs, there’s a lot of stuff being counted as “political commentary” that used be “bitching at the bar with your pals”, including a lot of junior-high-school level name-calling.

Sarah Palin, I think, has yanked some of that stuff up out of blogs and put in in the mouth of a national figure with 50 cameras pointed at her as she talks.

I mean, come on, “Death Panels”?

The majority of people hear a whopper like that and just roll their eyes and don’t bother to reply, any more than they would reply to a junior-high-schooler taunt (or Ann Coulter). But a few people are just so outraged at the sheer effrontery of telling such an insulting lie, they just have to yell back – and in-kind, with more juvenile insults.

Here’s your “why bash Palin” homework: stroll down the street and loudly call random passers-by “Child Molesters”. Nine of ten will give you a funny look and a wide berth. The tenth will probably explode with loud (and ridiculous) insults in return. Multiply by half the politically-engaged 100 million of the US population and you have the people yelling at Palin.

I think that everybody on the Left now has gotten over Ann Coulter: realized that she only makes money when people fall for her say-something-outrageous act every time she has a book out. You hardly hear Coulter-bashing any more. Palin slipped past their tune-out filter because it’s harder to ignore a candidate with a candidate’s coverage; and she still has some leftover juice from that. But I suspect the book tour is the last of it.

Since she has no prayer at the Presidency and seems uninterested in the Senate, House or her Governorship, her political career is over. Once she settles in with her Fox show, she’ll just be another Ann and the “bashers” will go back to ignoring her, since only the converted will be seeing the show.

Now I’ve truly heard it all…

Besides, she’s easy on the eyes, and is entertaining as hell to listen to – answering such tough probing questions as “Which newspapers do you read?” What a “gotcha” that one was!

Because it’s a blog and you asked the question?

Because people have opinions?

Are you attempting to deduce something out of the 10-12 respondents? Sample size, too small. Loaded question on blog.

I don’t think you can really deduce much from this Mr. Wilson.

Former Governor Palin, please, PLEASE don’t throw us in the briar patch…uh, I mean…don’t run for president. We’re so scared.

Palin is very good being divisive and she is using her femininity as a tool.

I think it has everything to do with the fact that she has proven thus far that she can provoke a crowd of the “low hanging” fruit in this country into an uproar with just a few words. And we all know what happens when you can move the masses.

I’m not afraid of her. She’s a train wreck.

But i am sure career politicians are afraid of her, on either side of the spectrum.

Who on the left is pretending to be afraid? Maybe a year ago when there was actually the smallest chance she might actually be elected to be one heart beat after the oldest first term president in history some might have been worried, but now? The woman is a joke, she does not have a serious thought in her head and can hardly string the words together to make a coherent sentence. No, no one I know is afraid, or even pretending to be afraid.