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You can’t make this stuff up! any novelist who had a vp canidate from a major party saying that dinosaurs and man were on the earth at the same time couldn’t get published. (i’ll admit I don’t know if she really said it – but i believe she could have.)

Have you seen the clip with Katie Couric when Katie asks Sarah Palin what newspaper and magazines she reads and she couldn’t name any? When asked to name one Supreme Court decision other than Roe v. Wade, she couldn’t, did anyone from the McCain campaign even talk to her?

OK, I freely admit it, I was wrong. In my post requesting that the media give Palin a break I wrote that I was sure she would soon be able to spit out the McCain talking points.

I guess I am just one of many Americans who over estimated the ability of Sarah Palin. I guess that Palin’s handlers didn’t expect she’d be asked a question about Pakistan. I’ve heard that she’s off to debate camp the rest of this week, i’m hoping that the handles can help her.

My advice to Biden, do a John McCain and talk down to her and don’t look at her, the American people love to see that sort of thing! OK, seriously my advice is to let her fall on her own sword and don’t try to help her, she either does or doesn’t – either way it would look bad if he was the one to ask any questions that showed how little she really knows and how ill prepared she is.

Yesterday on TV I saw a NBC / Wall Street Journal poll that said 40% of the people surveyed think Sara Palin is qualified to be President. Really? I don’t see how anyone who is paying attention to her could say that.

Kathleen Parker, who was an early Palin supporter, is also a nationally syndicated columnist. In an article for the National Review (which is one of the most conservative magazines in America) Parker wrote, “If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself.

If Palin were a man, we’d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she’s a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true.

What to do?

McCain can’t repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP’s unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden.

Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first.

Do it for your country.”

She doesn’t like Biden or Obama – but what would you expect to find in the National Review? I find it interesting that some from the right are starting to truly follow their party mantra and put “country first” by pointing out that Palin has no business thinking about going to the White House, unless it’s on a tour.

40% Really?

When Palin said that the fact that Putin flies over Alaska airspace when he travels to Washington somehow is a foreign policy credential for her resume, I have to wonder how there is 4% of the people who think she is qualified, let alone 40%. Field dressing a mouse is not a qualification.

Before McCain picked her as his VP, do you think anybody in America thought she was qualified to be president? Is she really the second most qualified person in the Republican party to be president? Do you think McCain thinks she’s qualified?

40% Really???

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Usually I only like George Will when he’s writing about baseball; today I really enjoyed this conservative columnist article assessing the temperament and judgment of John McCain. (I can’t link to it because you need to sign up yourself, but go to the Washington Post and register – it’s free – and read the whole article.) Here’s a sample of what he wrote:

Conservatives who insist that electing McCain is crucial usually start, and increasingly end, by saying he would make excellent judicial selections. But the more one sees of his impulsive, intensely personal reactions to people and events, the less confidence one has that he would select judges by calm reflection and clear principles, having neither patience nor aptitude for either.

It is arguable that, because of his inexperience, Obama is not ready for the presidency. It is arguable that McCain, because of his boiling moralism and bottomless reservoir of certitudes, is not suited to the presidency. Unreadiness can be corrected, although perhaps at great cost, by experience. Can a dismaying temperament be fixed?

Just when I worried that all republicans have thrown away their integrity to support Sarah Palin as Vice President Republican Senator Chuck Hagel from Nebraska steps forward and says what everyone else who follows politics knows, (but the Republican seem to be more interested in putting party first over country so they won’t admit) Sara Palin isn’t qualified to be Vice President. Hagel said it’s a “stretch” to say she’s qualified and “She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials, … You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.”

I think it’s a very fair question to ask if Palin could be President if anythink happens to McCain, after all he is 72 years old and the insurance companies say that a 72 year old male has a 1 in 3 chance of dying of natural causes in the next 4 years. When asked about her qualifications Hagel said, “I think it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s got the experience to be president of the United States.”

I laughed the first time I heard McCain say that because Palin lived near Russia that somehow qualified her as having foreign policy experience. (That’s kind of like saying because June and I live near a golf course June is qualified to be an expert on golf.) In the Charlie Gibson interview, which the Fox Noise people say was so unfair, Plain said “They’re our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.”

Senator Hagel’s thoughts to that statement has to be the same as what many Republicans are thinking but most seem not Maverick enough to speak the truth. “I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,’” The senator said. “That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.”

I think the whole Palin nomination is insulting to the American people. With this economic crisis that is going on right now, I’ve got to think that Mcçain is wishing that Gov. Romney hadn’t turned him down. (OK, I know everyone thinks Romney really wanted to be VP and I don’t know for sure that Romney did in fact turn him down with a VP offer, but I find it hard to believe that McCain’s first or even second choice was Palin. to me it seems pretty clear that the McCain people didn’t even vet her, if they had they would have moved on to another choice.)

The media is making a big deal of the fact that Sarah Palin didn’t know what the “Bush Doctrine” is, I think that is so unfair of the media. don’t they realize that she’s only had 2 weeks to learn about foreign policy. She’s had a lot to learn and I think she should be given some credit for what she has already learned in two short weeks, remember she only got her passport last year, so she really is starting from zero knowledge.

It’s just like the media to expect a candidate for president or vice president to know what the overall policy of the current administration is, they need to give Palin a break. I think we can expect that Governor Palin will be able to spit out the McCain talking points of the Bush Doctrine next time she is interviewed.