In a recent addition to her blog, the lunatic-fringe Right's favorite girl, Michelle Malkin, started a "letter-to-Sarah-Palin" page for people to thank her for her contribution to the Presidential race.
A nice jesture, and a way for conservatives and wingnuts to provide supplication to Palin as she scurries back up to Alaska.
John Amato @ C&L thought the winning side should send a nice thank-you as well. After all, Palin played a huge roll in the Republicans loss and offered up more than a healthy amount of embarassment for the campaign.
In an effort to reach out across the aisle and work with Michelle Malkin, I am offering to join in on the "Send a message to Sarah Palin" that she's part of as a way to bridge the gap between our differences.
I'd like all C&L readers to send a message to Sarah Palin, thanking her for helping Barack Obama win the Presidency in such a dominant fashion. We couldn't have asked for more. She did a great job in making sure that Obama did receive a mandate by the American people to try and help heal this great nation from all the damage done to it by Conservatism and Conservatives like Michelle.
I'd personally like to thank the wonderfully insightful interview Sarah Palin did with Katie Couric that really made it clear how qualified she was to be Vice President. So go here and join me in sending a lovely message to Sarah Palin.
I think we must all begin to do what we can to help heal this country and stop all this partisan bickering.
Turns out that the Malkinites didn't think this was at all funny. As a matter of fact, they seem to think that this somehow shows that those who supported and elected Obama are "afraid".
Turns out that the finger(s) are pointed in the wrong direction.
The McCain campaign's major theme, if you can say that they even had one, was predicated on fear.
It was chocked full of fear of what a preacher might mean in a soundbite that was ripped from a broader sermon. It was rampant with allusions that Obama was somehow sympathetic to terrorist. There were words tossed around like Communist, Socialist, Anti-Isreal. It was a message that the entire American population should be afraid.
While ignorance is a scary thing to begin with, the willful ignorance of Sarah Palin, her followers, and McCain's campaign staff did amplify the "scariness". So, those claiming that people were "afraid" of Palin are only partially correct.
Sarah Palin was confronted for her ignorance, her inability, her will to be nothing more than set-dressing for McCain's campaign theatre. And right on cue, Republicans of all stripes cried "sexism", "fear", "shenanigans". They were willing to protect this ignorance despite the rampant destruction that it would surely cause. They were willing to do this out of their own, irrational, fear.
It doesn't stop with Palin.
There is still Obama, and his coming administration, to deal with. The conservative movement has only begun.
Sean Hannity has a good jump-start:
More here from Media Matters.
People like Malkin, Hannity and everyone at Fox"News", conservative bloggers, and talk-radio prattle-heads have felt such at ease with themselves the last 8 years, it will be quite interesting see how they will act and react now.
They traffic in fear. They enjoy trying to make you, your family, and your friends afraid. They are banking on your ignorance.
We, as Democrats, Progressives, Liberals, or however we might see ourselves in the broader scope of the American socio-political movement have never been afraid. We have confronted the "fear" that has been thrown at us. And we are winning. And that makes the opposition truly afraid.
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