Just When You Thought Politicians Couldn't Be More Shallow and Self-Serving

Game Change is promising to be the political book of the year. Of course, 60 Minutes focused its segment on Sarah Palin's alleged lack of knowledge regarding anything, as related by McCain campaign chief Steve Schmidt. But what's really hilarious is that Schmidt, after mocking Palin as an idiot, thinks she helped McCain...

And Schmidt says, on balance, Palin helped the ticket.

"I believe, had she not been on the ticket our margin of defeat would’ve been greater than it would’ve been otherwise," he said.

(hat tip: Tom Maguire) This is ridiculous. I don't believe Palin is an idiot, but I also didn't nominate her to Veep. If you did believe her to be one, then putting her in position to be one heartbeat away from the Presidency is a bad idea, even if you learn it after the fact. And before the Democrats get gleeful about that, keep in mind that they wanted to put John friggin' Edwards in the same spot four years earlier. As David Frum notes, the Dems kept their mouth shut about Edwards when he was running for President and under consideration for Veep/AG in 2008.

No wonder politics makes people cynical.