Palin the Butt for McCain

The post-election reaction is going in different directions. While 52% of the voting public is marginally rejoicing, or watching the news with expectation, the Republican professionals (politicians, those in the media), are spending a lot of time pointing their fingers at each other. Reputations and future careers are in jeopardy as McCain and Palin seek to redefine their own failure, and as the wider Republican world seeks to determine on whom to pin its hopes for the future.  Those suggesting that Palin is anything close to being the future of the Republican party are completely out of their minds, but Palin seems to be her own number one fan (and assuming, as she says, that God gets on her side as well).  

Palin has been coming out to the media now, but still doing soft interviews on not very important topics, defending herself. The more we read, the more we see the disconnect between McCain and Palin, and the casual marriage of convenience between McCain's desperation and Palin's ambition.

ABC news reports that Palin did not think Obama and Biden would win by the margin they did, and she credits the money, among other things, for that win. Never does she reflect inward and question her own role and lack of preparation.

Palin told NBC she was disappointed that she was not allowed to speak on election night in Phoenix. She and a team of speechwriters had prepared remarks for her to deliver, but at the last minute McCain aides decided it would not be in keeping with tradition for the vice presidential candidate to speak before the candidate's concession speech.
"I thought even if it was unprecedented, so what. Geez, let's do something a bit out of the box there. But those were the type of shots that were called that I didn't have control over," Palin told Lauer.

One might think that the incredible amounts of money that Obama raised, combined with a popular vote win on par with Reagan's first win, should be a clear suggestion to Palin and others that the ideas behind the candidate are what attract support.
 
In Palin land, the assumption is that if more money was available, then they might have won. But the reality is that money could have been available, had they pushed ideas worth supporting. They never engaged a wide enough section of the voting populace with reality. We remember Ayers and Islam more than McCain's economic policy.  We see the shaky artiface of our current engagements in Afghanistan and Iraq more than McCain's ideas on moving those situations into a better light.
 
But she is home now in the comfort of Wassilla, and talking up a storm. She is preparing to address the Governor's Association, although one wonders what she would really have to offer of value.
 
Lacking wisdom and humility, onward she goes. That she could say what she said about Obama, and then, flip on a dime and move right on to making more moose stew without taking a vow of silence for a moment of reflection, speaks volumes about her and the people who support her.