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Thursday, September 18, 2008
Hacking Palin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Ever since John McCain picked Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, the left has been wild with rage and frustration. The woman simply drives them up the wall. The old guy, they had measured: Run against him as a Bush clone, goad him into over-reacting, prompting a display of ill temper, and count on a few senior moments to win Barack Obama the coronation they are convinced he deserves.
With Palin, they’re grasping for the stuff — the material, the appeal, the line of attack — to bring her down. Dig in. The dirt-diggers are out in full force. Hackers broke into the Yahoo! e-mail account used for official business and distributed on the Internet personal messages — nothing consequential,but personal — that they stole from it.
“This is a shocking invasion of the governor’s privacy and a violation of law,” the McCain campaign responded in a written statement. “The matter has been turned over to the appropriate authorities and we hope that anyone in possession of these e-mails will destroy them.”
The spin from this is not that sleazy political operatives are so unnerved by the prospect that Palin lit a fire under Republicans and is drawing more women and Independents to McCain that they’re willing to break the law in digging for dirt. Oddly enough, the spin is that — as the Associated Press reports — “the disclosure Wednesday raises new questions about the propriety of the Palin administration’s use of nongovernment e-mail accounts to conduct state business.”
If Palin survives the frantic efforts to trash her, she’ll clearly be tough enough to be a heartbeat away from the Oval Office. The Left really is desperate to break this woman.
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