Politico comes right out and says that after Iowa Sarah Palin is roadkill.

Courtesy of Politico:

A little over three weeks ago, about a thousand Republicans gathered in Des Moines, Iowa, at a political cattle call. A cattle call is like a straw vote but without the vote. Candidates prefer them, because there is no final tally to humiliate them. Instead, the candidates can only humiliate themselves. 

Which is what happened in Des Moines, where 24 candidates pounded out 10 hours of speeches without a rest break for the audience. Ten hours! And what purpose did it serve? 

It got rid of Sarah Palin. On the Friday night before the event, she told a reporter she was “seriously interested” in running for president. 

But the next day, she gave a speech of such rambling incoherence and such disjointed babbling that it sounded like she was being simultaneously translated into a language from another galaxy. 

Even her supporters were baffled. Their favorite theories about what had happened: Somebody had slipped Thorazine into her morning Froot Loops. Her body had been taken over by a Nexus-6 model replicant. She had taken seriously the advice of aides who told her: “Just be yourself, Sarah. What could go wrong?” 

In any case, she has now gone from a hopeless candidate to a laughably hopeless candidate. The media will never take her seriously again. The Grim Reaper has done its job.

I know that all of us have already reached this decision, as have a few other news outlets, but it is still interesting to note how many others are now coming forward.

Of course I think that for anybody who heard that speech there was really no doubt left that she was toast.

And of course this didn't exactly help matters either.