I suppose the upshot of this piece by Jonathan Martin and John Harris is that conservative elites are finally turning on Sarah Palin on the grounds that even if the economy fails to recover, she's one of the few people who still might actually lose to Barack Obama.
What I found interesting, though, is the nature of the complaints against her. The two quotes that basically summarize conservative dissatisfaction with Palin are Peter Wehner saying that "she seems at best disinterested in ideas or least lacks the ability to articulate any philosophical justification for them," and Matt Labash saying that “she’s becoming Al Sharpton, Alaska edition.”
So conservative elites are frustrated that Palin is anti-intellectual, not particularly clever, and that her politics consist largely of Nixonian appeals to cultural resentment. In other words, conservative elites have come to believe everything liberals said about Palin in 2008, when conservatives were calling them sexist, elitist, and out of touch with Real America.
