She now is in favor of abortion only in case of diploid birth.

Her policies will increase jobs because Wal-Mart is building new stores each day and someone has to be the greeter.

This will lead to smaller government because fewer Americans will have the cognitive ability to hold a government job

Now, The Huffington Post did, eventually, bring down this thoroughly mean-spirited, utterly vicious piece. And the author apologized—but not until he learned that some of his liberal friends had loved ones who were mentally retarded. (Let’s give a salute to the family of Sargent Shriver. Always liberal, they’re the ones who started the Special Olympics. God bless them.)

General Charles de Gaulle was one of the towering figures of the twentieth century. To be sure, he not only vexed Hitler and the pro-Nazi government of occupied France, but also his own allies. Churchill said the heaviest cross he had to bear in WWII was the Cross of Lorraine (the symbol of DeGaulle’s Free French forces.)

Still, it is interesting to learn what it was that DeGaulle thought had shaped his character and his destiny: “The love of Anne DeGaulle,” he told a reporter. It took some digging. Mme. DeGaulle’s name was Yvonne. Anne DeGaulle was the mentally retarded daughter whom the DeGaulles refused to put in an institution. They rearranged their entire domestic life to accommodate this special needs young woman. Anne returned their unstinting love in full measure. And when they stood at her graveside, Charles embraced his wife and said, tearfully: “Now, she is like all the others.”

Americans will make up their own minds about Gov. Palin’s sudden announcement. It may take time. But it should take no time at all to make up our minds about the kind of writer who would offer up this bitter-tasting fruit—and the kind of outfit that would post it.