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Sarah Palin. She ran for Vice President of the United States of America in the 2008 election, as the latter half of the McCain-Palin ticket against the Obama-Biden ticket. The final vote, come election day had the Democrats winning 52.9% [with 365 electoral votes], to the Republicans' 45.7% [173 in the electoral college]. So, regardless of your political leanings, it's safe to say that the Obama-Biden folks won, and the McCain-Palin folks lost.

Sure, if you're a republican, you must be pretty bummed out, but at least it's not confusingly traumatic like, say, the 2000 election was.

Remember that? How it dragged on and on in the courts, until it was finally decided at the US Supreme Court that George W. Bush was going to be our next President? Yeah, that was fun. One of the things I always remember is how people [Republicans] held up signs parodying the Gore-Lieberman logo, saying Sore-Loserman. It seemed somewhat mean-spirited, since there seemed to be actual questions regarding what-the-heck-is-going-on.

Flash-forward to the present. Here we've got Sarah Palin, running around, screaming her head off to anyone who will listen about how the media caused her downfall, hijacked the campaign, and basically cheated her out of the Vice-Presidency.

Here's what I want to know:

Why is everyone treating her with kid gloves? Because she's a woman, we can't point out that she's acting like a lunatic? If Al Gore and Joe Lieberman were sore losers for trying to have votes counted, then certainly Sarah Palin is just as bad for blaming everyone but herself for her loss.

Blaming the Katie Couric, and the Democrats, and Steve Schmidt, and Tina Fey, and bloggers instead of saying "Oh, well, okay back to work, I'll be back next time." is just downright whiny.

Then, as if that didn't make you look weak enough, you want to quit your job? That's... sad, really. That's all it is. Sad. Well, frustrating, hypocritical, and kooky. But also sad.

That is all.