I always enjoyed Krouthammer, but never thought of him as a leader of Conservative thought. How can he be when he didn’t even vote for Reagan in either election? George Will is a Washington insider from a forgotten time. He is as current as those bow ties.
Here’s a similar article at the American Prospect:
The Fall of Sarah Palin
http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs/tapped_archive?month=03&year=2011&base_name=the_fall_of_sarah_palin_1