Charles Blow usually knows when and how to fight a battle, but his column today about Sarah Palin is totally ridiculous.
Yet the left continues to elevate her every utterance so that they can mock and deride her. The problem is that this strategy continues to backfire. The more the left tries to paint her as one of the “Mean Girls,” the more the right sees her as “Erin Brockovich.” The never-ending attempts to tear her down only build her up. She’s like the ominous blob in the horror films: the more you shoot at it, the bigger and stronger it becomes.
Blow's argument is one I've heard many times about nearly every wingnut: ignore them and they'll go away. Super stupid. Yeah, because when we ignored Glenn Beck while he was at Headline News -- that totally made him go away.