I know, I know...

OK, I did promise not to say another word about Saint Sarah of the North, but this piece by the Daily News' Mike Lupica is certainly worth sharing. Excerpt:

Once people in this country who opposed the war in Iraq were called unpatriotic. Now if you criticize Gov. Palin, it is as if you want to fold the 19th Amendment into a paper airplane. So people from her side, starting with McCain's handlers, have made it out that she is a victim of sexism. Are they kidding? Sarah Palin ought to write sonnets on the subject, because it is sexism that has built a force field around her, for as long as it lasts.

There is no question that Palin has become the shooting star of this campaign, pun absolutely intended. In many ways, she already has done the job John McCain hired her to do, like she is part of some trick play in football, everybody watching her instead of the guy with the ball.

McCain, of course, is a trick play all by himself these days, trying to run against George Bush at the same time he brings in a running mate - Palin - who is so onboard with Bush's policies, on everything from God to guns to Iraq, she could pass for the third Bush daughter if she were a little younger.

Now that's it. Really. I promise.