among the people who would normally give her a shot. guests on rachel maddow had high ranking positions on the mccain/palin campaign. let's listen. she's not getting a lot of respect right now. let's listen. >> i think that is there have been failures in the vice presidential vetting process, and i was involved in one of them. >> my advice for anyone, but particularly for her, and she has a whole nest of problems that would, you know, that she would have to confront, but the first one would be to resist her most partisan and polarizing instincts because that would make her the wrong candidate for the moment. >> does she have anything to offer beyond that? >> look, you know, i was inspired about her and was inspired to write a book called "cuckoo for coco puffs." i guess saying that she's a ditz. why are they more openly criticizing her?