Beware the bogeyman

Sarah Palin just doesn't get it.

In recent media appearances, she's still setting up strawmen and blaming anonymous bloggers for the failures of the McCain/Palin campaign.

Former Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is still mad at media coverage of her candidacy, particularly "anonymous, pathetic bloggers" who she says spread falsehoods about her.

The truth is, this isn't about bloggers. Nothing a blogger wrote doomed the McCain/Palin candidacy. They did it themselves. Our candidate offered hope, they offered fear. While Barack Obama brought forward change, they offered the status quo or even antiquated policies. They brought the lies, distortions and bigotry. Obama brought the truth.

There is a reason why we at NPI refer to the G.O.P. as the graveyard of progress. John McCain and Sarah Palin offered nothing new, and the American people said, "No thanks."

President Obama said it best, yesterday, when he said:

In the last few days, we've seen proposals arise from some in Congress that you may not have read but you'd be very familiar with because you've been hearing them for the last 10 years, maybe longer. They're rooted in the idea that tax cuts alone can solve all our problems; that government doesn't have a role to play; that half-measures and tinkering are somehow enough; that we can afford to ignore our most fundamental economic challenges -- the crushing cost of health care, the inadequate state of so many of our schools, our dangerous dependence on foreign oil.

So let me be clear: Those ideas have been tested, and they have failed. They've taken us from surpluses to an annual deficit of over a trillion dollars, and they've brought our economy to a halt. And that's precisely what the election we just had was all about. The American people have rendered their judgment. And now is the time to move forward, not back.

McCain/Palin didn't lose because of some nameless, faceless, "pajama-clad" bogeyman who, according to them, lives in the basement of his/her parents. They lost because their ideas have been tried and failed.

We, the People have reclaimed our government. And as the film character V once said, "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people."