You want "bitchy", dear, read the post to which I was responding. Or yours, for that matter. :-)

She was the media’s darling, was she? That’s why, I suppose, magazines ran covers with titles like "Babies, Lies and Scandals", or why blogger’s ridiculous rumors saw mainstream press, and the foxhounds went to Alaska to dig up any dirt whatsoever on Palin? Sorry, but that’s not going to fly.

And, since you brought up Gibson, you must remember his interview with Palin?

At one point he said, "You said recently, in your old church, ‘Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.’ Are we fighting a holy war?"

She responded, "You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote."

He said, "Exact words."

She really said, "Pray our military men and women who are striving to do what is right also for this country — that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God. That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan.."

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94332540

Charlie Gibson tried to lynch Palin, and make her come off as some sort of religous whacko. He went so far as to deliberately lie about her words. Let’s face it, in other circumstances, Gibson would have lost his job for that sort of slanderous misquoting; he violated all journalistic standards of integrity and honesty, and yet, who even mentions it? 

I reiterate, the media wanted to lynch Palin because they feared her. 

Oh, and as for your statement that "Palin helped screw it up for the GOP", you should know that, for many people, myself included, Palin was what convinced us absolutely to vote for McCain; where I had been uncertain, particularly when Hillary was still in the race but it was clear that McCain had won the Republican nomination, her appearance made my mind up. You say you "may" have voted for McCain if Palin wasn’t there; I did vote for McCain because Palin was. 

Nanny—"She opened her mouth" the day McCain announced her as his VP—and she gave an incredible speech that day. Immediately, the MSM began to trash her. They had to acknowledge her great speech, but they cautioned "Well, a speech is one thing,  let’s see how well she does with the press". So, if she was "the media’s darling", I and everyone else must have missed it or it only lasted a nanosecond. I watched her give that speech live that day—she was fantastic so I knew the media would be out to get her and sure enough they wasted no time. I would have loved for Katie Couric to ask Obama what publications he read, or for that matter anyone in the MSM to have asked Obama a hard questions instead of all the fawning they tried to pass off as hard news. The media eviscerated Sarah Palin and anyone who doesn’t see that is not honest with themselves.

As to all of you "republicans" or "former republicans" who didn’t vote for McCain because of Palin—that just doesn’t make any sense on so many levels. You would vote for a far left liberal instead—what does that say about your belief system? Also, you are in the same category as all of the supposed intellectual right like  Brooks, Noonan, C. Buckley etc—who all have "buyer’s remorse" now—after they told us how "brilliant" Obama was and ignored all the facts about him, "hoping" he would "govern from the middle"——not so "smart" afterall, were they?