So, when I saw Pete Abel’s tirade against Sarah Palin, I took it in stride. After all, The Moderate Voice isn’t, I reasoned. I’ve pointed out the serious lack of moderation there (To say nothing of the rolling waves of BDS which eminate from the site) and the long and loud left tilting several times… even to their faces.
Imagine, however, my amaze when intelectual honesty took over after the fact.
Yesterday, I posted my case against Gov. Palin. A short while later — per several reader challenges — I retracted one of the points from that case, and then started to seriously question the other points.
In the end, though I’m still not a Palin fan, I suspect my rush to judgment may have blinded me to certain nuances about her record — nuances that I’d otherwise gladly investigate and consider, if it were another candidate, such as Sens. McCain and Obama, and to a lesser degree, Sen. Biden. Hell, I’ve given Sen. Clinton more rope than I’ve offered Gov. Palin.
It now appears that my “research” on Palin was really not research at all, but a seek-and-destroy mission, seizing anything that supported my pre-determined views. Shame on me. That’s not what a so-called moderate should do.
I’ve bounced all over Gandleman and TMV several times in the last few years. I’d be remiss, then, if I didn’t point out those rare instances when intelectual honesty makes an unscheduled apperence over there. So, here you are.
Tags: McCain, moderate voice, Sarah Palin
