I don't really care about the details of the Palin drunken brawl, but it's worth remembering that for about 2 years much of our elite political press (cough Politico cough) was focused on Palin as the future of American politics. Those same members of the political press, though they don't often admit it, see themselves as guardians, that their role is to promote or nuke candidates based on their private knowledge of their worthiness.
Heckuva job.
