GOP is winkin’, blinkin’ and noddin’ off

As the GOP candidates have been thrashing it out in debates that seem to occur every couple of hours or so, one almost misses the iconic wink that enraged or beguiled the nation a political season ago.

Admit it. You miss Sarah Palin just a little: The wink, the red shoes, the pointing finger, the heck-with-ya attitude, and, given the performance of some of her Republican colleagues, her Taser-like intelligence.

Yes, it has come to this.

It helped