When you fire a mortar, ensure that you have a foxhole to jump into for the counter-battery fire. ;-D

>>If you say so. But, c'mon, Tamar, considering Palins signature line about pitbulls and lipstick, you have to admit that there was an attempt to use that old phrase in linkage. It defies logic to think otherwise unless you would be more willing to consider it a huge gaffe and poor judgment. The crowd at the time certainly got the "joke" and reference and no amount of willful blindness on partisan Democrats part can change that. Unless you also have a bizarro-world explanation for the crowd's reaction and that I'd really like to hear.
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>>I'm perfectly willing to overlook slips of the tongue (or else I'd have a lot of fun with Biden) but claiming that this *wasn't* a clumsy attempt to insult Palin strains credulity.
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>Personally, I like Obama's explanation on Letterman: the policies are the pig, Palin is the lipstick.
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>Tamar