“It could work for eight weeks if you’re the number two candidate, as she was last year. But even so, she got singed a lot in that campaign. You cannot sustain a campaign of platitudes and clichés over a year and a half if you’re running for the presidency.”

Ha! Really? Worked for Obama.

I, too, have avoided the Vanity Fair piece — as well as the push-back from the likes of the Weekly Standard. Frankly, that kind of “inside the campaign” score-settling bores the shit out of me.

Right. Double standard. I suspect we’ll continue to disagree on this.

For what it’s worth: I ignored the Vanity Fair piece when it came out. “No need to pile on,” I said to myself. But since the repercussions spilled out into other media — including, I note, conservative media outlets like the Weekly Standard — I don’t think my meager comments are out of bounds.

Nice try, though.

Yes, you’re allowed to comment on hot topics. Your news judgment might come to the conclusion that childish score-setting and hit-pieces in Vanity Fair are hardly worth all the trouble.

In any case, I’m not the one making Sarah Palin a big deal this week. That would be Vanity Fair, Politico and CBS News. I wouldn’t be commenting on her if she wasn’t a hot topic in the political news world. I’m allowed to comment on hot topics, right?

And Bill Ayers, not Barack Obama, was a member of the Weather Underground. Didn’t stop you from harping on those connections. Guilt by association works both ways, dude.

http://blog.infinitemonkeysblog.com/?q=node/5800

I’m guessing as a distraction.