Here's a conservative columnist with the (Chicago area) Daily Herald on Monday regarding Palin:
Chuck Goudie:
Unknown Palin produces flurry of calls: 'It could be you'
http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=231672"A Hail Mary choice," was the gut reaction from Barack Obama spokesman Bill Burton.
That was an unfortunate choice of words by Mr. Burton, even as we headed into the richly cliched first weekend of college football.
Millions of American women (and men) do Hail Mary on a regular basis and I'm sure many of them resented such an analogy.
Even the deadest of the brain dead conservative pundits GOT NUTTIN'. Suggesting that 'Hail Mary' is going to offend in this case after decades of football have put the saying into the general lexicon? That's a 'Hail Mary' move itself!