If she's tough enough to be president, why treat her like a fragile flower?

Ah, the big strong military hero protecting the flower of white wimminhood against the Evil Black Man:

Wait a minute...haven't the Republicans used this kind of wolf imagery and footage before, in a different context?

I didn't even have to read the whole post at TPM, where the new ad was posted, to remember the wolf imagery used to represent Islamic terrorists in 2004. Nice dogwhistling, Mr. Rove. You get to evoke the earlier ad and reinforce the notion of Barack Obama as a Muslim Terrorist AND a Big Black Buck out to Debase Our White Women.

If the McCain campaign wants to use wolf imagery, why not just cut to the chase and run this as an ad:

I'm not sure how you fight this kind of thing, these lies and innuendo that play to people's most base fears; the things that keep them up at night, the notions they don't dare talk about. It's long past time for Obama to take the gloves off, but with the McCain campaign tapping the reptilian brain like this, I'm not sure what would work.

It's pretty much all up to the press at this point, and since the press has latched onto the "lipstick on a pig" thing and taken the McCain line that it's a slur against Palin, I guess we're pretty much screwed seven ways to Sunday.

Enjoy your new Christian Dominionist overlords, and enjoy yourself when they get the Battle of Armageddon they so desperately want.