What's the latest leftist smear tactic against Sarah Palin?

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The Left's latest grand scheme to try to take out Sarah Palin? In a reach that defies the imagination of more stable minds, the rabid moonbats are attempting to associate her with the guy they were all gushing over just a year ago. Yes, they would have normal folks believe that Sarah Palin is the same as their former idol John Edwards. Here are excerpts from Peter Collier's report:

In the New York Times Timothy Egan sees them as a pair of ethically similar “grifters” using populism to con the American voter–“playing to outrage while taking care of themselves.”

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The comparison between the pair is asymmetrical and tendentious. Egan doesn’t consider Edwards’ banality of evil—notably the lying treachery committed against wife and family, and friends and supporters. But while Palin’s failings, notably her “incoherence” and her lack of response to Glenn Beck when he asked about her favorite founding father, are not in any way equivalent to Edwards’ evil, they are more fully explored. It’s clear by the end of his piece that Egan isn’t really comparing the two at all, but using Edwards’ nastiness to make Palin seem sleazy by association.

Andrew Sullivan posted a nuttier but more interesting piece on Palin and Edwards on his blog on Thursday titled “My John Edwards Failure.”

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The bottom line is that he made a mistake “in making an assumption of a baseline of decency in public officials” and won’t do it again. Of course this assumption never did apply to Palin whom Sullivan has been lighting up—especially on the circumstances of Trig’s birth–during all those months when he was studiously ignoring Edwards.

The comparisons are liberally ludicrous. Sarah Palin has never been an ambulance-chasing lawyer, and she never suggested that fetal stem cells would help the late Christopher Reeve get up out of his wheelchair and walk. And Sarah Palin never "channeled" a dead baby, as Edwards did in a courtroom during one of his trials.

Also, perhaps if Sully's ruined brain wasn't so soaked with THC he would realize that Sarah Palin is a private citizen and hasn't been a public official since July. We suspect that Egan and Sully are scoring the dope they're smoking from the same source.

- JP