She is rather insulting to the feminist ideal, isn’t she? That said, look what she’s done so far. She has served as a huge distraction from John McCain. She’s been able to say things McCain now knows would be risky for him to say—all that stuff about Ayers and questioning Biden’s sincerity about running with someone he voted in opposition to in the Senate and so forth—and for a few weeks, everyone was talking about Sarah Palin and wondering just what was McCain thinking?
We have, of course, seen this before. Spiro Agnew was the first I remember of second bananas who could fling turds at the opposition while the pres himself floated above the fray. …