Pleased to see that someone else observed that Palin failed to define precondition when she was asked. I was surprised that no one picked that up. She answered in one of her unintelligible run on sentences which include love of country, our brave soldiers and her possible gratitude for being chosen -- but she thought precondition was having a strategy (strategery?).Couldn't miss it.

Perhaps the media was still recovering from her failure to define Vice President -- clearly an esoteric job description.

Is it possible that the minimum requirement for a job is knowing what it is?

at least Bill Kristol has a beard for the next 4 years, and Jack Welch and dream...

Palin seems to confuse preparation with precondition.

Wow, I just read that New Yorker article. She really is W with lipstick.

She obviously knows how to position herself and appeal to a selected interest to get what she wants. But, I think we already know what happens when individuals don't take the path of rigor on their accent to power. Let's hope the lesson sticks.

Purely selfish on my part since there's so much work to be done on Gov. Palin, but, please, someone, please, tell the poor woman that "and" is only put into a sentence once. As far as being a "rising star"...? They will tar and feather her when she get's back to Alaska. She's done.

Juicy!!

Love this article!

Interestingly, I'm on Bill Kristol's friends list on TimesPeople, and he just recommended the article about the highest-paid person in McCain's campaign in Sept being Palin's makeup person. So maybe he's less of a fan than he used to be.

If Palin hadn't been so "dang purdy" do you think she would have even been considered? Hell no. The Republicans were looking for a vacuous twit who they knew would look good in
$%^& me shoes and skirts a size too tight to get the GOP men all excited. It worked, for awhile. Some of us knew right away something was fishy in Juneau....the other 55% took a little longer to figure it out.

She may be a pretty package, but underneath she is as ugly as Dick Cheney.

Joan of Arc? how about Minnie Pearl? How about the character from My Fair Lady or the Witch in 101 Dalmations.
The Witch in Wizard of OZ is to smart for her so no comparison there.

Notice that the people pushing her were a bunch of paunchy middle-aged white men dazzled by her attractiveness? As Kathleen Parker pointed out in the Wash Post, the choice was based purely on Palin's looks. Her unspoken judgment that a woman would have never been taken in by this dope. It's borne out in the poll numbers; while an overwhelming 70% of women think she's unqualified, the base she ended up appealing to were white, non-college educated working class men.

Sheesh.

Palin was a mail-order candidate , pure and simple. She fit the bill. Problem is, most of the women in this country - are not buying it!!!!

i found myself very upset by the fact that the rupublicans felt that women would be stupid enough to believe that palin was not brought on just because she has breast and would pick up the clinton votes, i am appaled that palin would allow herself to be used in such away. they keeps screaming that obama doesn't have enough experience to be president she has even less, and what is she going to do if someone comes to her with a problem, is she going to say ," don't want to talk about that i want to talk about alaska. could she have looked anymore like a red neck?

i must admit she was very impressive intially, buttttttt,, ten more years experience in the world of government, would have made her more appealing than her looks ever will. nothing can replace the fact that she hasn't 'paid her dues', so to speak.

Wow, why don't you all butcher Sarah Palin!!! It will be interesting to see her rise in the political world. Apparently to succeed in our jaded, crazy society in politics, you have to be a jaded, crazy person. Just because she has the basic values and is not a complicated person, does not mean she's an idiot.

The other day, I told my twenty-one year old daughter that I was having trouble deciding if Palin's candidacy was a comedy or a tragedy. She gave me a look filled with the contempt daughters reserve only for mothers and said, in the tone of one addressing a two year old, "If she loses, it's a comedy. If she wins, THAT'S a tragedy."

It seems to me that a person that has been a mayor of a town of 8400 people and governor for 2 years of a state of 6000,000 people ( less than San Francisco) is qualified to be the second most powerful person in the world. Enough Already.

I look at this election in a worst case scenerio: I am afraid that there is substantial possibility that either candidate will not see the end of their term: McCain because of his age and health history, Obama because of his race and the potential for assasination (sorry to say) and what VP will be their successor. Palin is a self admitted Washington outsider and Alaska cessationist: why would we want her to take on the job of President?

In Palin's world William Ayers is a Terrorist, but Eric Rudolph is a Hero.
The reason why Republicans have so much contempt for Ayers is because they were his targets 40 years ago.
Eric Rudolph bombed the Olympics in Atlanta and Abortion Clinics, his targets were Democrats so that kind of Terrorism is just fine with Palin... You Betcha!

Dick Cheney may have been the anti-christ of politics for the last eight years but ay least he was capable of putting a cogent thought together once in a while. What do you do when your vice presidential candidate has a thought and it dies of loneliness???

W got his job not knowing what it entailed...'nuff said...

What an opportunistic, uninformed, ignorant wench. It's pretty obvious from her current behavior ( calling the media "jerks) pouting, disclaiming, ( I just wanted an occasional Dr Pepper) that this woman will never be fit for higher office. She's not fit for the one she has. Republicans....... this was an insult to American women! How'd you like the result?