Michael Ledeen shows impressive resistance to reality:
The continued trashing of Sarah Palin — IMHO the most qualified and by far the most exciting candidate of the four — is very disappointing, and the rash of unseemly whining from the McCain camp just shows once again why so many of us were depressed when he won the nomination.
Italics mine. Gabriel Malor has the same affliction. But they’re missing the point. Palin was a farce; but McCain was a bigger farce for picking her. It’s his responsibility, not hers. He was a total cynic who revealed his decision-making was as ludicrous as it was reckless. In that one decision, he disqualified himself from the presidency.
The Dish 