Timing Is Everything

Scott Johnson writes:

Governor Palin’s political and media enemies have not yet drawn blood. Thinking to condemn her, for example, the director of the Alaska Wildlife Alliance told the Associated Press: “Her philosophy from our perspective is cut, kill, dig and drill.” Reasonable people might construe that as high praise. Indeed, it sounds like a winning slogan, if not a platform.

If this quote had run a week earlier, the vendors at the Republican convention would have sold 27,325 T-shirts with that slogan printed on it.

Related: Kevin Williamson explores the the flip-side of the T-shirt wars with an exploration of liberal fashionism.