"If everybody minded their own business," said the Duchess in a hoarse growl, "the world would go around a deal faster than it does."
(Lewis Carroll)
I think at some point, you will come to agree that Palin was not a good choice. It is possible that you think so already and all of your squirming on the issue is just an attempt to avoid admitting it publicly. I dunno.
But I predict that when we speak of it next year, you will continue to assert that "it" was all about crazy liberals whose "heads exploded" over poor misunderstood Palin (who you mysteriously never had much good to say about, yourself).