Fun zealotry

Obama may have been president of The Harvard Law Review, but Palin graduated from the University of Idaho with a minor in poli-sci and worked briefly as a TV sports reporter.

For the first time in many tries, I have been amused by an op-ed signed Maureen Dowd. Here is the link, or permalink, which I hope means that it will never go away; that it will be accessible as is until at least the Armageddon.
Could thinking on the Republican camp be as "refreshingly cynical" as Dowd would have us believe? I cannot stomach the thought. But only because it smells plausible.