November 07, 2008 09:47 AM UTC

In Defense of Sarah Palin

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• by: ThillyWabbit

( – promoted by Colorado Pols)

It should now be clear to everyone across the political spectrum that Sarah Palin was a disastrous pick for the VP slot. Most of us saw that before the election, which is why Palin went quickly from having superstar status to being a serious drag on the McCain ticket. But the evidence coming out in the days after the election of her profligacy, lack of basic knowledge about things like NAFTA and Africa that a C-student in American Government would know, and reports of her serious attitude problems, it should be utterly clear to even hyper-Republican partisans that Palin was the worst possible choice.

But here’s the problem: all of this evidence now coming to light is coming from hyper-Republican partisans. In fact, it’s coming from the same partisans who picked her in the first place, in a bizarre attempt to cover their own backsides. These are smart people; they should understand that in a circular firing squad, the backside is not the side they should be worried about.

It’s not Sarah Palin’s fault that John McCain picked a “Wasilla hillbilly looting Neiman Marcus from coast to coast.” If you don’t want a Wasilla hillbilly, you don’t hire one to be the VP candidate. Sarah Palin is who she is. She didn’t become who she is over the last nine weeks.

Choosing the Vice President is the single most undemocratic step in our electoral process. The VP candidate is not vetted by the voters in any kind of primary campaign. It’s a step that should be completed with care and precision, and it wasn’t.

Sarah Palin was John McCain’s choice. John McCain should rein the people who would trash talk her as the reason he lost. She may be, but they picked her. She may be a corrupt moron, but she was their corrupt moron. Pulling a slash-and-burn on her now serves no purpose. It’s not going to save anybody’s reputation. They should be looking at themselves, not at her, for answers about their colossal failure.