None too soon and we'll hope it's not too late.

All of Obama's crap will be de-funded, thus defeated.

California has already passed cap and trade.

Putting all donut businesses out of business.

Just think how much we save on healthcare.

From people who won't get fat eating donuts...duh.

. . . you forgot to mention the McNasty...John McCain.

It was McCain who allowed Carribou Barbie out of her cage. McCain is ultimately responsible for the choice of Palin and for the frenzied, hateful tone of the campaign.

This country dodged a monumental bullet last November, no thanks to McCain. May he rot in a hell of his own making.

Well, Goedel, Obama isn't the subject here -- Sarah Palin is.

I know her fans want to distract us from these many questions we have about her, but screaming hysterically about "Marxist" Obama won't deter us.

"Writing about fitness for the presidency, why do so many journalists avoid a real consideration of Barack Obama's intelligence?"

Well, Goedel, Obama isn't the subject here -- Sarah Palin is.

I know her fans want to distract them from the many questions they have about her, but screaming hysterically about "Marxist" Obama won't do it.

Ahhh, such venom, such vitrol. Amazing that so much can be inspired by so little.

I thought Peggy Noonan's blistering and precisely worded article recently published was one of the most accurate on the subject of Palin.

I truly do think Palin's confident narcissism allows her to drive through vast sections of Alaskan Tundra with not much awareness of the reality of the issues at hand. Already, within days, the issue of "millions of dollars spent on attorneys instead of education...." has been debunked, not by one, but by several articles. Will this faze the Lipstick Pitbull? I doubt it, because, as Noonan so pithily notes, self-awareness is utterly lacking with Palin.

Ultimately, she is a creature of circumstance, created by the moment and by hysterical need for a game-changer by the McCain - and, it certainly did, as the Obama campaign silently waited it out for the McCain campaign to implode from its own incompetence and lack of vision and clarity...... Had she turned out to be a secret policy wonk, history might have been different. Turns out, her most exceptional talent is defining her perception of her own talent.

Sadly, the focus on Palin detracts from the very real necessity felt by some Republicans to rebuild the party. Is that to be a party that celebrates a quality of Republican self-delusion not seen since the Goldwater days? Or will more sane heads persist? Kristol or Noonan? And, with the Stepford-Wife-like quality of Mitt Romney prevail in the cacophony of Republican voices?

Or, perhaps Noonan is a Barry Soetoro-lovin'Marxist.

I mean, how else can Palin's supporters explain Ronald Reagan's speech writer and greatest supporter, a woman with solid conservative credentials, turning on their Sarah by writing:

In television interviews she was out of her depth in a shallow pool. She was limited in her ability to explain and defend her positions, and sometimes in knowing them. She couldn't say what she read because she didn't read anything. She was utterly unconcerned by all this and seemed in fact rather proud of it: It was evidence of her authenticity. She experienced criticism as both partisan and cruel because she could see no truth in any of it. She wasn't thoughtful enough to know she wasn't thoughtful enough. Her presentation up to the end has been scattered, illogical, manipulative and self-referential to the point of self-reverence. "I'm not wired that way," "I'm not a quitter," "I'm standing up for our values." I'm, I'm, I'm.

You wish we could move on. So do I. But I don't think Sarah Palin is capable of going away and leaving the media alone.

As this article makes painfully clear, Repugs are all about just winning, and actual governing is for chumps (gee, why should I continue as Governor as Alaska, it's no fun, it's hard, and I can make millions winking and blathering). After 8 painful years of "leadership" by a narcissistic, impulsive, ethically and intellectually challenged twit, Palin's influence would have been catastrophic. All of her statements and speeches are the same, "a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".

Frivolous lawsuits continuing and ongoing are the reason Sarah quit.

It is a financial drain for the state and for Sarah.

She has to pay to defend herself from this garbage.

Pathetic and reckless spending from Washington is something Sarah can now attack on a national level using her new freedom.

Mid-term elections should reflect this recklessness.

I haven't seen any report that has mentioned something that seems so obvious to me -- that McCain had 6 months lead time to select a VP and do the necessary vetting, but instead, he waited until the last minute and based his VP choice (in part) on what Obama's choice was. When faced with the conservatives' rejection of Lieberman, he gambled. Sarah Palin was presented to him as "high risk, high reward" and that was all he needed to hear. He's a gambler through and through; he is wired to take risks. But this was the country's future that he was willing to gamble, and frankly there ought to be more public outrage about the real and present danger that he put this country in.

The most elementary vetting of Sarah Palin would have revealed her for what she really is -- beautiful and charismatic, but incredibly flawed, narcissistic and vindictive, and a con artist. She would have been a disaster for this country. Thankfully, she has resigned, saying it's all about Alaska -- but the truth is that it has been, is and always will be all about Sarah. Hopefully the country will have the good sense to keep her away from positions of power in the future. In the meantime, it would be an act of patriotism if someone in the McCain campaign would reveal all that they found out about her.