McCain Team: Please Let the Dems Keep Talking

Today another Democrat said something stupid (I know - redundant).

"South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain had chosen a running mate 'whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.'"

Note: Carol Fowler is the wife of Don Fowler, former DNC chairman who was taped openly rooting for Hurricane Gustav to ruin New Orleans and the GOP Convention. The McCain "war room" reaction was predictable:

SCGOP’s Dawson: Obama & Fowler are eager to smear, not ready to lead

COLUMBIA, S.C. – South Carolina Republican Party Chairman Katon Dawson today released the following statement in response to Carol Fowler’s assertion that Sarah Palin’s “primary qualification [for Vice President] seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion”:

“Carol Fowler’s statement is offensive, outrageous and - most importantly – dead wrong. Governor Sarah Palin is a strong pro-life, pro-family reform-minded conservative with meaningful experience whose message has resonated in South Carolina. Fowler’s statement is born out of desperation from a campaign that is sputtering across the South.

“Carol Fowler should immediately apologize. Her remarks are unbecoming of a party leader and demonstrate poor judgment. Carol Fowler and Barack Obama are eager to smear – not ready to lead.”

Andy McCarthy had this to say about the McCain response, and I agree:

The Demand-Apology-Candidate-Publicly-Condemn Schtick

Why do people on our side do this? Does anyone remotely care if Mrs. Fowler apologizes or if the Audacity of Lipstick & Old Fish now decides idiotic remarks need to be "rejected"?

Besides encouraging them to keep talking, why should we ask them to do anything?

Exactly, let them talk. They're likely to say dumb things like this from Deepak Chopra:

She is the reverse of Barack Obama, in essence his shadow, deriding his idealism and exhorting people to obey their worst impulses. In psychological terms the shadow is that part of the psyche that hides out of sight, countering our aspirations, virtue, and vision with qualities we are ashamed to face: anger, fear, revenge, violence, selfishness, and suspicion of "the other." For millions of Americans, Obama triggers those feelings, but they don't want to express them. He is calling for us to reach for our higher selves, and frankly, that stirs up hidden reactions of an unsavory kind. (Just to be perfectly clear, I am not making a verbal play out of the fact that Sen. Obama is black. The shadow is a metaphor widely in use before his arrival on the scene.) I recognize that psychological analysis of politics is usually not welcome by the public, but I believe such a perspective can be helpful here to understand Palin's message. In her acceptance speech Gov. Palin sent a rousing call to those who want to celebrate their resistance to change and a higher vision.

Or this, from Salon Magazine:

Sarah Palin and her virtual burqa have me and my friends retching into our handbags. She's such a power-mad, backwater beauty-pageant casualty, it's easy to write her off and make fun of her. But in reality I feel as horrified as a ghetto Jew watching the rise of National Socialism.

She is dangerous. She is not just pro-life, she's anti-life. She is the suppression of human feeling and instinct. She is a slave to the compromises dictated by her own desire for power and control. Sarah Palin is untethered from her own needs and those of her family, which is in crisis, with a pregnant daughter, a son on the way to Iraq and a special-needs infant.

She should, however, be a galvanizing point for women everywhere. Not to support her candidacy but to rebel against the Republican Party and take back the respect and equality so hard-earned by the women's liberation movement in the 1970s.

We've been shanghaied. This is sick. We need to slap the face of our bad frat-boy date and walk home from this drive-in movie. Sarah Palin may put out to be popular, but the rest of America's women don't need to do the same.

If not, what the hell? John McCain should go the whole Hugh Hefner route and have eight V.P.s that all look exactly like Sarah Palin.

It's McCain's world, girls: You'd just live in it.

Let them talk. America needs to hear what the left really thinks about an accomplished pro-life mom.

UPDATE- Fowler issues her own non-apology apology (gee, just like her husband):

South Carolina Democratic Party Chair Carol Fowler, facing criticism for her remark to Politico's Alex Burns about Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, issues an apology:

"I personally admire and respect the difficult choices that women make everyday, and I apologize to anyone who finds my comment offensive. I clumsily was making a point about people in South Carolina who may vote based on a single issue. Whether it’s the environment, the economy, the war or a woman’s right to choose, there are people who will cast their vote based on a single issue. That was the only point I was attempting to make."

AND STOP THE PRESSES - A DEMOCRAT DEFENDS PALIN!

Update: Also tonight, Rep. John Spratt (D-S.C.) put out a statement to say: "I cannot believe that Carol Fowler made such a statement, and I want to make it clear that she speaks for herself, and not for me or the Democratic Party."

More Spratt: "Her statement about Governor Palin is outrageous and wrong, because Sarah Palin's qualifications are quite evident."

Ooo, that guy isn't going to get invited to any Dem party dinners.