I dig the Republicans making this election about personality rather than issues, because it’s what they do. It’s what they understand. Nothing sinister about it, it’s just an argument that sort of person finds more persuasive. So Barack + proximity to William Aires = “hates America” for them fairly easily.

I just don’t get it. You look at his life, and what has he done that makes these people think he hates America or that he’s some sorta secret sleeper cell terrorist or something? It’s an indicator of how conservatives dominate the discussion that this isn’t asked much. What is it about Obama that says he hates America? you’d ask. And in some sense I guess some prominent pundits have already answered it…I seem to remember Sean Hannity saying he is afraid that, in his heart, Obama doesn’t love America, or similar.

Meanwhile you get this:

Palin touts stance on ‘Bridge to Nowhere,’ doesn’t note flip-flop: Politics | adn.com
Meanwhile, Weinstein noted, the state is continuing to build a road on Gravina Island to an empty beach where the bridge would have gone — because federal money for the access road, unlike the bridge money, would have otherwise been returned to the federal government.

So 1) not only did she support the Bridge to Nowhere, but 2) she is currently in support of a road to nowhere. Why? Because if Alaska didn’t use the money, they’d have to give it back. So not only is the “thanks but no thanks” a lie, but it covers up a greater falsehood: she’ll keep Federal money and burn it on something useless.

But somehow, in many people’s minds, the perky scrappy hockey mom image wins.