When the history is written about the downfall of the Republican Party, will the pick of Sarah Palin (Idiot) as VP be seen as the very bottom?

It wasn't the pick that was the death of the GOP. Even though the pick was a colossal, dangerous blunder.

No, it was the lock-step, brainless embrace by the right wing die-hards that was the death blow.

If the adults in the GOP had stood up to a patently unqualified idiot as their #2, like they had rightly stood against Bush's stupid pick of Harriet Miers, then the recovery of the GOP could have begun that day. Throw McCain and his pick overboard, and start over.

There were a couple of voices on the right who stood against the pick, but not many. No, like good little Nazis, they got in a nice tight little line. And they jumped. Right off the cliff.

So 2008 will be seen as the year the Republican Party died. They controlled the entire government just a few short months ago - the Presidency, the Congress and the Supreme Court.

And then they lost it all.

There is good news in this - Democracy works. Democracy is beautiful. Democracy roots out the incompetent and the corrupt. Democracy is ugly. But Democracy works.

So goodbye Sarah Palin. Goodbye Karl Rove. Goodbye George Bush and Dick Cheney and Alberto Gonzalez and John McCain and Donald Rumsfield. Goodbye Republican Party (in its present form).

Goodbye, and good riddance.