With the election results now signed, sealed and delivered, now comes the finger pointing from the losing side and not surprisingly McCain’s crooked old finger is pointing at Sarah Palin.

Instead of doing what they should have done during the campaign, now the McCain camp and Republicans throw Palin to the political lions, revealing or making up that they themselves didn’t believe Palin was a winning choice.

Fox News Channel political correspondent Carl Cameron today disclosed the first of what he predicts will be an “avalanche” of unflattering stories about the Republican vice presidential nominee: Off-the-record tips from McCain aides that Palin did not know Africa was a continent or the constituent countries in the NAFTA treaty. He later told Bill O’Reilly Palin also didn’t know the constituent nations of North America, either.

The classy move from insiders paints Palin as a spoiled, ignorant brat.

Far worse for the campaign was that Palin did not allow aides to prep her for her disastrous interview with Katie Couric, thus exposing her ignorance — or “lack… of knowledgeability” as Cameron diplomatically puts it — to the general public. This intractability was supposedly followed by Palin temper tantrums when things, inevitably, went poorly.

All of this of course is an attempt to negate the very real fact of why Palin was chosen in the first place, to appeal to women, to present an alternative to angry Hillary Clinton supporters, especially white women and of course to appeal to the far right within the Republican base with a running mate who was all about God, country, and saving babies.

You have to feel kind of sorry for Palin, who was a political pawn in a game doomed to fail for the GOP. The move even has Palin apologizing!

Via / Gawker, Pam’s House blend