In Vanity Fair’s recent piece on Sarah Palin, former McCain aides assert that “they worked their tails off to try to elect as vice president of the United States someone who, by mid-October, they believed for certain was nowhere near ready for the job, and might never be.”  Left wing talking heads are having a field day with the quote.

Now, I’m not going to argue whether Palin will or will not ever be ready for the job.  Honestly, I’m not sure.  I’ll only say that a group of people who failed so completely to present John McCain as “ready for the job” really have no room to go casting aspersions.

Given the way McCain’s aides ran his disastrously poor campaign, it seems clear that they have little or no idea what it takes to do the job, and even less of an idea how to present it to the American people.

In the long term, they may be right, maybe Palin never will be ready.  For now, though, the anti Palin rhetoric coming from McCain’s handlers sounds like a whiny case of sour grapes. 

If I were one of the people responsible for the Arizona Senator’s monumental loss, I’d be looking for someone to blame too.  God forbid anyone point the finger at me…

-Robert Laurie