OK Virgil, one longtime independent to another, let’s try your line of reasoning.

You don’t think Palin should be “a heartbeat away” (a tiresome expression that’s sure to get worse) because she won a scholarship in a small town beauty contest 25 years ago? Would that be before or after Barack Hussein Obama was a madrassah student in Indonesia?

He was, wasn’t he? Sure, it was a long time ago but something like that “makes it easy for me to decide whom to vote for.”

I’ll take a former Miss Wasilla (known at the time as Sarah Barracuda and currently Commander in Chief of the Alaska National Guard) over a thin-skinned, secretive, charismatic media darling who may or may not have been schooled by jihadis during his childhood.

Fair enough? No?!?!?!! Sorry, we all have our prejudices.