As the public vetting (primarily by the blogs and new media, some what so from the TradMed), we start to get a true picture and view of Sarah Palin, both as a person and her political views.
During her acceptance speech, she quoted Westbrook Pegler, someone who spoke vile and evil thoughts about many leaders and politicians of the United States.
Please get a running start, jump over the creek to the other side for some TRULY disturbing views Pegler had about Senator Robert F Kennedy.
Frank Rich recently discussed Pegler in his Sunday New York Times column:
Just as striking was the unnamed writer she quoted. He was identified by Thomas Frank in The Wall Street Journal as the now largely forgotten but once powerful right-wing Hearst columnist Westbrook Pegler.
Palin, who lies with ease about her own record, misrepresented Pegler’s too. He decreed America was "done for" after Truman won a full term in 1948. For his part, Truman regarded the columnist as a "guttersnipe," and with good reason. Pegler was a rabid Joe McCarthyite who loathed F.D.R. and Ike and tirelessly advanced the theory that American Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe ("geese," he called them) were all likely Communists.
Surely Palin knows no more about Pegler than she does about the Bush doctrine. But the people around her do, and they will be shaping a Palin presidency.
Now comes word from Robert F Kennedy Jr, (whom I had the privilege and pleasure of meeting and speaking with during the recent Democratic Convention in Denver) via a posting from him on Huffington Post and share's a quote of Pegler's about Senator Bobby Kennedy:
"some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in public premises before the snow flies."
So slick Sarah Palin is quoting a vile, right wing, anti-semitic lunatic, who was hoping for the murder (or assassination) of Robert Kennedy in her most important speech to the American people. My her "handlers" must be proud of her.
Will the Democrats in Florida and elsewhere support Mccain with this freak on HIS ticket? Will the millions of Americans who still hold the Kennedy family in such high regard dismiss Pegler's views (which are well past extreme) or hold Mccain responsible for determining Palin was the "most qualified" person to run on HIS ticket? Will the TradMed look into and report who AND what is supporting Palin in her bid to succeed Mccain?
Pegler is was garbage that deserves to rot in a landfill of animal excrement.