What, precisely, are you trying to protect? Do you really want a president who has to be protected against people who say mean or inappropriate things?
Who said he's trying to protect anything? Do you understand anything at all?
The poster is acting like an @sshole, and it's being pointed out to him. Think of it as being similar to picking up the dog poo in your back yard.
Yup... hit another nerve -- which isn't hard where discussions of Sarah Palin are concerned.
Just look at how hard folks are working to protect Sarah Palin from hard words. Look at the posts on this thread, just for starters. It's like she's some fragile little thing who can't take the sort of language that's commonly employed on other politicians of both sexes.
You really ought to think about that. Is the problem that she's all that weak, or that you think she is (even if you say otherwise), or maybe both.