Peter,

Since my criticism of the Palin pick is that she is relatively unexperienced, then I would be happier with someone more experienced. Discuss among yourselves. My more important point was my second–what the Palin pick showed about us. We’re six years into the modern Thirty Years War, and conservatives are behaving like they’re at a YAF convention, c. 1967. Much is excusable, and even necessary, in times of youth and powerlessness. But we have already seen the two tallest buildings in NYC go, and our first, second and twentieth priorities should be to crush the serpent with our heels.

Gov. Palin may show the right stuff; I hope so. But the other party has already nominated a tyro and a blowhard. Why are conservatives thrilled to have thrown our own question mark into the mix?