[MrsEmmaPeel]

Personally, I think the "loyalty" excuse for Palin's behavior to be pretty lame. She's being "loyal" to her own detriment, campaigning (as distrinct from endorsing or --better yet-- ignoring) a man whose values she claims she does not espouse. I'm not interested in drinking the Palin kool-aid to excuse it.

[carton253]

Then don’t drink the kool-aid. See how easy that was.

[Williams]

I would MUCH rather have had McCain than Obama. On just about every issue.

Sarah Palin is doing the right thing.

Yes I’d rather have J.D. Hayworth. She’s still doing what’s right, life can be like that.

[WhistlingPastTheGraveyard]

My favorite excuse is the “if she didn’t do this, the media would call her names” line. Have these people been in a coma for the last 18 months? Nothing she can do will ever stop the media from attacking her. And if avoiding media attacks is going to be the basis for her decision-making from now on, that means the media controls her... and she’s useless to her country.

People aren’t hearing the excuses they’re making for her. They’re not even trying to think this stuff through. That kool-aid must be powerful stuff.