Cause and effect: Living your life without any sense of moral imperative whatsoever leads to severe character erosion. That's the best explanation I can produce for the vicious, debasing attacks from the secular leftists against Sarah Palin and her family.

If a leftist can't find any solid grounds to impugn a person's political positions, they eventually move along to personal attacks. You've experienced that if you ever argued with a liberal. You prove them wrong on the issues so they attack you on a personal level. It's always a leftist's last resort. (And, I must admit, I've been guilty of jumping right down in the mud with them lately. It's been a tough year, my patience is at an all time low.)

Here's the standard liberal tack. Just follow this plan and you can avoid actually admitting the weakness of your position on any number of subjects:

• First you defend your irrational ideas with hypotheticals: "But the world would be so much better if everyone would just ..."



• Then you move along to relativism: "Yeah, well maybe Liberal Politician X has done what you said, but what about the conservative politician who..."



• When that fails, try a little Bulverism: "Yeah, well, you only say that because..." You're white, you're male, you're a gun-nut, you're a Christian fanatic, etc, etc.



• Then you get nasty, personal and depraved. Attack people's families, tell lies, etc. That's the liberal "dumb bomb." It's a "dumb bomb," not a "smart bomb" because it dumbs down the conversation to the point that the initial subject isn't relevant anymore.

I gotta admit, I'm surprised by the way the leftists have immediately gone for the dumb-bomb with regard to Sarah Palin. They must really be worried about the effect she'll have on the general election if they're resorting to their ultimate modus operandi already.

I don't watch Hannity and Colmes very often because I think that Sean Hannity is an asshole and I don't like it when people I agree with make everyone who believes what I believe look bad. I've always kinda liked Alan Colmes, though. He's the liberal on the show, the Yin to Sean Hannity's Yang, and I'd often thought him to be disarming and charmingly self-deprecating. So I was sickened and disgusted to see that he'd implied at his blog that Sarah Palin is at fault for her youngest child having Down Syndrome:

Colmes has since tucked his tail and retreated. He's trying as hard as he can to dig out from the avalanche of criticism that he invited with such a shameful, repulsive implication. He's already deleted the post, in fact. But you can click my graphic above to see a slightly larger screen-grab of the post in question ... and you can click here to read Alan's original post in the Google cache. I was glad to see that so many of Alan's readers called him out on his terrible taste.

You probably saw the news stories today about the pregnancy of Sarah Palin's teenage daughter. And you may have gotten the sense, as I did, that turning that situation into political cannon fodder would be beneath just about anyone. Not so.

Now, I have to give Obama credit. Even a guy who thinks that newborns should be killed to protect Roe V. Wade says that his media supporters should leave the Palins alone. But come on. Does Obama really expect simple human decency from the kind of people who make up his base?

After all, we're talking about the kind of conspiracy-crazy nutroots who can't decide of Sarah Palin neglected her child in the womb or if her youngest child isn't really even hers.

We're talking about people who post ads on Craig's List hoping to track down photos of a scantily clad Sarah Palin to use as political weapons.

These are people who post a video on YouTube and allege that it depicts Todd Palin trashing his wife behind her back when he found out that she'd been elected Mayor of Wasilla, Alaska.

That video, by the way, is offered with a straight face. It's not supposed to be a parody, it's supposed to be real.

Meanwhile, conservatives continue to go after Barack Obama because of his legislative voting record and his public statements. Hell, I don't know. Maybe we're just totally out of the loop.

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