MOTHER GRIZZLY-SARAH PALIN.

Until recently, I always thought that intelligent politicians (now an Oxymoron?), would look-over the potential candidates from the "other" party and focus on those who they believed to be the most incompetent; the "natural" losers; those with incoherent messages; those who private polling predicted had no chance to win anything.

The shrewed politicians would then begin to spread favorable stories, items, tid-bits, news plants about these " losers' in the hope that the other party would then really select them as their candidates--sort of killing with faint love.  If one party can get the other party to put forth, as candidates, those who are "losers", well. then, somewhere along the election trail they would commit so many gaffs that they would be sure to lose the election.  Witness Quayle with potatoes, etc.

But, I guess times have changed.  Today, Democrats are pulling out every stop to prevent Sarah Palin from being on the 2012 ballot.  Ever stop to wonder why?  They're afraid of her and what she stands for.  They know that she could and would win.  Every political pundit Democrat, Republican, Independent--what have you, knows that if McCain had unleashed her on Obama and Biden, it would be President McCain today and Obama would be running for Mayor of Chicago, not Rahm "The Fish" Emmanuel.

There's a new paradigm in politics.  "..Attack what you fear--destroy it ab-initio--kill it in the "womb."

So, rather than allowing Sarah to make the gaffs they "know" she'll make and thus destroying herself, they attack, and attack, and attack hoping to drive her off he ballot. 

If she's so incompetent, why not praise her ever so gently; encourage her to run; encourage those "dastardly" Republicans to make her their point person.  Then step back and watch her disintegrate--watch her being laughed off the stage-stand tall in the comparison between Sarah and your candidate.  Gosh, if Sarah is everything the Democrats say about her, they should be setting up an election fund to enable her to run for office.

But we all know why she's being attacked so.  She's is the Democrats' worst nightmare come true; she's Freddy on the Democrats' "Elm Street"; She's the next President of The United States--she will be POTUS in 2012.