The GOP falls all over itself....

Digby points out that the conservatives who are suddenly having second thoughts on the question of whether or not Sarah Palin is a blithering idiot aren't really being that consistent.

I actually feel sorry for McCain on this one. He had every reason to believe that the conservative intelligentsia would support putting a functional incompetent on the ticket. After all, people like David Frum wrote glowing books called The Right Man about the current functional incompetent in the White House. How was McCain to know that these rats would scurry over the side squealing about "competence" and "intelligence" all of a sudden?

David Frum had the audacity to point out that Sarah Palin isn't quite up to the task of stringing three coherent sentences together, and apparently the knuckle-draggers at the National Review aren't too happy with him stepping out of line. Digby points out that

Frum is getting slammed by his own side for being an inconvenient truth-teller about Palin's incoherence. How could they?

I suspect it may because Frum was positively giddy about the man who said this:

"Because the—all which is on the table begins to address the big cost drivers. For example, how benefits are calculate, for example, is on the table; whether or not benefits rise based upon wage increases or price increases. There's a series of parts of the formula that are being considered. And when you couple that, those different cost drivers, affecting those—changing those with personal accounts, the idea is to get what has been promised more likely to be—or closer delivered to what has been promised. Does that make any sense to you? It's kind of muddled. Look, there's a series of things that cause the—like, for example, benefits are calculated based upon the increase of wages, as opposed to the increase of prices. Some have suggested that we calculate—the benefits will rise based upon inflation, as opposed to wage increases. There is a reform that would help solve the red if that were put into effect. In other words, how fast benefits grow, how fast the promised benefits grow, if those—if that growth is affected, it will help on the red."—Explaining his plan to save Social Security, Tampa, Fla., Feb. 4, 2005