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Sorry, but as much as I detest Sarah Palin I can't see the point of this article. It seems to me that it could be written about any politician. Where are all these brave, altruistic, loyal-even-if-it-destroys-my-career politicians with which to contrast her? It seems to me that Obama has dropped a few inconvenient supporters along the way himself when it proved expedient (anyone remember Jeremiah Wright?).
Let's beat McCain & Palin. Let's mop up the floor with them. But we don't need to grasp at straws like this to do that; there are plenty of serious, legitimate brushes with which to tar Palin without negatively comparing her to some idealized uber-politician who has never existed on the Left or the Right. We'd do better to trumpet her real flaws rather than winkling out these petty political machinations of which our own champions are equally guilty.
