Sarah Palin has had her 15 minutes of fame in the Republican Party and will now be banished to the frozen backwater she came from. There will be no expanded role in the party, no 2012. Sarah Palin’s name will be heard from now on only in harsh whispers inside closed Republican campaign offices, as volunteers fold up the chairs and disconnect the phones.
The lies and ineptitudes exposed during her stint as VP candidate are strong documentary evidence of her incompetence and double-dealing. But the dam is starting to break on the reservoir of pent up anger felt by the McCain staffers who had to put up with her for 2 months and 6 days. No more smiling tightly through gritted teeth while extolling her virtues and repeating the "executive experience" mantra. The stories will come gushing out, eclipsing the deadly trickle just begun, and creating a flood of evidence revealing her egotism, pettiness, arrogance, ambition, and most damning of all, her abysmal ignorance regarding the country she claims to be so passionate about.
Perhaps as she sits in her fancy governor’s office in nowhere-land, she will one day realize that "cute as a button" doesn’t make up for "not smarter than a 5th grader." She may finally come to understand that substance always trumps style, and breeding will out. And lastly, she may actually comprehend the fact that the kiss of death to her political career was the day she said yes to John McCain.
Stay warm, Sarah, but stay there. We won’t miss you one bit.