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So as the VP debate draws nearer and Sarah Palin's Saturday Night Live video becomes the most popular thing that has ever happened on my Facebook page by a considerable margin, Palin seems poised on the edge of becoming perceived as a national farce.

The NYT seems to be in general agreement that the stakes for McP seem to be getting higher, and when you have conservatives of no less stature than David Frum saying things like:

“I think she has pretty thoroughly — and probably irretrievably — proven that she is not up to the job of being president of the United States,” David Frum, a former speechwriter for President Bush who is now a conservative columnist, said in an interview. “If she doesn’t perform well, then people see it."

So...yeah. It's hard to imagine anyone offering a more biting critique than that. Guess that vetting thing kinda does matter after all.

*Update*

It also emerges that apparently there are unaired clips from the Katie Couric interview, including a moment when we discover that Palin can't name - not can't explain, but can't even name- any supreme court decisions other than Roe V. Wade. See this blurb here. So there may even be a chance that more pseudo-comedy is to follow at periodic intervals.