The in-fighting goes a lot deeper than bickering over the Veep’s wardrobe. The New York Times has some juicy details from anonymous top advisers in the McCain and Palin camps, who seem to have been waging a divisive battle of their own as Barack Obama rode the presidential unicorn to living sainthood. Deets include Palin’s desire to steal McCain’s concession thunder, leaked comments from both sides that the other side is full of whack jobs, and Palin’s forehead-smackingly clueless response to her foreign-leader prank call.

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Haha, oh, hey, it’s Governor Palin here to interrupt our country’s momentous joy at her expulsion from national politics! Sorry your race for the presidency by virtue of a John McCain mercy killing didn’t work out for you. See you in ten years on the back of a future Trivial Pursuit card! But before you go, hey, fuck you! I will squeeze out my last bit of resentment at your completely absurd personality and your expensive accessories. Posted today on Newsweek.com:

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According to E! Online’s Marc Malkin, Heidi Montag and Spencer Pratt of MTV “reality” show The Hills support McCain, Palin—and gay marriage. “I think, you know, whoever you decide to marry—boys, girls, whatever you like—it’s up to you,” Montag said.

Pratt implies that his support of gays stems from their ability to make his girlfriend appear more attractive—thus reinforcing his own heterosexuality. “Heidi’s hair and makeup people are my favorite people in the world and they happen to be gay,” he says. “So if they wanna go marry each other, good for them.”

It’s the wee hours after the Joe Biden v. Sarah Palin debate, and boy am I spent. In case you missed the Sexist live blog of the Veep showdown, allow me to recap: There were no major flat-on-their-face, waking-up-in-a-pool-of-their-own-vomit, bloated-purple-dead-on-a-toilet moments for either candidate, and for that, schadenfreudists everywhere give the debate a collective “Meh.”

Palin pointed out that it’s onler her fifth week in the national spotlight, and she showed a marked improvement from last week’s showing. While in the Katie Couric interviews, Palin appeared uninformed and unprepared, here, she appeared uninformed and prepared. She learned how to bullshit, and boy, did she lather lipstick on that pig.

Actual pro-woman candidate Biden was fine throughout, but he only managed to let his particular strengths shine through at the end. His personal story, fuck all politics, was the debate’s one real moment, and it was the only thing that could silence Palin’s persistent posturing about being more middle class, accessible, relatable, and real. Biden has a record, too, Palin, but he also has this quirky talent of being able to answer the questions that are asked of him. In the end, Biden picked up considerable steam. [Live-blogging onlooker The Sexist, on the other hand, found even simple subject-verb constructions difficult as the event wound down].

Throughout, both candidates got caught in that same political eddy—they both kept (1) trying to out-Mainstreet, out-Middle Class, and out-kitchen table each other while (2) trying to name-drop for their presidential honies as much as possible. The reason VP debates are so fascinating is because the two candidates form the bizarro-world of the Presidential election—the tangential side-show to the main event. But it’s also why they can get annoying and irrelevant. After the first 90-minute presidential debate, I wasn’t sure how much I wanted to sit through another one; now, I’m a little bit hungry for more of that Obama/McCain stability.