Joe Scarborough calls Sarah Palin's speech at the Freedom Summit a "tragedy."

Courtesy of TPM:  

Scarborough made his remarks after Washington Examiner columnist Byron York panned the former Alaska governor's "long and disjointed" address. That led Nicolle Wallace, the former Palin aide who has long since been one of her biggest detractors, to recall that York was once one of her "staunchest supporters." 

“I think it’s a tragedy, too,” Scarborough chimed in. “We all remember that night she spoke in 2008 at the [Republican national] convention. I will say, it remains one of the most electrifying performances I’ve seen in the last four or five conventions I’ve been to. Nobody expected her to do well. She delivered the lines well; she hit it out of the park." 

"We will let history decide how she got from that point to this point,” Scarborough said.

Actually the answer to how Palin got from the 2008 national convention point to the point she is at today, is that the 2008 point never really existed.

In other words the ONLY reason that Palin came off so well was that she had people controlling everything she wore and everything she did.

On her own Palin has always been the broken down heap that we see today, however for a brief time she had people applying a coat of new paint and tightening her spark plugs to keep her running seemingly smooth.

It was never real.

What people are seeing today is the REAL Sarah Palin without, as Nicolle Wallace pointed out, those "annoying handlers."

For all of you who recognized this way back in 2008, I think it is time to give yourselves a well deserved pat on the back. Remember the rest of the country is simply coming to the same place where we have been standing all along.