Defending Sarah Palin Benefits US Democracy

Defending Sarah Palin Benefits US Democracy

Last week, Joe Scarborough, a former Republican politician turned MSNBC pundit, called for Republicans to “man up” and take on Sarah Palin. Putting aside that it’s always amusing when talking heads adopt tough-guy talk, I read Joe’s article and wondered where he’d been.

After all, the list of Republicans who’d recently attacked Sarah Palin included the following: Karl Rove, Barbara Bush, and Peggy Noonan, along with a hit piece in the Weekly Standard and continued sniping from McCain insider Nicolle Wallace. When you throw in the jihad waged against her by former McCain advisers and other prominent conservatives’ longstanding utter contempt, I honestly can’t think of a Republican more regularly attacked by fellow Republicans than Sarah Palin.

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