Okay, I’m tired of writing about Sarah Palin. I’m tired of thinking about Sarah Palin. I want her to go away. But she won’t go away.

I don’t know what to make of her speech last night. She sure fired up the base. There’s no chance she’d leave the ticket now — she’s all in. Miers’s Supreme Court nomination tanked only because she lacked base support; the far right didn’t care a whit that she was unqualified to be on the Court. But Palin, they love her. And, of course, they don’t care a whit that she’s unqualified to take over the U.S. presidency.

Anyway, her speech seemed kinda… nasty. Negative. Snide. I don’t see how it wins over swing voters. I understand that sometimes the VP candidate is supposed to be the attack dog, but it didn’t sit right. It seemed like something from Fox News. I thought to myself, You’ve got some nerve, lady, giving a speech like this. Nobody knows anything about you except these tabloidesque revelations that have dribbled out over the last few days, and this is the speech you give?

She’s definitely got chutzpah. But that seems to be it.

And when you combine it with Nosferatu’s Giuliani’s speech, wasn’t last night all very Pat Buchanan 1992? And apparently Rudy’s speech ran long, so they had to cut out Palin’s biographical film in order to stay in prime time. But it went past prime time anyway.

I swear, I fear and loathe this woman. I don’t know what it is.