Don't Let the Door...

Today is the train wreck from Wasilla's last day in public office. Anyone who has read this blog for awhile knows that I'm no fan of Sarah "I'm Not a Quitter" Palin.

I'll try my best to keep the invective to a minimum but damn could McCain have made a worse choice? She embodies every fraking thing that is so vapid, inane and counter-intellectual about right-wing Repug-licans. And McCain...well don't even get me started on him.

Andrew Sullivan sums it up far better than I can...

What happened last fall was a warning sign to all of us about how corrupt and cynical the GOP, McCain and the MSM are. They colluded in such a way that this unstable, erratic, know-nothing beauty queen could actually have been president of the United States.

The Republican establishment has long condescended to the pro-life, anti-gay, de facto soclialist, de jure capitalist heartland voters - and they cynically believed they had found a formula to get them to vote for McCain on the ground of pure class resentment and sex appeal to older white males. The convention was a surreal implosion. I agree with Richard Cohen this morning:

Naming Palin to the GOP ticket -- a top-down choice by McCain -- was the most reckless decision any national politician has made in the longest time, and while it certainly says something about McCain, it says even more about his party. It has lost its mind.

The reason we need to get to the truth of what happened is that these people nearly took this country off a cliff. They need to be held accountable. They need to be removed from their positions of power. We cannot move on until they are. And John McCain should retire from public life. After that decision, nothing he says can be taken seriously on the national or international stage.

He's right, these folks need to be held accountable and removed from power. In the mean time, Palin will cash in on her 15 minutes of fame thanks to Fox News, book deals, and fairyland speeches about creationism and the myth of global warming.

So I bid farewell to Palin, goodbye and good riddance. Next?