Fit to be Ignored

Sarah is one, John is the other. If McCain can still say with a straight face that, "I know she would make an excellent President," he's doing more than just being loyal to the woman he put in the spotlight, he's doing the CYA of all time -- covering his own ass for having made the disastrous choice of her as his running mate.

If I ever thought Sen. McCain might be relevant again, or ever felt those who questioned his past performance were churlish, this interview puts those notions to rest, while turning my stomach:

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Make me vomit, John. The truth about Palin is that she's never going to be qualified to be President because she couldn't handle the job of governing a state of just 627,000 people and enough oil production tax revenue to give each of those citizens a dividend of $3,200 this year. In Internet terms: MASSIVE FAIL:

In late March, a senior official from the Republican Governors Association headed for Alaska on a secret mission. Sarah Palin was beset by such political and personal turmoil that some powerful supporters determined an intervention was needed to pull her governorship, and her national future, back from the brink.

The official, the association’s executive director, Nick Ayers, arrived with a memorandum containing firm counsel, according to several people who know its details: Make a long-term schedule and stick to it, have staff members set aside ample and inviolable family time to replenish your spirits, and build a coherent home-state agenda that creates jobs and ensures re-election.

Like so much of the advice sent Ms. Palin’s way by influential supporters, it appeared to be happily received and then largely discarded, barely slowing what was, in retrospect, an inexorable march toward the resignation she announced 10 days ago.

As the time between her quitting (emulating, perhaps, rightwing idol Richard Nixon) and the next vote of any import increases, she will become more and more of an embarrassment to "legitimate" Republican politicans. I believe that even a book deal or Fox show will fail to wipe the stain of FAIL and she might even have difficulties sustaining a television engagement anywhere other than a religious channel due to her implosion, which is surely deeper than the mainstream media lets on. Her future is with the hardcore anti-abortion right. She should become (figure)head of Operation Rescue and reap those bucks. After all:

Hope for the intervention’s success soon faded. Despite advice to stick close to home and focus on an Alaska agenda, the governor accepted an invitation to attend an anti-abortion dinner in Indiana in April, even though the state budget was hanging in the balance in the Legislature.

When Tom Wright, chief of staff for the speaker of the Alaska House, suggested that the governor would catch heat for leaving, Ms. Palin stormed into his office and, according to a person familiar with the conversation, “proceeded to ream him out.”

I guess chief of staff Wright won't have Sarah Palin to kick him around anymore.