Why Must Politics Be So Hateful?

I have to say that I am amazed at the sheer amount of pure hatred that liberals in this country have towards McCain’s choice for VP, Alaska Governor Palin. The number of false stories that have been started by liberal blogs that are just passed along by media outlets without even bothering to do just basic fact checking is astounding to me. The level of negative media attention she’s gotten so far and the constant comparisons of her experience versus Obama’s experience makes me wonder if there’s a sizable group of people out there that are thinking Palin is actually running for President.

After all this, why would anyone in the future wish to run for any significant level of political office knowing that there will be people out there that will knowingly spread false and damaging stories just to destroy you as a candidate?

Is this what we want? Electing people based on who has the fewer scandals made up about them or by the way the candidates feel about the issues?

The news media is failing us in their purpose, reporting the news. The number of “reporters” I hear and see that just gives us opinions and editorials instead of just facts for us to decide for ourselves is disturbing. I wish for the days when reporters were REQUIRED to produce at least two NAMED sources before presenting a story to the public. After all, two reporters managed to do this about a bombshell story and brought down Nixon. Now all we get are made up stories with no efforts at basic fact checking for a very serious effort to prevent a woman from becoming Vice President of the United States.

All the efforts that liberals have made for the progression of women in society are in ruins simply because some wish to absolutely destroy a woman who dares not agree with them.

Very sad.

The level of discussion of remembering September 11th, or the lack thereof, within the media was interesting as well. Do we forget such things so easily?