OregonLive - The GOP Protecting Palin From Interviews Is A Sign Of Chivalry!

[Median Democrat]

Who knew? We all thought that the McCain's campaign's aggressive attacks on the press, and refusal to allow access to Palin was paternalistic and chauvanistic. However, I guess this can actually be spun as a good thing. It is just good old fashioned chivalry:

In GOP strategy, chivalry riding to the rescue

http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/david_sarasohn/index.ssf/2008/09/in_gop_strategy_chivalry_ridin.html

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If I have this schedule figured rightly, sometime next week John McCain will challenge Barack Obama to a duel over Sarah Palin.

Someone - probably not even Obama, maybe just one of those annoying reporters who are being kept away from Palin like polar bears from a baby musk ox -- will ask about her international experience and opinion, and McCain will throw back his velvet cape and cry, "Have a care, sir!"


Or somebody will ask about Palin's new found opposition to earmarked spending, after her time as governor of Alaska showed her to have a greater taste for earmarks than Mike Tyson, and McCain will accuse him of bandying a lady's name.

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Now, the Republican campaign is considering having its two candidates appear together throughout the next two months, as McCain and Palin evolve from a presidential ticket into a co-dependent relationship: He needs her to draw crowds, she needs him to keep people from asking her questions.

And both of them need to keep the focus away from the rising unemployment rate, the record federal deficit and the tick-ticking sound coming from Wall Street and the health care system.

The new ticket's theme isn't "Change;" it's "Change the Subject."

Of course, anyone who suggests that might find himself challenged to a duel.

Lipstick and pigs, at 20 paces.

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[seabeyond]

1. and when pres who protect her from big bad world leaders. can they push woman movement BACK

any further.

[ladjf]

2. No. It's a sign of "Bull Chivalry".

[Imagevision]

3. McCain camp paranoid over allowing Palin do a Meet The Press gig

justifiably so!

[Metta]

4. Another lie. They're afraid she'd tell more lies and show how deep her ignorance and uncaring are.

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