Is it just my myopic view?

Is it just my myopic view, or is the Republican Party coming apart? Doesn't it look like Republican Senators are showing their hypocricy and inability to adhere to their own standards? And now their poster child in the feminine gender, the Barracuda from Wasilla, is dropping her sole position of responsibility. There's tongue-wagging going on at the New York Times (and elsewhere) that she's doing it in a Nixon-esque attempt to step out of the spotlight in order to work on her assault on the Presidency in 2012.

I might explain her move another way. This week in Vanity Fair there was an article that came from sources pretty close to the McCain campaign, which pointed out the political functionaries' views that Ms. Palin is incompetent, inexperienced, and kind of a basket case in tough political situations. Add to that her working class abrasiveness and reluctance to back down from even a losing fight (like the recent name-calling spat with David Letterman), and it's obvious the GOP can't wash their hands of her quickly enough. And when she turns to her heroes in the GOP Social Conservative camp to see who'll defend her honor, she finds she's only got the likes of Newt "Sotomayor is the KKK" Gingrich, Larry "Wide Stance" Craig, Alan "Hiking the Appalachian Trail to Argentina" Sanford, and "Promise Keepers" Ensign, and the afore-mentioned McCain camp, who have already sold her out and thrown her to the sharks.

Didn't McCain promise to defend her last year after the "lipstick on a pig" remark from the Obama campaign? I believe Ms. Palin is planning to disappear into the obscurity of small-town Alaska politics, or maybe just disappear from the public eye altogether, because she's seen the corruption, veniality, and empty-headed sanctimony of her "tribe' and realizes she doesn't want anything to do with those opportunistic dweebs. They ditched her at the prom! You almost have to feel bad for her. Except that she'll probably make a lot of money writing and lecturing. I hope she tells the truth about her foray into mainstream Republicanism, because it could bring about the end of the GOP as we know it. They're done for. And they should watch out for Todd, who hunts.