On Sarah Palin and the scum of the earth

Baseball Crank has written a long post on Gov. Palin and how the leftist legacy media and radical leftwing bloggers have viciously gone after the governor and her children.

Although I disagree with Crank's conclusion about Gov. Palin's furure in politics (he subscribes to the conventional wisdom, and Sarah Palin is anything but conventional), he does hit one paragraph right out of the park:

One must attribute at least part of the vileness of these attacks, among left-wing blogs, to how very few of the leading left-wing bloggers have children of their own - were conservatives tempted to mock Obama's daughters, they would at least have to face their own daughters and sons at the end of a day of doing so. A political movement of the childless has no empathy for children. Empathy for other human beings requires human decency, and decency breeds hesitation - a hesitation the Online Left has never displayed. Were any of these people capable of shame, they would be feeling it. Instead, they have been gleefully dancing on Palin's political grave ever since. It is worth considering what the "New Politics" has looked like when applied to Sarah Palin, because it presents a cautionary tale for Republicans with families.

Disclaimer: I know Baseball Crank. Baseball Crank is a colleague of mine. Sully, you're no Baseball Crank.

- JP