Another Indication That a Politician Is Steeped in Sleaze

Is when that politician has his or her lawyers threaten to sue anyone who says anything mean about them.

Which is exactly what Palin's lawyers are doing (PDF).

Curious, that. Sarah Palin has proven that she is very capable of throwing punches, witness her "palling around with terrorists" comments during the last election and her constant insinuations that "real Americans" voted for McCain. But she is wholly incapable of taking a punch. Say something mean about her and she has her lawyers threaten to sue you.

There are terms for someone like that. The first term is "a bully." The second term is "a coward."

The strategy of her lawyers seems to as bizarre as Palin's own though processes. Issuing this letter guarantees that there will be no shortage of news stories that say things along the lines of "Palin's lawyers are threatening to sue anyone who says that Palin may be indicted by the Feds for corruption charges" or "Palin's lawyers claim that it is defamatory to say that Palin is being investigated for embezzlement."

So now, thanks to Palin's lawyers, not only will those words be linked to Palin, there may be even more reporters and investigators looking into the circumstances behind that letter. "Did Sarah Palin take graft? Our own I-Team has the story at 6 and ll." What do they think will stick in the minds of millions of people?

Sheer genius in a very Sarah Palin way.

In many ways, Sarah Palin is nothing more than George W. Bush in a skirt and heels: Same arrogant sense of self-importance, same lack of intellectual curiosity, same prideful ignorance, same inability to string three coherent sentences together, and the same absolute sense of self-righteousness. The only difference is, of course, that Palin did not have the family connections to gain legacy admissions to Andover, Yale, and the Harvard Business School.

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