David Frum, who has come a long way since he wrote this book, is one of the most thoughtful conservative commentators around. He's been criticising McCain's campaign for a while, particularly for the choice of Palin - and upsetting plenty of his less intelligent colleagues at the National Review's Corner blog in the process. Here he issues a withering rebuke:
Do my correspondents (and now my Corner colleagues) truly believe that - but for my pitiful media and social ambitions - nobody in America would have noticed that Sarah Palin cannot speak three coherent consecutive words about finance or economics?...
...It's flattering to be told that my eagerness to clink glasses with the Washington social elite is the driving cause behind the shriveling public support for the Alaska governor. Flattering - but not very convincing. Tens of millions of people have tuned in to watch Sarah Palin field questions from Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric, and then to share a stage with Joe Biden. If Palin's public support is now collapsing, it is her own doing.
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