It is, perhaps, a perfect illustration of how politics can descend into risible entertainment and how argument be replaced by pure emotionalism and symbolism. There is also, shall I say, an element of irony in a former half-term governor’s call for “honesty” – when her own record of constant lies, delusions and fantasies is so demonstrably clear.

Then there’s the rhetoric of violence. The woman who put cross-hairs on Gabby Giffords is still saying things like “It’s time to bomb Obamacare.” It’s never time to “bomb” anything outside a declaration of war. To urge such a thing in domestic political disputes, even in empty rhetoric, is the mark of a crazy person.

But we knew that already.