The problem with attacking Palin is that all of her faults are muddied. The problem is that those issues are all muddied. She tried to sell her government plane on ebay, but she ultimately didn’t. Maybe she fired somebody for improper reasons, but it’s kind of a he said she said, ad the trooper was a bad trooper. Maybe she had an affair, maybe she didn’t. She was for the bridge to nowhere, but then she was against it. She was a maverick taking on her party, but she was also cozy with its old boys network. She’s against wasteful spending, but she’s for earmarks when they go to Alaska.
These fights and discussions come out muddled.
The Obama campaign should focus on Palin’s current policy positions.
The flip flopper attacks work on people who also have an inauthentic persona i.e. Kerry and Romney. I don’t think it’s going to work on Palin (although it does work somewhat on McCain.
I don’t think that attacking the change in her views is going to be that helpful. They should focus on attacking her current policy positions, and only the policy issues.
There are many troubling issues, but the one that stopped conversation at the last house party I was at was that Palin opposes abortions in cases of incest and rape.
Brought the room to a standstill.
Most people have a vague sense of her anti-abortion stance, but don’t know that she OPPOSES ABORTION IN CASES OF RAPE AND INCEST.
For example, if her husband raped her daughter, she would support (in fact for all intensive purposes require) her daughter to keep the baby. That’s for real.
That would change the view of 50% of the independents supporting her.
