Here's Charles Krauthammer today on the people jumping ship to vote for Obama,

Contrarian that I am, I'm voting for John McCain. I'm not talking about bucking the polls or the media consensus that it's over before it's over. I'm talking about bucking the rush of wet-fingered conservatives leaping to Barack Obama before they're left out in the cold without a single state dinner for the next four years.

I stand athwart the rush of conservative ship-jumpers of every stripe -- neo (Ken Adelman), moderate (Colin Powell), genetic/ironic (Christopher Buckley) and socialist/atheist (Christopher Hitchens) -- yelling "Stop!" I shall have no part of this motley crew. I will go down with the McCain ship. I'd rather lose an election than lose my bearings.

First, I'll have no truck with the phony case ginned up to rationalize voting for the most liberal and inexperienced presidential nominee in living memory.

First of all, Krauthammer is being too generous calling Ken Adelman, Colin Powell, and Christopher Buckley conservatives. Republicans? Yes. Conservatives, no.

Also, in recent years, I've tried to stay away from beating up on other conservatives unless they really deserve it (like Pat Buchanan, Jerome Corsi, Linda Chavez). That's a decision I made back prior to the 2006 election, when the conservative movement started to fracture a little more.

For that reason, I haven't spent a lot of time beating up on the anti-Sarah Palin/I love Barack crowd. However, Kathleen Parker's column today is so far over the line, you can't even see the line from where she is.

My husband called it first. Then, a brilliant, 75-year-old scholar and raconteur confessed to me over wine: "I'm sexually attracted to her. I don't care that she knows nothing."

... One does not have to be a psychoanalyst to reckon that McCain was smitten. By no means am I suggesting anything untoward between McCain and his running mate. Palin is a governor, after all. She does have an executive resume, if a thin one. And she's a natural politician who connects with people.

But there can be no denying that McCain's selection of her over others far more qualified -- and his mind-boggling lack of attention to details that matter -- suggests other factors at work. His judgment may have been clouded by ... what?

...As my husband observed early on, McCain the mortal couldn't mind having an attractive woman all but singing arias to his greatness. Cameras frequently capture McCain beaming like a gold-starred schoolboy while Palin tells crowds that he is "exactly the kind of man I want as commander in chief." This, notes Draper, "seemed to confer not only valor but virility on a 72-year-old politician who only weeks ago barely registered with the party faithful."

You know, it's incredibly ironic that Parker intones through her 75 year old friend that Palin, "knows nothing," because this may be the single stupidest, most puerile political column I've ever read from someone I previously considered to be a credible political commentator. In fact, my first thought after reading it was that Kathleen Parker is either mentally ill or emotionally unstable -- and that's coming from someone who once considered himself to be a fan of her work. Her whole column reads like it was penned by a green-with-envy 17 year old girl who can't stand the fact that one of her classmates beat her out for prom queen.

Now, I don't know what Parker's problem is, but someone who's close to her should let her know she's destroying her political career by writing this nonsense -- well, that is if she intends to continue on as a conservative columnist. Maybe this is a prelude to a switch over to the Left or she's going to start a career as a gossip blogger, where they appreciate this sort of brainless, snarky commentary.

That being said, her little jihad against Sarah Palin makes no sense. "Oh, she's a failure who was just taken because she is pretty!" Of course, that ignores the fact that Palin has had more of a positive effect on the McCain ticket than any VP has in decades. She is considerably more popular with conservatives than McCain, she draws bigger crowds than McCain, and quite frankly, a ticket featuring Palin as the Presidential nominee and McCain as the Veep would probably be doing better than the current ticket.

If you don't like Palin -- and this goes out to more than just Kathleen Parker (cough, cough Peggy Noonan) -- that's fine, but when you write these condescending, snobbish, insulting columns that imply no one else could have any legitimate reason to like her, you're insulting more than just her: you're insulting a large majority of conservatives in the U.S. who think she's the best thing that happened to the McCain campaign this year.