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Fred Thompson, by all accounts, knocks one out of the park, and delivers the best speech to date. Video here, transcript here.

On Sarah Palin...

"Speaking of the vice presidential nominee, what a breath of fresh air Gov. Sarah Palin is.

"She is from a small town, with small town values, but that's not good enough for those folks who are attacking her and her family.

"Some Washington pundits and media big shots are in a frenzy over the selection of a woman who has actually governed rather than just talked a good game on the Sunday talk shows and hit the Washington cocktail circuit. Well, give me a tough Alaskan governor who has taken on the political establishment in the largest state in the union -- and won -- over the beltway business-as-usual crowd any day of the week.

"Let's be clear ... the selection of Gov. Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a courageous, successful, reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment.

Sound like anyone else we know?"

Fred then speaks of John McCain, as a story of true character. There's absolutely no comparison...John McCain's fire-and-torture tested youth to the shoddy pretension and the embracing of leftism and socialism of his opponent's youth. Service to country vs. coke and dope, Saul Alinski and 20 years of the Reverend Wright.

Fred Thompson on Barack Hussein Obama...

"History making in that he is the most liberal, most inexperienced nominee to ever run for president. Apparently they believe that he would match up well with the history making, Democrat controlled Congress. History making because it's the least accomplished and most unpopular Congress in our nation's history.

"Together, they would take on these urgent challenges with protectionism, higher taxes and an even bigger bureaucracy.

"And a Supreme Court that could be lost to liberalism for a generation."

Joe Lieberman, ex-Democrat who ran with Al Gore in 2000, also has much to say about BHO:

"Sen. Barack Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead," Lieberman said. "But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America."

There's no love in the new Leftist-Democrat world for such a brave man as Joe Lieberman. Hat's off to his bravery; he's certain to catch hell. Another Democrat who left the party before bowing to the neo-fascism that's taken over once-great party.

Sarah Palin is getting a hell of a workover by the MSM and the hateful left. Although the left invented and espouses identity politics, any of those 'beliefs' can easily be thrown aside for the greater 'good' of securing a victory at all costs. They, the pundits and bloggers for the left, supported and unquestioned by the MSM, feel that damaging a 17-year-old for their cause is perfectly OK.

For BHO, a baby is a punishment; Sarah Palin calls any new life a blessing. How easy it would've been for Bristol to slip away and, 30 minutes later, be not-pregnant. That would've been the easy choice; the choice of low-character and no-morals. A Democrat's 'choice' is the choice of death; Bristol's choice, the choice for a new life. There's your HOPE, Obama, soon to be a squalling infant, a bright spot destined to go forward to no telling what sort of destiny. Certainly not a red spot in a stainless steel pan.

The fierceness of the left's attacks on Sarah Palin is simply the guilt they harbor for their own bad choices.

Jonah Goldberg links to a post by Joseph Bottum, titled "The Politics of Blood". Joseph links these quotes from Daily KOS...

"I am prepared to do whatever is necessary to destroy the Republican Party as it exists today as well as everything it stands for.

"If health insurance for all, an end to the Iraq War, an end to torture and illegal wiretapping, and a sane energy policy can be obtained at the price of destroying one teenage girl, her family, and the surrendering our self-respect I see that as a cheap trade.

"Go talk about nobility of purpose to those 4,000+ dead American soldiers in Iraq."

and

"This is about Power . . . How it is obtained—and how it is wielded in ways that affects all of us.

"Are you telling me that you would not use character-destroying lies to ensure a war against Iran does not occur?

"Are you telling me you would not spread lies about a man’s integrity, even if it defeated a candidate who take away the right to choose?

"Are you telling me you would not destroy the love a family holds for one another, even if it meant letting someone who would destroy the constitution become president?

"None of use would use these tactics in a perfect world. It is not a perfect world. It is a fallen world. We have to judge costs and benefits, not moral absolutes. I know this is the way to fanaticism and destruction—believe me I do. But, when we face opponents such as the ones we face . . . what else is there for us to do?

"What choice do we have? When faced with monsters, we have to be monstrous ourselves."

Yeah. We've seen the monsters.

But, you see, the monsters always lose.

Joseph's final line is worth reading; go there, and see for yourself.