Paglia defends Palin

The last few weeks have been strange ones as the Left began a feeding frenzy no Vice Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin. No rumor was too salacious, no innuendo off bounds, no crazy conspiracy theory too far-fetched to be dismissed by the more partisan bloggers on the liberal end of things. Ward even noted charges that this relatively innocuous Alaskan was akin to Hitler. The vicious attacks on Joe Biden by the Right seemed quite tame in comparison. ("Joe is really, really liberal!" "Yeah, well Palin is the antichrist!")

So, it is refreshing to see the admittedly liberal and Democrat-supporting Camille Paglia with nice words to say about Sarah Palin.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/09/10/palin/

The write-up is hardly an endorsement - Paglia is still an Obama booster - but it shows a way back for the Left to the high-minded campaign that Obama seemed to be pushing earlier this year. Let's go ahead and debate issues, even character, but lets be reasonable and wise enough to admit ever candidate has some virtues in addition to their vices.