Sarah Palin Makes Dan Qualye Look Like Henry Kissenger

Left: Chippie of the Last Frontier, Gov. Sarah Palin, in 1984, with the look that says "Is it really true you can't get pregnant the first time?"


I'm sure that many of our non Alaska readers are bewildered by McCain's choice of Alaska governor Sarah Palin for Vice President of the United States. Yes, these United States.

Here's what you need to know:

1) Sarah Palin has faced the utterly corrupt Republican establishment in Alaska and severely nanny-nanny boo-booed them. Unless they're been convicted, they are however, all still there.

2) Sarah Palin is 44, has no international experience of any kind, or any record of ever having though about South Ossetia, or France for that matter, but she is able to spell the phrase "foreign relations."

3) A fairly attractive woman, she was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, after serving on it's city council, where she helped keep it among the ugliest towns in America. She was able to make it slightly less ugly by shopping at Nordstrom's.

4.) She was elected by basically the same people that re-elected Senator Stevens.

5) She is all for the U.S. occupation of your uterus, if you have one.

A pleasant person, Gov. Palin is utterly, wholly, shockingly unqualified to be President of the United States. Better for us, she gives us ample opportunity to make endemic corruption of politics by Big Oil the topic of the election; because in order to explain why she got anywhere, you have to go through a long explanation of how Big Oil owns the Republican party, how indictments are falling like snowflakes, how the Republican party sold out Alaska and it's people to the Petrodictators again and again and again, and how, guess what, they've been doing that to us.

Clinton supporters should be deeply offended by John McCain's apparent belief that Palin is some kind of equivalent who would attract their vote. Palin is literally Miss Congeniality, whose primary accomplishment was annoying the people in her party who are yet indicted by not being one of them. Hillary Clinton is a national figure of outstanding skill and accomplishment, the headlights to Sarah Palin's deer.

At one stroke it eviscerates their experience argument against Obama. In the likely event of John McCain's demise, he proposes that we turn the nation over to a the political equivalent of a pet hamster. And suddenly, Obama-Biden is the indisputable choice for grown-ups.

The selection of Sarah Palin speaks to McCain's desperation and frankly bad judgment. It's such a silly move I'm waiting for the other clown shoe to drop.