Nevertheless, I'm going to keep pouding my pud

Rich Lowry keeps seeing starbursts:

The split over Palin, of course, poisoned everything at the end. One of the dividing lines was between her communications team and the policy advisers. The communications team seemed to consider her a dolt, while the policy people—like Steve Biegun and Randy Scheunemann—were impressed with her and her potential. As one McCain aide told me, "It's the difference between considering her someone who lacks knowledge and someone who is incompetent, and they [the communications aides] treated her as the latter."

Oh, if only she had someone equally incompetent to run up against her...like Rich Lowry?

Poor guy, neither Palin nor Petraeus even got down on their knees for li'l Richie. He really needs to move on to a new letter.