It’s rather amazing the degree to which everyone the bottom has fallen out on Sarah Palin ever since her horrendous Katie Couric interview. People weren’t too sure she had what it took before. Now they’re convinced she’s a buffoon. Fareed Zakaria, editor of Newsweek International, just eviscerates her in the latest Newsweek. It’s an incredibly well-written, well-documented, and devastating piece of journalism. And it doesn’t just indict Palin, it blasts McCain for risking the future of our country.

Palin Is Ready? Please.

Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony? Is it too much to ask that she come to realize that she wants, in that wonderful phrase in American politics, “to spend more time with her family”?…

This is nonsense—a vapid emptying out of every catchphrase about economics that came into her head. Some commentators, like CNN’s Campbell Brown, have argued that it’s sexist to keep Sarah Palin under wraps, as if she were a delicate flower who might wilt under the bright lights of the modern media. But the more Palin talks, the more we see that it may not be sexism but common sense that’s causing the McCain campaign to treat her like a time bomb.

Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president. She is a feisty, charismatic politician who has done some good things in Alaska. But she has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue, and this is a hell of a time to start….

Obviously these are very serious challenges and constraints. In these times, for John McCain to have chosen this person to be his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible. McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, it is simply not true.