One of the very few things about being me is that I get calls from pretty smart reporters asking me what I think about this or that. Sitting at the Atlanta airport yesterday afternoon, I got such a call from a reporter for the Daily Beast asking me to compare Sarah Palin's appearances in the run-up to Tuesday's elections with those of Mitt Romney. I said that was the wrong question. The correct question, I said, was to compare Sarah Palin's appearances with those of Barack Obama. MY DEAR Mr. Mullings: How DARE you mention Sarah Palin and Barack Obama...