As it slowly dawns on the Obama campaign that the stench beginning to 
assault its nostrils is that of its own decaying flesh, Obama and his 
minions are becoming more desperate and more picayune in their 
lashing out at Sarah Palin, whom they rightly view as having started 
them on the spiraling descent to their impending demise.

Driven by desperation, no allegation against Palin seems too petty or 
too contrived. That even the smallest, most inconsequential hint of 
scandal that can be tied to her is deemed enough to sink her is 
supremely hypocritical, especially coming from a party supremely un-
bothered by the shameful and scandalous acts of its own champions.

Huey Long, Democrat Governor and Senator from Louisiana in the '30s, 
is famous for saying "The only way I can lose is if I'm caught in bed 
with a dead girl or a live boy!"

Barack Obama seemed to have the Presidency just as securely wrapped 
up, and  the old "dead girl or live boy" rule doesn't seem to apply 
these days, at least not to Democrats.

After all, Ted Kennedy was essentially caught with a dead girl in his 
car, and he has won re-election over and over again. Barney Frank was 
caught with a string of live boys, and yet his political career has 
continued unimpeded. And the live girl under Bill Clinton's desk
certainly hasn't tarnished his star.

Nor has it tarnished Obama's star, in the eyes of his adoring 
followers, that he has admitted using and even selling cocaine, or 
that his best (and possibly only) friend is an unrepentant domestic 
terrorist, or that a good case can be made that Obama's entire career 
has been sponsored and bankrolled by Big Arab Money.

So what has happened to make the Obama Express veer to the shoulder, 
tires spinning and sending showers of loose gravel over the edge of 
the cliff into the abyss, with the whole bus soon to follow?

Sarah Palin is what happened. McCain put her in the movies and made a 
big star out of her and all she had to do was act naturally.

And she didn't win over any of Obama's disciples, or even Hillary's. 
All she did was revitalize and motivate the bedrock conservative base 
to the extent that folks who had fully intended to "sit this one 
out", some even with the intent to "teach the Republicans a lesson", 
are now coming out of the woodwork to cheer the McCain-Palin ticket 
on, and will doubtless turn out to vote in droves, more of them than 
the Democrats ever imagined. The "Silent Majority" is back!

It's beginning to look as if we may elect McCain-Palin in such a 
landslide that the predictable Democrat whining and belly-aching 
about the election being "stolen" from them will seem even more 
ridiculous than the last time.

In the "sport" of "competitive eating", a sudden involuntary and 
disqualifying regurgitation is euphemistically called a "reversal of 
fortune". I'll bet the sudden reversal of Barack Obama's fortune is 
making him feel a little nauseous about now.