"[T]he ending of that particular campaign felt like being in a car crash"

Whatever can be said about Steve Schmidt's lack of loyalty/class/discretion as demonstrated in this piece (and much has been said), isn't his assessment of Sarah Palin at least defensible?

“She absolutely should not be president: no way, no how,” he said. “I’ve watched her on the public stage over the past four years. There has been zero effort — zero — to improve any of her obvious deficiencies.” 

Hard to argue with the zero effort part.