Sarah Palin: The Difference Between a Hockey Mom And a Pit Bull

Never let it be said that a blogger’s ego is a function of his hit rate.   While BItsblog is but small but maybe no so humble blog, I suggest to his Bitness that we promote William Kristol to the rank of honorary Swamp Stomper.   I suggest we just over look Bill association with Pinch Sultzberger.

Bill has posted this utter gem of conversation snippet, Weekly Standard:

McCain aides whose judgment I trust are impressed by Sarah Palin. One was particularly amused by this exchange: A nervous young McCain staffer took it upon himself to explain to Palin the facts of life in a national campaign, the intense scrutiny she’d be under from the media, the viciousness of the assault that she’d be facing, etc.:

Palin: “Thanks for the warning. By the way, do you know what they say the difference is between a hockey mom and a Pit Bull?”

McCain aide: “No, Governor.”

Palin: “A hockey mom wears lipstick.”

Mrs. Clinton tried to feign being a strong women by being a mean and nasty one.   I believe that Mrs. Palin is about to demonstrate that you can check your opponent into the boards while smiling at the same time.  

As to army of leftards who now claim to have discovered social values, bring ’em on.

It’s true… it must be, I saw it on the web.

The vast majority of Americans do not know that it is rumored that Sen. Joe Biden is able to keep his hair thicker than it would otherwise be thanks to a steady diet of human fetuses.

It’s true, actually. Ask any 10 of your friends, family and co-workers if they’ve heard that Joe Biden eats human fetuses as part of his diet. I guarantee no more than TWO of them will say “yes.” That’s 80%+ of Americans who’ve never heard that Joe Biden eats human fetuses.

I’m willing to admit we don’t yet have incontrovertible evidence establishing that Joe Biden eats human fetuses on a regular basis, but we also have no incontrovertible evidence establishing that Joe Biden doesn’t eat human fetuses regularly, either.

And here’s the thing; all Biden needs to do is submit pertinent medical records to disprove this.
How about it, Joe?

And why is the press giving him such a break on this stuff?

Ummm.. in case you’re curious… the moral of the story, here, is:  if you’re going to spin on pure innuendo with no fact whatsoever, don’t be too shocked if someone calls you out on it.

Sarah Palin threatens everything these people have told themselves about themselves, and there is no depth to which they will not sink to preserve it. An ultimate descent into madness would be inevitable, had they not already sunk deeply into that pit long ago with their “stolen election” fantasies and their “Bush let 9/11 happen” nightmares.

Amen and amen.

I note McQ jabing at Sullivan again… and rightly:

Check out this Sullivan post entitled “The Press is asking questions”:

In other words: doing their job. And the McCain camp is appalled:

A senior McCain campaign official said the McCain camp was appalled that these rumors had not only been spread around liberal blog sites and partisan Democrats, but also were the subject of heightened interest from mainstream news media.

Now they’ve cleared the air on this – and good for them – what harm would it do to release the medical records showing that Sarah Palin delivered Trig on April 18 in Wasilla? This is not hard: there must be an obstetrician, medical records, and data that can easily refute this rumor. It is not out of the ordinary either: candidates routinely issue medical records. So let’s have them. And then we can move on.

Andrew Sullivan has no balls. Should be an easy thing to refute – surely there’s a doctor who’s examined Andrew and can release his records.

Interesting; St Andrew the incontinent is screaming louder about this than he was about the rumor about Obama’s not being an actual citizen. After all, all Obama hadda do was produce the paperwork.

Guess the question of someone actually being qualified to be president isn’t as important as who gave birth, huh?

And yes, I place them on about the same level, but isn’t that part of the point?

And that all says NOTHING about Obama’s relationship with Ayers, wich he’s still trying to bury. Any comment, St Andrew?

NY436 outside Nundea, NY, facing west at sundown on the last day of summer ’08

As usual, drill the pic tice for the huge version.. which really looks better. Apparently, one of the problems with this new system I’m using is that pixel reductions tend to mess with the luma a bit. IN this case, it comes off just a shade too dark… but I left it alone, because I didn’t want to mess up the big photo.

• The U.S. military has handed over security control of the western province of Anbar to Iraqi forces. BBCT: McQ Well, at least the leftist nutjobs aren’t saying anything about it, being too busy trying to Derail Palin.  Apparently there’s not much as much political profit in telling us once again how Iraq was a failure.
• So, Palin’s daughter’s pregnant. So, let’s arrange a White House wedding, what say, huh? They’re already planning on getting married anyway… and raising the baby.  And by the way…. Doesn’t it strike anyone as odd that most of the complaints are from a crowd who considers proper neo-natal care to include Abortion?
• Speaking of which, the leftist nutjobs are so busy pointing fingers, they’ve forgotten to point at themselves. Clearly what we have is a case of desperation on the part of the left.. they’re throwing everything they can at Palin… and apparenly truth doesn’t matter. I’m telling you, this stuff is going to backfire, come November… and sooner, it is to be hoped. And maybe backfire among their own, too. Look at the lengths someone had to go to get the truth into these morons.
• I see Olberman has been yanked from the RNC coverage. Apparently, the foam in his mouth was getting to be more tha the producers could cover for.
• Rove still knows what’s what. Plus, he has the courage to SAY it.
• Biden, who never can keep his mouth shut, has said publicly Palin’s good looking. I guess that cinches it.  Biden has a grasp of the bloody well obvious.
• Not as bad as we figured, was Gustav. Of course, without the locals actually planning and co-operating as they most certainly didn’t for Katrina, this could have been much worse. Still, McCain has ordered the intensity of the convention lowered.
• Another point of interest with Gustav os that oil prices continue to drop.
• Now, you’ll recall I mentioned the idea that sunspots caused what global warming we have and the lack of them would cause cooling? Well, gee……
• I suspect that new Jon Voight movie might be worth seeing.  And Hollywood is PISSED about this op-ed the other day from him in the WaTi. It’s reccomended reading. Remember, this is a guy who appeared in flicks with Hanoi Jane.
• Hope you had a great weekend… I’m going to leave you with a pic of the Bitmobile… an 04 Rainier with 50,000 miles on it. I spent most of the weekend detailing it, and I’m rather proud of the look of it. As usual, you can drill the picture (twice) to get the high res version, if you like.
  

  Bit's '04 Rainier

Bruce at Q&O dives into the swamp known as Gustav in relation to the RNC. It’s a worthy article, but one point of disagreement:

Frankly, keeping Bush out of the convention limelight is a positive. How to do that without Gustav is all but impossible. Gustav provides a perfect excuse and, interestingly, Bush himself grabbed it quickly.

The “do-over” aspect is very important. Even if New Orleans floods, the orderly and well planned evacuation is a huge positive story to tell. If NO comes out relatively unscathed, weathering a hurricane which is, according to all reports a little more dangerous than Katrina (because of its landfall category and where it is hitting), then this becomes a very, very positive story – one of redemption for the Bush administration.

But here’s the thing;

Bush got the blame from many people for the way Katrina got handled… and I think unfairly. The blame should have gone to the state and local governments, particularly the clueless then- governor of Louisiana  and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin.

Bobby Jindal is running things down there, now, and Ray Nagin has apparently learned a hard lesson about how the buck stops at his desk… he can’t simply push it up the line, as he did in the case of Katrina. Miraculously, buses were located this time that were not, last time out, and they’ve managed for the most part to get the people the hell out of the way of the storm. It’s called perperation and taking charge… something Nagin did not do last time.

I would suggest to you, as a result is what we’re witness to now; This is a huge boost for Republican style independence and self-reliance.  The local and state governments have taken charge of the situation, and miraculously, things are running much more smoothly. This is not a failure on the part of the federal government, (Nor was it in Katrina’s case) it’s what happens when the state and local governments do their jobs, versus Katrina, when they decidedly did not.

The short term political result is a little cloudy, give the immediate impact on the Convention in St Paul. That said, however, in the longer term, I see this as a victory… clearly, given the way things are going with Gustav vs Katrina, minds have been changed about whose responsibility the thing really is… and the results are remarkably different. I see this as resulting in at least marginally less knee-jerk dependence on the federal government.

There was a little paragraph sitting by itself in this New York Times article.

Ninety percent of the Democratic delegates said the nation was in a recession, while 72 percent of the Republican delegates say it is not.

Talk about diametrically opposed views of the world. To understand this better, let’s look at the way the question was worded.

Right now, do you think the United States is in an economic recession, or not?

So this is not a question of the future or the past, but the immediate now. The republican delegates were polled over July 23 to August 26. The democrat delegates were polled July 16 to August 17, Generally, month long polls are viewed with suspicion, especially in politics, because so much can change between when the first responder to the last. But for an economic snapshot, we just have to understand the “now” to be about the last 6 weeks.

The other point is that this is not a question of how good or bad the economy is for them, their neighbors, etc. This is a question that has a specific, definable answer (even if there is more than one definition) and is not a subjective answer. That subjective answer was in the question that preceded this question.

How would you rate the condition of the national economy these days? Is it very good, fairly good, fairly bad, or very bad?

For that question, the dems and GOP delegates had partly similar answers of 34% of dems and 33% of GOP saying the economy was fairly bad. They diverged with 63% of the dems saying the economy was really bad and 55% of the GOP saying it was fairly good.

So we have 63% of the dems saying the economy is really bad and 90% of the dems saying the country was in a recession. 55% of the GOP saying the economy is fairly good and 72% saying we are not in a recession.

Now there are two principle definitions of a recession. The simpler one is when you have two or more quarters of negative GDP. The more complicated one is from the NBER.

A recession is a significant decline in economic activity spread across the economy, lasting more than a few months, normally visible in real GDP, real income, employment, industrial production, and wholesale-retail sales. A recession begins just after the economy reaches a peak of activity and ends as the economy reaches its trough. Between trough and peak, the economy is in an expansion. Expansion is the normal state of the economy; most recessions are brief and they have been rare in recent decades.

Now note this press release from the BEA.

Real gross domestic product — the output of goods and services produced by labor and property located in the United States — increased at an annual rate of 3.3 percent in the second quarter of 2008, (that is, from the first quarter to the second quarter), according to preliminary estimates released by the Bureau of Economic Analysis.  In the first quarter, real GDP increased 0.9 percent.

Now whichever definition you want to use of recession, 3.3% growth is not a recession. In fact, 3.3% growth is a relatively robust growth rate. Or as the NBER puts it, an indication of economic expansion, not recession.

Now you will notice that the New York TImes passes this fact off without comment. A lonely little paragraph buried in the poll results article. But when it comes to the economy, this shows just how out of touch the democrats are. They have morphed themselves into the party of doom and gloom economically, environmentally and internationally. And they are not seeing reality. The question is how much of the electorate has their view of the world distorted through the lens of the MSM and how many are able to discern reality? The answer to that question may well decide who sits in the White House in 2009.

“Stop prying into other people’s vaginas, even if you happen to oppose them politically. What is wrong with you people?”

Ann Althouse.

Professsor Althouse comments on the left’s war on Soccer (and Hockey) Moms.   The left’s hatred of women, bodes ill for both BO and the democrat’s hope for success in November.  Palin Derangement Syndrome is real.

Decided to make a run to Dansville, NY… about an hour’s drive south of Rochester, to catch the annual Balloon Festival. This is usually a two day event. Actually, we’d planned to camp down there for the weekend, but (Shrug) We’re going next weekend, so it’s just as well. Anyway, I thought I’d share a few snaps with you. Kind of rare I get this kind of chance.

You can drill the pics to get slightly larger versions, along with a short description of each shot, and then drill them again to get huge versions of each shot.

(Aside to the other writers here… now you understand why I spent so much time getting some of the bugs out of this display thingie. When it works, it works like CRAZY.)

In 1984 Dave Thomas took a bit out of McDonald’s by asking, “Where is the beef?”   Well today yet another Dave takes yet a bit out of another icon, to wit Barack Obama.   While BO was asleep at the wheel John McCain has stolen Obama’s mantra of change.   David S. Broder, Washington Post:

No one is likely to argue that the speech here “changed politics in America.” His jibes at John McCain and George Bush were standard-issue Democratic fare, and his recital of a long list of domestic promises could have been delivered by any Democratic nominee from Walter Mondale to John Kerry.

In November if you want change, you will have to vote for the Geezer and the Babe, not the Messiah and the Sphinx.

Hat tip:  Ed Morrissey, Hot Airi.

I’ll state this up front; I have no idea who Rogers Cadenhead is, nor do I much care, frankly.  But knowing something of the history of Alan Colmes, I can’t say I’m much surprised to find him in agreement with Candenhead when he says:

One bit of weirdness associated with Palin concerns the birth of her youngest child. As the Alaskan media reported, Palin was attending an energy conference in Texas on April 18 when her water broke four weeks before her due date. After this happened, Palin didn’t head to a hospital or even leave the conference, even though the premature rupture of fetal membrances is normally a cause for an immediate examination by an obstetrician, who will observe the fetus on a monitor to guard against infection and other life-threatening complications. Two other reasons for heightened concern were Palin’s age, 43, and the fact that prenatal testing indicated the child had Down syndrome.

Palin stayed at the conference and delivered a 30-minute speech, then boarded a 12-hour Alaska Airlines flight from Dallas to Anchorage, neglecting to tell the airline her water had broken — most airlines won’t fly a woman in labor. The motivation for all of this appears to be the Palins’ desire that the child be born in Alaska. Her husband Todd told the Anchorage Daily News, “You can’t have a fish picker from Texas.”

When she arrived home, Palin was hospitalized immediately and the baby was born prematurely after labor was induced in the middle of the night.

MichaelW notes this at Q&O and says, in part:

Aside from baby Trig suffering from Down Syndrome, the child was quite healthy at delivery and has been doing fine ever since. It is true that when amino leaks occur, the general advice of doctors is to get to the hospital immediately, but that is not always the case. In fact, when delivery proceeds within 24 hours of an amino leak (a.k.a. water breaking), the risks of any complications to the baby are quite low. Indeed, some women experience minor leakages, as Palin did, well before they are due without any complications whatsoever.

In Palin’s case, she delivered Trig well within the 24 hour window recognized as “safe,” and actually had to be induced because she wasn’t in labor. Moreover, she was in touch were her physician throughout the event, and he did not advise her to act otherwise.

As an aside, the accusation that Trig was born prematurely does not seem to hold water (no pun intended … well, maybe a little) since Palin was past her 36th week, and the definition of “premature birth” is a baby born prior to the 37th week of gestation.

Mike also says, (Doubtless, shaking his head in wonder):

It’s almost as if the Dems can’t help but to resort to misogynistic antagonism in dealing with Gov. Sarah Palin

Well, as I suggested the other day, (And I repeated those comnments over there)….

For possibly the first time in their lives they’re being confronted with a powerful woman who didn’t get her power from a bunch of know-nothings on a sympathy jag. And they simply don’t know how to cope. Or, maybe they just don’t like a powerful woman. Either way, what we’re witness to here is a fear reaction.

So, when we now see Colmes… (…who, even before he became an item in the political world, really has never been worth the air he wastes…)… comes up with a knee-jerk line in this way, I cannot say I’m surprised. It’s pretty much expected, in fact. The bottom line is, he’s scared to death, too, and doesn’t know what else to do. So, he goes instinctively down the road most familiar to him.

As I say, I don’t much care whose Cadenhead is, but that Colmes agrees with the fruitbat in this seems to me an indication of what I’ve always known at an instinctive level about the man.

Fellow Swamp Stomper Sister Toldjah brings up a few other points of light, being tossed at Palin, and says:

What this is all about to the far left more than anything else is the attempt at tearing down and destroying by any means necessary the compelling story of a down home All American Christian woman who grew up and made something of her life and who now stands in line to become the next vice president of the United States.  There’s not much to “pick at” in Sarah Palin’s distinguished record, so what do they do?  They attempt to degrade her and dimish her accomplishments on the basis of her sex … and her faith.   So much for “tolerance” and “respect” for differing views … especially those coming from a conservative Christian woman.

It’s well known that far leftists hate Christians anyway because they represent a moral standard the far left will never ever meet, and amongst political junkies, it’s well known that they also hate strong conservative women (Michelle Malkin can tell you a few stories about that). But we’ve never had a strong conservative woman on a national ticket, so now the country – and the world – will get to see exactly the type of people the far left are.    Whether the mediots document it or not, conservative bloggers will.  Yours truly, along with others, will be on the front lines in exposing them in all their bitter, clingy ugliness.

And that, I think is where all this is going. We see an awful lot, these last couple days, of charges that are at least uninformed, most of it slanderous, being tossed at Palin, in a desperate attempt to get something/anything to stick.  I can’t help but wonder what what point those attempts backfire on the Democrat party.

Memeorandum has much more.

Update: (Bit:) Apparently Colmes, slimeball that he is, pulled the article just as Whizbang predicted. They’ve got the screen shot, though.

Says Dan Collins:

So, let me see.  We’ve got Sarah Palin causing the Down syndrome of her baby who was actually her daughter’s baby whose big brother Track might have been conceived out of wedlock but who nevertheless grew up in a loving home where the parents were willing to make the sacrifices that that many children bring.  That’s really . . . mindbuggering, but apparently all of a piece with the cognitive dissonance that McCain’s choice has caused for those loving, caring, tolerant, inclusive, mentally flexible lefties.  Good thing they aren’t slaves to the mind-forged manacles of the kind of fossilized categorical imperatives that condition the right.

And these are the same people who think that digging into O!s affiliations with Ayers is too much?

Ain’t it real, folks… ain’t it real. I mean, are these leftists the same ones who consider abortion ‘proper prenatal care’?

It’s as I keep saying… this is a fear reaction from the left.

Addendum: (David L )

Compare and contrast how the lefttards treat as if sacred the five minute relationship between a mother and her abortionist versus how they are willing to second quess the relation between Mrs. Palin and her personal physician.   It appears that the leftards view any relationship between mother and physician that does not produce a dead body as fair game.

At this point, I realize I’m belaboring the point. “Sarah Palin is an awful choice for a running mate,” I can hear you saying, “We get it.”

No, Benen, that’s us, for the 20th time and more, tagging you as an a manafestly unserious Obama cheerleader, and on this occasion we see you as, your words not withstanding, recognizing the serious threat Palin represents to Obama’s chances at White House.

In the words of the Bard,  methinks thou dost protest too much. Example:

I don’t doubt for a moment that Sarah Palin is a nice person and probably a competent Alaskan governor. But she also has the thinnest background of any candidate for national office since 1908.

What then, shall we say of Biden? Or, for that matter, Obama himself? Funny how you forget that for all the validity your ‘experience’ complaint contains,  she still has more executive experience than Biden and Obama combined.

Oh, I fully understand WHY you’d neglect to mention that point.  Just don’t figure on us ignoring it as you obviously do so as to make Obama’s case for him.

Pathetic.

Flopping Aces has much more.

This has to be seen to be believed.

Former Democratic National Committee Chairman Don Fowler, on an airplane back to South Carolina, is caught laughing that Hurricane Gustav is going to hit New Orleans at the start of the GOP Convention and therefore God must be with the Democrats.

“Everything is cool,” he tells Congressman John Spratt (D-SC), seated next to him.  They both laugh it up.

A RedState contributor just happened to be behind them and caught it all on tape.

Reynolds:

For me, of course, most of the fun of the past 24 hours has come from watching Democrats get caught up in the whole identity-politics tangle.

And you know, Glenn’s hit this one. That’s really what this has been all about, the last 24 hours. The Democrats, as quoted by McQ,  in the previous post, and by David last night, not really understanding what they were complaining about yet, leaned heavily not o facts, but on the long over-used, and always sexist/racist/bigoted identity politics to try and get a few quick jabs in on Palin, and managed in the process to damage themselves, thereby.

Frankly, I’m unclear which has been more damaging.. the initial attacks and their fallout, or the fallout from Democrats backtracking after recognizing the huge pile of doggie poop they’d stepped in. Either way, they have opened themselves up for serious ridicule from even their own supporters, who seem to me somewhat blindsided by the Obama camp’s stupidity, themselves.

I’ve been saying for years the Identity politics was problematic for the Democrats, given the whole thing is based in their own bigotry, and this is perhaps the best recent example of what I’m talking about.

I see, by way of McQ, a set of trascripts on National Review  from Larry Kudlow, of interviews with Sarah Palin, Here and here I’ll include a few excepts, here.

Kudlow: Here’s the bad news. The Congress is going to take their summer recess without a vote — not even a vote — on rolling back the moratorium on drilling onshore and offshore. Not even a vote. Nothing on ANWR. Nothing on shale. Nothing on the Outer Continental Shelf. What’s your reaction to this?

Palin: Well with all due respect to Congress, it’s pretty pathetic, that action they’ve taken. I appreciate the President’s call to lift the moratorium. I appreciate the President’s call to drill in ANWR, to do all those things for American production opportunities. Very, very disappointed in Congress though.

Kudlow: You know we talked about a month ago, or last time you were on the program, you told me you were going to persuade Senator McCain to drill in ANWR. Now actually, McCain’s come a long way on drilling Outer Continental Shelf. Have you yet talked him into ANWR?

Palin: I have not talked him into ANWR yet. But yeah, aren’t you appreciative though that his mind has evolved into being open enough to say yes to that offshore? Obama certainly hasn’t gone there. So, you know, for me it’s all the more reason to support the Republican ticket heading into the next era in American economy here. We certainly need this. We need it for American security, for energy independence. All those things we talked about last time. I think we need McCain in that White House despite, still, the close-mindedness on ANWR. I think he’s going to get there though.

That’s one reason I was excited by Palin being chosen in the first place. That he chose her for the task of VP, knowing she’s been pushing for ANWR all along, suggests to me he’s already pretty much made up his mind to go with drilling in ANWR.

Kudlow: All right, well we need you to persuade him. Now you’re fighting a battle in the state. You want to get a new natural gas pipeline, as I understand it. You’ve got to get it through your state legislature. You’re going to run that up from the North Slope down through Canada and eventually to the lower forty-eight. What’s the state of play on that? Are you winning or losing on your new gas pipeline?

Palin: We’re winning and I’m glad that you asked that question. It’s so timely because it could be today that our lawmakers vote yay or nay on the TransCanada pipeline, natural gas pipeline being built 1,700 miles. This is North America’s largest, most expensive, private sector infrastructure project in our history. It’s $30 to $40 billion dollars to deal with the energy crisis—get this safe, stable, clean domestic supply of energy and natural gas flowing from our rich reserves up in Prudhoe Bay on the North Slope of Alaska, into the hungry markets in the Midwest especially.

I note, as I did in last night’s Ramble, that she signed the bill on the 28th.

Kudlow: Governor Palin, people want to know why you did fire your police commissioner, or public safety commissioner Monegan. And is it because he stopped you from getting rid of your brother-in-law or what? People want to know if this is an ethical lapse on your part.

Palin: I’m glad that you’re asking, because I never tried to fire a former brother-in-law who’s been divorced from my sister for quite some time. No, it was the commissioner, that we were seeking more results, more action, to fill vacant trooper positions to deal with bootlegging and alcohol abuse problems in our rural villages especially. We just needed some new direction, a lot of new energy in that position. That is why the replacement took place there of the commissioner of public safety. It had nothing to do with an estranged former brother-in-law, a divorce that had happened some years ago.

Now, of course, you KNOW that’s not going to satisfy some folks. You know, the people who forgot about troopergate, travelgate and so on. They’re going to do their best to stir this pot. They will fail. There is, based on what I’m reading, no ‘there’ there.

The amount of hate dripping off the left-side sites is formidable. The appointment of Palin has the Democrats leaping about n all directions at once.  McQ, again, points out:

How soon we forget. Bill Clinton a few nights ago:

He recalled that 16 years ago “Republicans said I was too young and too inexperienced to be commander in chief. Sound familiar? It didn’t work in 1992 and it will not work in 2008.”

Really? Well it doesn’t mean that Democrats won’t try:

Rep. Diana DeGette, today:

“The selection of Governor Palin is an insult to women. She has obviously been chosen to appeal to female voters, but she lacks both the experience and policy positions to serve as Vice-President of the United States.”

“The announcement of Governor Palin’s selection on John McCain’s 72nd Birthday highlights the fact t hat the Vice-President must be qualified to step into the Presidency from Day One. Sarah Palin is a 2-year governor with zero foreign policy experience whose former position was mayor of a town of 9,000.”

Rahm Emanuel:

“After trying to make experience the issue of this campaign, John McCain celebrated his 72nd birthday by appointing a former small town mayor and brand new Governor as his Vice Presidential nominee. Is this really who the Republican Party wants to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency? Given Sarah Palin’s lack of experience on every front and on nearly every issue, this Vice Presidential pick doesn’t show judgment: it shows political panic.”

Well, just an observation; It seems to me that my bringing in Palin, who has more executive experience than Obam and Biden combined, a woman who has actually run a state, whereas all Obama and Biden have in their history is running their mouths, what we have here is a full-on panic situation for the Democrats.  Anything they complain about with this candidate, frankly, brings up the utter lack of experience both ends of the Democrat ticket bring to the table.