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When the Fowlers aren’t cracking jokes about God smiting New Orleans with a Cat 4 hurricane just to mess up the GOP convention, they like to spend their time generating pearls of wisdom like this:

South Carolina Democratic chairwoman Carol Fowler sharply attacked Sarah Palin today, saying John McCain had chosen a running mate “whose primary qualification seems to be that she hasn’t had an abortion.” 

Palin is an opponent of abortion rights and gave birth to her fifth child, Trig, earlier this year after finding out during her pregnancy that the baby had Down syndrome.

Fowler told my colleague Alex Burns in an interview that the selection of an opponent of abortion rights would not boost McCain among many women.

“Among Democratic women and even among independent women, I don’t think it helped him,” she said. 

Told of McCain’s boost in the new ABC/Washington Post among white women following the Palin pick, Fowler said: “Just anecdotally, I believe that those white women are Republican women anyway.”  (Whatever you say, Toots. – Ed.)

She’s half right, folks.  Had Governor Palin committed any acts of infanticide like our boy Obama defends, she would have apparently been fully qualified to run for VP on the Democrat ticket.

UPDATE (09/11/2008 – 06:00 AM EST):  Of course…it was a “botched joke“!