If Watergate occured today, Nixon and Agnew would have both finished out their terms in office—with the investigation concentrating on nailing the minor players. The Justice Dept would have instructed Sirica to issue rulings favorable to the Nixon administration- and Gerald Ford would have remained an amiable congressman. WaPo would have offered both sides of the controversy, and conservative allies would have started a campaign to portray those urging Nixon's resignation as Commie pinkos.

Now, this, in a nutshell, is what is wrong with the Republican Party and their more rabid supporters. Yes, its true some of the rumored allegations about Ms. Palin, have not turned out to be true. The ones that are true, however, should give every thinking voter pause. The ethics probes, the per diem expense charges, Palin's prior statements that global warming is not caused by manmade factors and subsequent denial of those statements, the 200 million received in federal earmark funding during her administration—-these are not lefty propaganda- but cold hard facts. We've had 8 years of a president and VP who were more than willing to ignore factual evidence when it suited their agenda to do so.

It is not surprising that partisans blame their favorite whipping boy “the librul MSM”. It is the press' role in our society to weed through the deceptions, half-truths and out-and-out lies put out in political campaigns—and there are just as many conservative media outlets as liberal ones these days. Many in the GOP, long depressed about their party's fortunes after 8 disasterous years of W, are more than willing to engage in self-delusion, in order to retain the presidency.

My “Now that's funny!” comment was aimed at the cartoon!!!

Enjoy the weekend, All.