Let’s see – you’re the unsilent minority that still thinks going to war with Iraq was The Right Thing To Do and torturing prisoners is A-OK. You’re not just proud of your country’s sins, you wear them on your sleeve and they are to a very great extent what this website exists for in the first place. The fact that you, and Sarah Palin, don’t recognize them as such is a testament to your own moral idiocy; the comment itself was spot-on.

Palin repeatedly credited herself for having balanced Alaska’s state budget. But in a state with a tiny population and buckets of oil revenue emptying into state coffers how difficult is that?

This woman who felt herself qualified to sit just one 72 year old heartbeat away from the Presidency repeatedly demonstrated her lack of even a basic grasp of all the major issues facing our nation. In multiple interviews she responded to questions on the economy or foreign affairs by babbling incoherently. Her rambling answers were so ludicrous that Saturday Night Live’s Tina Fey opted for simply repeating verbatim what Palin had said for one of her skits, having come to the conclusion that she couldn’t possibly write anything more ridiculous or comical. So then Palin defenders cried ‘fowl’ and criticized the critics–for what, using Palin’s own words to expose her lack of comprehension? This is serious business here, a vice president might at any time become leader of the free world. He or she needs some comprehension of the important issues of the day. Palin simply doesn’t qualify, unless you think that shooting wolves from a helicopter is adequate training for the Oval Office. The fact that the GOP and American Conservatives have rallied around this political lightweight as their next best hope of an electoral comeback shows just how demoralized the party has become. Reality check, folks: Palin already lost you one election, don’t give her the chance to do it again.

Would she lose the next election, you ask? You betcha!

Many republicans like myself found Palin a disgraceful, unqualified, pandering populist who was unfit to be one coronary from the nation’s highest office. Many republican pundits said as much themselves. The dems didnt even need to crucify her – she did quite well on her own in virtually every tv interview she gave. The master narrative you lay out here Bill falls pretty flat when you start and end with your main character – she isnt worth nearly this many words.

Is it not possible to raise the half-million or more she needs for the legal fees to kick the vicious leftists in their teeth (metaphorically speaking, of course) and render these kinds of lawfare ineffective?

And thanks for the great article, Bill!