I won't say that I ever liked Sarah Palin, but I thought that the attacks against her were unfair. I didn't think she was as bad as Joe Biden, who is a blunder machine. And some of the nastiness against her is due to the fact that she is an unrefined woman from rural America, which is the kind of person I tend to like. So I had some sympathy for her.
Not anymore. In fact, I can't stand her. In a lot of ways she's like Rush Limbaugh or Al Sharpton; people who value fame and recognition over solving problems. I think she'd rather get a lot of press than actually do some good. And her resignation as Governor was a joke.
She was unpolished and uninformed when she was a VP candidate. She had an excuse-- her only experience was as Governor of Alaska. What's her excuse now? She's had plenty of time to read books, reflect, and come up with thoughtful answers to America's problems. She hasn't done that because she'd rather snipe at Obama in front of a large television audience.
She is an embarrassment.
