Tom Hayden on the Palin problem

Tom Hayden argues in Palin a Threat, Not a Distraction Huffington Post 09/14/08

Sarah Palin is a mortal threat to the possibility of Obama winning, not a distraction. The reason is simple: if she can add a couple of points to McCain from defecting white women and the newly-energized right wing religious base without losing more independent votes, McCain pulls ahead in some key states.

The dangerous tendency of the Obama campaign and its Democratic surrogates is to not fight back, but treat Palin as a "distraction" from McCain, the economy, the issues they feel familiar with, etc. ...

There needs to be a controlled message that treats Palin as an extension of McCain, not a bobble-head to be laughed at.

This is a quotable line: "She and McCain, like Bush and Iraq, are faith-based missions that will crash on us."

He goes on to elaborate a Custer analogy.

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