TimothyJ Congressman Charles Rangel

A reporter from WCBS TV asked Rep. Rangel a relatively simple question: Why are the Democrats so afraid of Sarah Palin? Well according to Rangel: "You got to be kind to the disabled." The remainder of the conversation went as follows:

CBS 2 HD: "You got to be kind to the disabled?"

Rangel: "Yes."

CBS 2 HD: "She's disabled?"

Rangel: "There's no question about it politically. It's a nightmare to think that a person's foreign policy is based on their ability to look at Russia from where they live."

Shortly after the interview hit the airwaves, the backpedalling began and Rangel issued the following statement:

Governor Palin is an obviously healthy person who in no way fits the description of disabled. I meant to say then, and I am saying now, that she entered the campaign with a disadvantage in the area of foreign policy.

Any inference that my words were in any connected to her son, Trig, who was born with Down syndrome, is a real stretch -- and, I would have to think -- a way to make political points out of my poor choice of words.

So in the wake of pigs wearing lipstick, Rep. Rangel asks us to believe that the GOP has declared a "guerrilla war" against himself and his fellow Democrats and that all he and his fellow Dems are guilty of is choosing unfortunate descriptors and sayings. Hmmm, maybe when pigs fly!