[Note: I'm not a conservative and adamantly opposed the administrations decision to invade Iraq. That doesn't mean I automatically agree with everything suggested by people on the left, particularly when the person talking has such a simplistic conception of foreign policy. So please don't accuse me of being some blind Bush follower.]

For O'Donnell to expect her Hasselbeck to defend O'Donnell for saying something Hasselbeck almost certainly found offensive at the time is irrational and self-centered. And Hasselbeck was right when she said that O'Donnell was trying to make the debate personal by accusing Hasselbeck of being a bad friend.

This whole thing depresses me. As a woman, I cringe at such a public display of two poorly informed women dragging personal conflict into a debate about foreign policy. As someone who follows the news and can see what an impossible conundrum we now find ourselves in with regards to Iraq, I am weary of the old Left/Right, Good/Evil, Anti-Bush/Pro-Bush framework being trotted out even though it long ago ceased to provide any useful insight on this issue.

Good riddance to Rosie. And if her departure means the View's rating fall and it's eventually cancelled, all the more reason to celebrate. The show may have been riveting this last season, but for all the wrong reasons.

The person who should be leaving is Hasselbeck -- she's incapable of a "fair fight" (the Trump remark), but then again that is part and parcel of being a GOP sock-puppet, and any replacement for her is going to be just another GOP sock puppoet incapable of defending the Republican position

The problem with the show is that the Republican perspective is indefensible, yet the producers feel they need someone there to act as the voice of Bush supporters. Purely in terms of "informational" programming, the show would be far better off with a "sensible progressive" who would call Rosie on some of her more outrageous statements (e.g. implying that the implosion of the third tower represented some kind of vast government conspiracy on 9-11.)

Rosie's human, and one of the things typical of humans is that it becomes much harder to deal with the day-to-day bullshit you deal with on a job once you know you are leaving that job. Its at that point that all the bullshit really gets to you, because there is no "upside" to dealing with it.

So good for Rosie for standing up and saying "there is no point in my sticking around for three weeks to act as a foil for a moronic GOP sock-puppet."