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Hasn't it been interesting to note how many of Barack Obama's newspaper endorsements mention Sarah Palin as a reason to distrust John McCain's judgment? Colin Powell featured the VP pick in his bill of particulars against McCain, too. You could almost pick up his thought waves saying "I'll be damned if I'll ever address her as 'Madame President.'"

You have to think McCain must wince each time an Obama endorser brings Palin into the equation, but maybe not. He's lacked that GOP adoration for so long, it could be he's seduced by the cheering throngs, and it blinds him.

But if I were McCain, here's the thing that would bother me: Palin contradicts his message of bi-partisan harmony -- just grinds it up and stomps on it. She's so polarizing that she erects a barbed wire fence in that aisle he says he likes to reach across.