A short post about Sarah Palin

I kind of do not know what to say. Analysis closer to the ground, more in the beltway, and far more intelligent than I am have already started examining what is going on starting Friday. As of this morning Ruth Marcus has an excellent column in the Washington Post, and there are great notes from Nate Silver and Ezra Klein.

I am a slightly left of center guy, but I will have to say that Palin sort of irked me. The thing that I never got was exactly who she was and where she stood. This recent situation has not really helped all that much. Her odd actions, I think, led to some of the problems for her party last year.

That said, unlike some of my more liberal friends, I do not hate Palin. I sort of just find her weird, if frightening. I sort of find her incredibly unpredictable, and I think Friday's events just further pushed that idea. See Nate Silver's blog post on why liberals hate Palin.