I Ain’t Nothing But Tired

Just home, showered, simultaneously exhausted and restless. And I’m kind of relieved that I no longer work for TPMmuckraker, because the TPM fam-lay is going to be birddogging the hell out of this whole Sarah-Palin-had-a-state-trooper-fired-for-personal-retribution thing, and I’m thinking too much about Afghanistan right now. TPM will do great work on this, me predicteth, as Eli already has on the motherblog. Also worrisome for McCain-Palin: Hillary voters, like my friend Erica, find the pick condescending:

Instead I can only think that it’s John McCain’s low opinion of women that led him to make this choice. He’s chosen a woman with little to no experience – over many more qualified candidates – in a desperate attempt to sway women voters he’s otherwise scared off. McCain, what do you take us for, an idiot?

But the most damaging thing of all is that over the last 12-odd hours, Palin has become an internet joke. Check out this Twitter feed. There are few things more destructive to a politician than ridicule, and already people are telling you that Palin "once killed a man for writing ‘w00t, twitter trend!’" It’s not even been a full day since the pick was announced and already Palin appears to be the 2008 version of Harriet Miers, except this time around the internet is meaner.