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Palaver

Dana Milbank is a Washington Post columnist and together with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat think that loud, foul-tongued former Alaska Governor and US veep wannabe Sarah Palin is overrated and getting much-too-much Press coverage. Palaver couldn’t agree more. She and her anti-Obama Tea Partyists are overrated and undeserving of the glare of the media spotlight.

 Milbank is declaring February a Palin-free month and asking the rest of us to join in the news blackout. Now why would Palaver not join such a noble cause being termed "the Palin Pledge"? And to quote Plutarch: "In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker." Palaver couldn’t have put it better. See you in March, Sarah.

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