Yeah, it is a sore spot with me. Because if the ruling elites and their minions in the media can successfully conspire to totally smear and destroy any potential leader of good, conservative character, using an endless streams of lies, I see no hope for America. It makes the whole political scene moot. McGinniss and his effort was just one loathesome pebble in a much larger picture, just like the way Hollywood spent millions to produce that HBO movie to show Palin as some kind of mentally-deranged diva, another smear. Or the way the media immediately tried to place blame of the Tucson mass-murder directly onto Palin, leading to over a 100,000 death-threats to her and her family.
And that is the ultimate conclusion that I arrived at, that the American citizenry is so weak and morally depraved, it just sops this nonsense up. This country is ready for the ash-heap.