She’s a barracuda all right. What a great issue to explode and showcase how bad McCain and Palin really are. How extreme she truly is. How anti-women they really are. What a great issue to make McCain cringe. To drive a wedge between him and women and independents. To put McCain and Palin on the side of rapists versus rape victims. To change the discussion of the entire week from lipstick and fish to a real issue that scares the hell out of women, and men, across America.

I mean, the reason the city didn’t pick up the charge of the rape kits is because they were more interested in keeping taxes low. Yes, when given the choice between a tax cut and helping rape victims, Palin chose tax cuts. Hmmm… tax cuts. Is that an issue John McCain will be talking about? Would it be worthwhile to link any discussion of John McCain’s tax cuts to the issue of rape? Would that freak McCain out on one of his key GOP talking points? Yes it would. How about turning Palin’s barracuda name around on her – she’s a barracuda all right. Think this is an issue that might be worth jumping on, considering the only messages we’ve been able to get out all week are that we don’t hate women and we wish John McCain would stop being mean to us?

Now imagine what Karl Rove would do with this issue had it been Joe Biden who charged women for rape kits. It will be telling to see what the Obama campaign does with this.