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Just some links this morning. One of my daily reads is Chicago Boyz, two great posts from there:

First Marriage and Models, connecting the role model for women of Sarah Palin to the women in Robert Heinlein’s novels and what it portends for the modern feminits.

The second is The Left Embraces Its Extremists.

What’s happening now in the Democratic party is that the ideological liberals (Dean, MoveOn, Kos, et al) have succeeded in wresting control from the institutional liberals (Hillary, Lieberman, et al). Where the Republicans have largely been successful at shearing off and marginalizing the influence in their own party of people like David Duke, Pat Buchanan, and less conservative but equally nutty types like Ross Perot, the Democrats have not. They have gone from Mondale, to Dukakis, to Clinton, to Gore, to Kerry, to Obama – a nearly unbroken linear progression from garden-variety liberal to wackadoo liberal.

Which is why I’ve thought from the beginning that Obama would lose, however much he was riding high at times.

From Town Hall, check out Dennis Prager’s The Gibson Doctrine, in which he takes a cold eyed look at Charles Gibson’s interview with Sarah Palin.

Let me put this another way. Charlie Gibson showed far greater hostility toward the Republican vice-presidential candidate than Dan Rather did in his interview with Saddam Hussein or Mike Wallace did in his interview with Iran’s Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Which reminds me of another Talmudic dictum: “Those who are merciful to the cruel will be cruel to the merciful.”

We might call it the media’s Gibson Doctrine: Confront Republicans, act obsequious toward tyrants.

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