Sarah Palin, "God love 'er," has demonstrated that she is a bobblehead (albeit a pretty one, you betcha) who is clearly ill-equipped to be second in command of our country. Her winking, folksy, "I'll answer your questions any way I want," uninformed performance left little doubt that she does not have the goods to be anything more than governmental eye-candy. Despite the die-hard Republican supporters' chants that she aced the debate and is two-legged mannah from heaven above, the facts speak for themselves. The only reason that she wasn't left floating in a pool of humiliation at the end of that debate was because Joe Biden bit his tongue for a few hours in order to avoid coming off as a big, bad bully. Had his opponent been anyone else - male or female - he would have been given the green light to expose the ignorance revealed in their responses (or lack thereof) to the questions asked by the moderator.Let's just cut to the chase: Sarah Palin was not selected for her extensive experience or expertise. She was chosen for two reasons only. First, she exudes the "regular folk" charm and appeal that middle America seems to find soothing (by golly, we don't like it when our leaders remind us that they're smarter than us), and she does it in a package that is easy to look at. Second, she offered the Republican party a relative lock on the Evangelical vote, which is nothing short of huge. What remains to be seen at this point is whether loyalty to religious affiliation and/or party trumps common sense. If history is any indicator (and, sadly, it is), I won't be remotely surprised to see a gun-totin', Bible-thumpin', abortion-bannin' Barbie elected to the second highest office in our once-great nation.
She'll be changin' what she doesn't want people lookin' back on, drill-baby-drillin' the daylights out of our sensitive and already-damaged ecosystem for oil that the country won't benefit from for ten years, takin' target practice from Air Force 2 on whichever animals haven't been rendered extinct yet ("sorry, Ms. Vice President - there just aren't any polar bears left to plink off with your high-powered rifle"), honoring women's rights by forbidding them from aborting the baby forming inside of them as a result of incestuous rape, and stomping some more on the Constitution by having the VP given more authority and power. Be careful what you wish for, America. Be very, very careful.
