reality and its other among conservative pundits

My husband called it first. Then, a brilliant, 75-year-old scholar and raconteur confessed to me over wine: ‘I'm sexually attracted to her. I don't care that she knows nothing.’

Finally, writer Robert Draper closed the file on the Sarah Palin mystery with a devastating article in this Sunday's New York Times Magazine: ‘The Making (and Remaking) of McCain.’

McCain didn't know her. He didn't vet her. His campaign team had barely an impression. In a bar one night, Draper asked one of McCain's senior advisers: ‘Leaving aside her actual experience, do you know how informed Governor Palin is about the issues of the day?’

The adviser thought a moment and replied: ‘No, I don't know.’

Blame the sycamore tree.

more from the National Review Online here. (via Daily Dish)

Kathryn Jean Lopez's weird denunciation of her own columnist here.

more explanation of the in-fighting and implosion here.

Comments

[MP]

Is that really Palin? Doesn't quite look like her.

Amusing post, however. Thanks

[Kirk Petersen]

Thanks for the linky love, Morgan Meis!

[Evan]

That's Sabine Ehrenfeld, but don't worry...you're not the first blog to make that mistake.

[PeteChapman]

So that's not Sarah Palin. Boy, am I relieved, for awhile there I was afraid that I might be in agreement with a certain brilliant, seventy-five year old scholar...

[Jared]

So this confirms that politics is showbiz for ugly people.