If you’ve watched any of the mainstream media coverage of the campaign since the Palin pick, which we can now comfortably call D-Day, the first day that Obama’s campaign truly knew it faced defeat, then you know that they really have no idea how to cover her. Extend this truth out to Democrats at large and you’ve seen the Clinton’s kitchen sink attack strategy from the primaries hauled out on stage and then reluctantly put away without so much as a shrimp fork finding its mark in the Alaskan vixen’s hide. They just don’t know what to do.

Democrats have been programmed for so long to curry favor with females in a position of power because of the perceived (and often projected) sense of sexism that they believe America runs on. Now that there is a woman poised to take a position of real power in this country they can’t bring themselves to give her even a crumb of the respect that they throw toward any other lesser female candidate or officeholder without reservation because that might put a quick-to-widen crack in the Democratic Party’s planned November victory. Instead of exploratory stories weighing Palin’s pros and cons, I wouldn’t even dare to dream for a puff piece or two of the caliber that Obama has enjoyed for years now, we’re treated to tabloid trash about her daughter’s pregnancy and out loud pontifications as to whether a mother of five could handle the pressure of the Vice Presidency without finding her children to be guests on the Jerry Springer show by the end of her first term. We’re told that McCain had to pick her… or he will be imminently dumping her.

And by pouncing as eagerly and as cynically as they did right off the bat, the mainstream media lost the one thing they usually keep well under their thumb: the narrative. It’s a free for all on daytime cable TV. We’ve got Dems backpedaling, checkout counter mags begging people to stay, shameless hosts hiding, polls plummeting, cats and dogs living together, conspiracy theorists going back to controlled demolition, TV records being smashed, and newspapers censoring themselves.

It’s going to be a fun couple of days (I’m not going to jinx it by assuming weeks) until they get a handle on how to attack our new favorite Moose Slayer. Keep it coming. In the meantime, we’ll just sit back and let those who haven’t been paying attention yet get a good gander at what real change looks like. As much as we don’t like to acknowledge it, McCain does stand for change and bipartisanship, for better or worse, and Palin as proven herself as a force to be reckoned with. She won my vote just by confusing the hell out of the drive-by goofs.

Well, that and the whole shooting things with high-powered rifles. And the domestic oil drilling. And the fact that she didn’t get her fame through a spouse. And the family dedication bit. And the… well, you get the picture.

Oh, and lest we forget, she also managed to give a good slap to the historical value of Hillary’s entire campaign. I’d better stop before I start blubbering.

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