I obviously don't know how this will play out, but i would think that to some extent McCain and Palin's direct assault on the media for its treatment of Palin (which seems so unjustified considering the importance of the issue) could actually backfire. Rather than backing off, could this actually instigate the media to do even further digging as a means to justify their behavior?

Not to mention it has been the McCain-Palin campaign that has dragged out the story of her daughter, mentioning it at every possibility. Obama said early on that this was off limits, yet McCain-Palin kept bringing it up. Now who is it that is making her family into an issue?

If she wants to step into the big leagues, she better be ready to handle anything that comes at her. That means even the tabloid stuff, the "what a woman should be doing" stuff.

Don't hide behind sexism if you want to be considered an equal; that just tells me that she really CAN'T handle it.

Isn't that the game plan though? McCain plays the POW card. Palin plays the sexist card.

Plus how could Biden go after a mother of a new born.

The Republican party is now the pity party.

http://townhall.com/funnies/2008/09/03/7

Bring the media on! It backfires alright goldstein, but not at Gov Palin! Where is the investigation of Obama...will it ever come? Let's see, Gov Palin's husband's DUI when he was 22 is more of a story than Obama's association with William Ayers, etc. Give me a damned break.

Where is the investigation of Obama...will it ever come?

LOL! What rock have YOU been under?

You mean the lawsuits? A few of those currently.

A website that anyone can make up and with no viability.

Anyone can make a web site, but the lawsuits are real.

I could open a lawsuit against you today if I wanted. The lawsuit would be real, the wrong would not be.

kmcolo, I agree with you. Just clarifying that the lawsuit actually existed.