Dan Quayle in a Bun

Too many Sarah Palin storylines to keep up with. Will she survive the week? My prediction is she will, and there will be the requisite backlash-against-the-backlash stories by reporters who suddenly discover that she has some positive qualities (as if Alaska voters were all dopes).

But what bothers me is the knee-jerk joy of conservatives because of her constellation of "values" - anti-choice, pro-gun, global warming denier, oil business panderer - which are a). egregious by themselves and b). show no evidence of independent thought, character, or expertise. We've reached a point where the things you believe are more important than what you do, or are.

Let's remember that for all the ridicule Quayle deservedly got, G. H. W. Bush won in 1988.