At this point it is probably best for Obama to let the blip of “Lipstick on a Pig” drift away into the past and the 15 minute news cycle and attention span, and hope that the prefacing statements managed to crop into the coverage, but if he really wanted to be bold, he would say it again.  After going over some version of the Tom Toles line.  Except he wouldn’t say it; a surrogate would say it.

Hillary Clinton.

One theory about this election is that John McCain has already been defeated, and the Democrats do no good in foucsing all their lines of attack on McCain while merely sidling to Sarah Palin.  If you go to the Rush Limbaugh webpage, for instance, you would find a McCain to Palin ratio for various items of defense of roughly 0 to 50.  Or, run over to The Onion and consider this.  This runs counter to your Arianna Huffington, and an opinionated blog entry I didn’t read but read about, or rather read that it existed.

 A certain cynicism keeps getting pretty brazenly stated.:

John Feehery, a Republican strategist, said the campaign is entering a stage in which skirmishes over the facts are less important than the dominant themes that are forming voters’ opinions of the candidates.

“The more the New York Times and The Washington Post go after Sarah Palin, the better off she is, because there’s a bigger truth out there and the bigger truths are she’s new, she’s popular in Alaska and she is an insurgent,” Feehery said. “As long as those are out there, these little facts don’t really matter.”

The term that Stephen Colbert coined is “Truthiness.”  This goes for attacks on Obama as well.  The “Lipstick on a Pig” comment and resulting controversy, which Obama only half respectfully pooh-poohed as a “distraction”, did serve as a bit of a distraction to point to the current “Obama proposed Sex Education for Children as Young as Five” advertisement — which, you know, “sex education” when you skew at age five, six, seven, eight, nine is a lesson in bewaring the Sexual Predators.  (Wait.  Wait.  The “Newsbusters” website is on the case to debunk this Democratic defense.  Heh.)  [Somewhere in fifth grade the girls and boys are divided, the girls see an awkward film “Your Changing Body” and the boys see “The Never-Ending Story”.  At least that’s how it worked when I was in fifth grade.)

All of which does lead me to wonder something.  The Peggy Noonan open-mic statement, which included “Whenever we do this ‘Narrative’s game, we lose.”  What elections was she referring to, and when does it fail?

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