and I think Darwin Catholic sums things up perfectly:
One of the things Palin has unquestionably achieved (to her sorrow) is giving the hard left a chance to show the entire country how utterly despicable and hateful the “caring” party can be.
The behavior of the vicious moral cripples who deliberately mock a little boy with Down’s Syndrome in order to score political points against a politician they dislike demonstrates more clearly than any argument how repellent the Thing That Used to be Liberalism has become.
Utterly, utterly despicable.