check and mate

and we're done here

I guess I was wrong, Palin didn't get vetted nearly as much as I suspected and things went south enough to demonstrate an abuse of power. So from the past few weeks I have seen her demonstrate behavior of 'certainty' in uncertain situations and now she apparently has the propensity of dividing people into 'loyal minions' and 'those out to get me'. Good times. I suspect it's possible we may see a substitution. Except that the GOP cupboard is really quite bare with no good candidates anywhere, and this is much like putting a mop-up relief pitcher in while down 5 runs, so I won't actually go so far as to say it would happen.