Maureen Dowd's column in today's NYT is a must read on Palin. The whole column is devastating, but the last paragraph says it all. Dowd says : R. D. Levno, a retired school principal, flew in from Fairbanks. “She’s a child, inexperienced and simplistic,” she said of Sarah. “It’s taking us back to junior high school. She’s one of the popular girls, but one of the mean girls. She is seductive, but she is invented.”