“ The ultimate irony of Palin’s rise is that it has occurred at a moment when Americans may finally have grown weary of pseudo-populism — when intelligence, judgment, diligence and seriousness are once again valued, simply because we are in such deep trouble.”
— Joe Conason writing on Salon.com a year ago.
The real irony is that most Americans were never really ready to embrace intelligence, judgment, diligence and seriousness after all.
