I wanted to quote a line or two from Frank Rich in his editorial at the New York Times yesterday about our good friend from the north, Ms. Palin, but his piece was so angry and so full of information that I’m going to give you acouple of paragraphs of it:

We still don’t know a lot about Palin except that she’s better at delivering a speech than McCain and that she defends her own pregnant daughter’s right to privacy even as she would have the government intrude to police the reproductive choices of all other women. Most of the rest of the biography supplied by her and the McCain camp is fiction.

She didn’t say “no thanks” to the “Bridge to Nowhere” until after Congress had already abandoned it but given Alaska a blank check for $223 million in taxpayers’ money anyway. Far from rejecting federal pork, she hired lobbyists to secure her town a disproportionate share of earmarks ($1,000 per resident in 2002, 20 times the per capita average in other states). Though McCain claimed “she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities,” she has never issued a single command as head of the Alaska National Guard. As for her “executive experience” as mayor, she told her hometown paper in Wasilla, Alaska, in 1996, the year of her election: “It’s not rocket science. It’s $6 million and 53 employees.” Her much-advertised crusade against officials abusing their office is now compromised by a bipartisan ethics investigation into charges that she did the same.

How long before we learn she never shot a moose?

What happened to John McCain? It seems to me that one day someone will write a play or a movie about his fall from grace, from the one Republican that I liked, respected and yes, might not has been horrified if he found his way to the presidency.

But those days are long, long gone. It started with his insistance that Saddam Hussein was responsible for the antharax attacks and 9/11 and has led down this place where the once pro-choice, envirmentally concerned war hero has become a party tool, who has become anti-choice, anti-enviroment, and has apparently lost sight of anything except te potential prize of the Oval Office.

I wonder what he thinks about when he’s not memorizing new opinions.

It just makes me sad.