In her wayward, free-associatin' style Palin has bumbled into what I think might be quite a significant error by referring to "pro-America areas" of the nation. Though I think - to be generous - she was attempting to reprise her praise of small-town America rather than be overtly divisive, her clumsy expression has handed something of a gift to the Obama campaign. It couldn't play better into Obama's theme of unity/one nation. I can see him using this on the stump: "Our opponents would slice and dice us into pro-American areas and anti-Americans areas. I say we are all pro-American in this great nation, and it's time to stop the politics of division."
Added to a McCain adviser's desperate attempt to mark off "real Virginia" from Democrat Virginia, and one or two other things like this crazylady rant and you have quite a potent line of attack for the Obama campaign, handed to them by their opponents.
Well, it may be that Gov. Palin mis-spoke on this occasion, but if any verbal slip was Freudian, this was it. The division of America into pro- and anti- regions is PRECISELY how she and her dishonorable ilk view the country.
Posted by: peter | October 20, 2008 at 08:44 PM