Because other than that, I can't see a reason for why anyone would want this delusional loon in public office.

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As some Repugnant from Hawaii said about Nixon's Carswell nomination to the Extremes: "Don't the mediocre deserve representation?"

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People will wear Sarah Palin ears and make Sarah Palin hand salutes in that dark period between the cancellation of the original Sarah Palin series and her triumphant return to the millions of adoring fans everywhere. But! J.J. Abrams won't ask her to be in the newest movie, leaving Sarah to be angry on the Interwebz and guesting on Conan O'Brien, crying about what might have been.

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Encouraging that the NYT's token conservative for the editorial page knows that saying "fuck it" in the middle of the term for the job that made people take you seriously because she was too hard was a career ender. Unlike his brilliant predecessor.

It's one thing for an attention whore to whine about the glare of the media spotlight, it's quite another to complain about the job being too difficult or too boring.

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(2) I'm pretty fucking weary of dudes who went to Harvard championing good ol' ordinary American populism.

(3) "All of this had something to do with ordinary partisan politics. But it had everything to do with Palin's gender and her social class." Y'know, I think it also had to do with the fact that the lines lifted verbatim from Palin's Katie Couric interview were the funniest part of the SNL parody of said interview.

I get angrier the more I think about this column. It seems to me that a useful conservative point of view might be "Things were better for America back when people could man up and admit the mistakes they made were their own fault, instead of insisting for months afterward while staring straight up at the blue sky that the sky isn't blue." Palin was an awful vice presidential candidate. She brought the scorn she did upon herself by being such an awful vice presidential candidate. The only lesson to glean from her treatment by the press and resignation is that if you want to be a vice presidential candidate, it helps a great deal to be at least remotely self-aware and capable of feigning competence, if not competent.

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It's so fun watching the staunch few that still cling to Family Values Republicanism slowly realize that their only constituents (and sometimes they themselves) are frothing, uneducated, crazies.

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Yeah, and Obama's election totally doesn't suggest this at all.

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