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Coming to terms with dodging a bullet
Political Animal — ... both right, of course. Palin was a ridiculous candidate on a failed ticket. Her candidacy was a national embarrassment, and insult to our political system. And yet, like a car crash, it's hard to turn away. At first blush, it's hard to put one's finger on why, exactly. Maybe we haven't quite gotten out of "campaign mode." Or perhaps some are thinking ahead, keeping an eye on Palin with an expectation that she'll seek national office again fairly soon. But I think it's more than that. Kevin noted this afternoon, "We've simply never seen someone so completely unmoored from the ...

Palin Rendered In Verse
Balloon Juice — Let it roll over you. Gah! Nothing specific right now. Sitting here in these chairs that I’m going to be proposing but in working with these governors who again on the front lines are forced to and it’s our privileged obligation to find solutions to the challenges facing our own states every day being held accountable, not being just one of many just casting votes or voting present every once in a while, we don’t get away with that. ...

Sarah Palin Cannot Move On
Comments from Left Field — ... It’s not just about the depth of the error, though. It’s also about the nature of the error: ...

Irresponsibility
Political Animal — ... post that Steve quoted earlier, and even more with Kevin Drum : "I continue to think that the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate represents the breaking of a consensual cultural barrier far more fundamental than most people realize. It's not just that she was inexperienced (Spiro Agnew and John Edwards weren't much more experienced than Palin when they ran for VP) but that she was -- obviously, transparently, completely -- uninterested in and uninformed about national policy at nearly every level. We've simply never seen someone so completely unmoored from ...

Irresponsibility
Obsidian Wings — ... follow the two-term presidency of another individual utterly out of his depth in national government is particularly troubling. 46 percent of Americans voted for the possibility of this blank slate as president because she somehow echoed their own sense of religious or cultural "identity". Until we figure out how this happened, we will not be able to prevent it from happening again. And we have to find a way to prevent this from recurring." And even more with Kevin Drum: "I continue to think that the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain's ...

The Emperor Has No Clothes
The Anonymous Liberal — I share the frustration of folks like Andrew Sullivan, Kevin Drum, and Hilzoy about the way Sarah Palin has been covered in the media. Never in the history of national politics has a candidate's manifest unsuitability for higher office been so apparent. As Kevin Drum put it: I continue to think that the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate represents the breaking of a consensual cultural barrier far more fundamental than most people realize. It's not just that she was inexperienced (Spiro Agnew and John Edwards weren't much more ...

Why Palin Still Matters, Ctd.
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Drum agrees: Despite all the grief she's gotten, I continue to think that the selection of Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate represents the breaking of a consensual cultural barrier far more fundamental than most people realize. It's not just that she was inexperienced (Spiro Agnew and John Edwards weren't much more experienced than Palin when they ran for VP) but that she was — obviously, transparently, completely — uninterested in and uninformed about national policy at nearly every level. We've simply never seen someone so completely unmoored from ...

The empress has no clothes
Firedoglake — ... Sarah Palin was the mayor of a city with a population slightly larger than my high school (Go Warhawks!). She has spent two years as Governor of a state with half the population of my city (Tourists go home...but leave your daughters!). She speaks using chunklets of buzz words and phrases that are entirely unrelated to each other, as in : ...