So there's little that can be done to remedy this shocking, arrogant betrayal before the election, eh? OK, then I propose we do the next best thing: get the Obama campaign, the progressive 527s and the media to make an issue out of it. Here's the key phrase to use again and again:

"What is Sarah Palin trying to hide?"

I for one will be contacting the Obama campaign, my local newspapers, and groups like MoveOn and Democracy for America today to insist that they begin fundraising and producing ads, speeches, etc. asking this question and demanding answers from Palin and her GOP cronies in Alaska. Even though she'll continue to stonewall, sufficient relentless pressure could turn this affair into such a liability that she'll be forced to capitulate. Or more likely, since Georgia Bush seems cut from the same cloth as The Worst President Ever, she'll stick out her jaw and refuse to budge, therefore reinforcing the idea that she has something to hide.

After all, the cover-up is always more damaging than the crime. Get with it, Salonocrats. Let's make Palin wish she'd never accepted the VP call.

It's a bad idea to take yourself off your meds. Go back on them and let the grownups who have constructive things to say play here. Free Republic is holding a space for you.

@Jim White, I like it. Some ass-kicking demonstration and civil disobedience is called for. How about organizing our very own Sarah Palin Bullshit Exposing Squad?

I'll bring the card tables?

Not. Related. To. Sarah. Palin. Does. Not. Compute.

Pain! Cannot comprehend news not about election!

I was trying to inject a little levity and point out that War Room has been all-Palin, all the time. Hard to do that without mentioning the woman's name.

Lighten up, willya?

Is there some reason that you can't wait for two days before the election? Maybe it's because unlike supporters of Obama, who believe that a president should be as educated and intelligent as possible, you're in the McBush camp: edumacation is overrated and intelligence is misunderestimated.

Let's bottom line this, kids. We have a promising but largely unknown quantity in Obama, versus an experienced but known flip-flopping Bush disciple who's emotionally unstable and in questionable health in McCain. Given the choice between a disastrous known quantity and an uncertain one that offers at least the potential for improvement, I'll take the unknown every single time.

...the election is Nov. 4, dumbass.

Missus Palin's approval numbers are dropping like a paralyzed falcon. Her Troopergate cover-up is starting to dominate the blogs. The refusal of the McCain campaign to let this human insult to the democratic process appear freely in front of the non-Fox media without a script is pissing off the MSM to the point where they are boycotting coverage.

Yeah, I'd say Sarah Palin has about run her course. She was the new thing on the scene, and that always makes for a big bounce. She'll still appeal to the delusional, white trash Christian nutcase contingent, but women in particular are beginning to see her selection as the bit of contemptuous pandering it was. She's going to sink McCain, especially when she gets her clock cleaned in the the debate by Joe Biden.

And for anyone who's offended by my use of "white trash," I don't give a shit. It's time we started calling these reason-challenged, mouth-breathing hypocritical Religious Wrong motherfuckers what they are: the cancer of an informed electoral system. Hell, I'd halfway support going back to what the Framers had in mind and letting only the landed and educated vote. Democracy is too fragile to be trusted to Joe Sixpack, who won't vote for Obama because "I heard he was one of them Muslins."

Didn't Howard Dean in 2006 prove that the 50 State Strategy actually does work?

Do you really believe that? I, for one, can falsify your statement immediately: I know 6 Republicans who have told me personally that they plan to vote for Obama because they are afraid that McCain would simply rubber-stamp the same disastrous Bush policies. Five are women, which should tell you something about the Palin effect on smart, educated women.

So right there, we're not at 100%. The fundamentalist Xtian contingent of the GOP may vote as a bloc, but moderates and old-line fiscal conservatives are pissed, and many of them are coming otu in support of Obama.

Actually, I liked it. The "Talk Out of His Express" has a nice ring to it. Made me snicker.

I love how McLame agreed on the joint statement, then tried to undercut Obama by being first off the line. His handlers must dread getting up in the morning to see what damage this senile, angry man has done to his campaign that they will be called upon to repair. Again.

John McCain, titular head of the "You damned kids and your crazy rock music!" party.

...pretty please, let them move Biden vs. Palin up and change the format to a more open one. Without a month to rehearse her bullshit, empty-headed talking points, Georgia Bush will look even more hopeless and maniacal than she will with the prep time.

Pretty, pretty, please? At least, Obama camp, make the suggestion so the McLame campaign can backpedal desperately.

One of the most important things for Obama right now is to contrast with the panic, desperation and rudderlessness of McCain by appearing calm, cool and measured. Americans know that rushing to war was a disaster, and that rushing to bail out the biggest criminals in our economy will be one as well. Obama's smart to stay positive and chill on the issue. Let McLame run around trying to get photo ops and changing tack every second.