I Wish We Could Let It Go

Really, I wish we could. I wish we could just let Sarah Palin go back into Alaskan obscurity and never have to speak her name again, at least not until either a) she runs for President in 2012 or b) she makes an appearance on "Dancing With the Stars".

But she's not going without a parting "WTF?"



According to Fox News, normally a great supporter of Palin, she not only did not realize that Africa is a continent, not a country, but she didn't know which countries are part of NAFTA. Here's a hint--there's only two others besides us, and one of them BORDERS ALASKA!

If McCain put her on the ticket knowing all of this, then he really didn't put "country first."

On a more serious note, after speaking with some Republican friends today, it's become pretty apparent what a split there is within the Republican Party on the national level. You have people like my friends, folks from New York and Chicago who follow the neoconservative lines on foreign policy and who think Obama is going to take all their money, but don't really care much about social issues, or in fact lean more to the left on them. They fully blame Palin for the loss and now want her to just go away. On the other hand, you have people in Tennessee and the rest of the South who see her as Our Lady of Wasilia, a conservative prophetess who can do no wrong. The responsiblity for losing the election rests on McCain for not being conservative enough. I'll be interested whether they'll figure out a way to unite around a common cause besides just mutual hatred for President Obama, or whether they'll continue to cannabalize each other.

For now, I'm content to just watch, and hope I never have to speak the name of Sarah Palin again.