In order to believe that Sarah Palin is even close to being qualified to serve as vice president, much less president, you have to be operating on pure ideology and zero pragmaticism. One has to wonder what a candidate would have to do in order to look incompetent to some voters. Anybody who has an ounce of understanding of the world outside of her own state, which ranks 48th in total population, would not have performed as embarrassingly as Palin did in her network interviews. Her behavior in the campaign since those disastrous interviews has revealed a mean-spirited, sarcastic ideologue who could not care less about the divisiveness of her remarks. Some of this I put on John McCain, since it is his campaign, but Palin delivers her McCarthyesque assaults with a little too much giddy pleasure. For somebody who promotes herself as an outsider who is going to reform Washington, she sounds remarkably similar to the partisan insiders she apparently loathes. If, by some miracle, she were to end up in the White House, how could she possibly work with the people “across the aisle” whom she has ridiculed and attacked for the last 2 months? This is just one reason why a vote for McCain/Palin is vote for more of the same, and a grid-locked government.
