When are you ever going to learn Senator that Democrat-Lite does not win elections? And if you didn’t get it back then, haven’t the preponderance of nationwide Tea Parties — several of which are coming up on Independence Day — given you a clue?

Politics aside, however, what is going to take to get you to defend an honorable, accomplished woman who did nothing but praise your service to your country, extol your (dubious) qualifications and generate palpable excitement on the campaign trail? Let’s face it: until Sarah Palin came along, you were the invisible man in 2008. And there was no other VP choice that was going to remedy that dire situation.

You’ve had one opportunity after another to prove that you still have a sense of honor, but you’ve punted everytime. And now today, Bill Kristol reports in his Weekly Standard post Liberal Media and GOP Hacks vs. Palin, that it was Steve Schmidt who started the “post-partum depression” lie about the governor. Are you going to let Vanity Fair’s hit job stand? Or will you do the honorable thing?