Sorry, Eugene, she is stupid . . . plus ignorant. You’re not playing with a full deck if you say you have foreign policy expertise is based on seeing Russia (or whatever) ftom your backyard. And. please tell me, what are these political skills of hers you pundits are talking about that are supposed to override her ignorance and her stupidity. The fruitfly comment?

Sarah Palin is the exposed voice behind the curtain in the Wizard of OZ. 

She was “chosen” because she is an IDIOT Eugene!!!
.....will Sarah Palin be anything other than a source of amusement and a ratings getter(and more importantly a reminderof what we don’t want EVER again).
You are in danger of being irrelevant.  If you continue to play the soft advocate for Palin (and her type of candidacy) and not expose the damage that a Palin type government would wreak, you are doing exactly what those that could not/would not question the War. You will quickly earn yourself a reputation as being dull, unintellecutal, passive and not worth listening to. Nice as you seem (on TV) I for one can not take anything you say or write seriously again after this rediculous article.

She is a lightweight. If she had to run from the beginning like everybody else she would have dissappeared after the first primary. Her strength is McCain’s weakness with the base. Without McCain she serves no purpose. She was the excuse the republican base needed to care about the election.

In Alaska, it’s understood that the local jock hero’s wife gets the mayor’s job. No one else wants it. When every Alaskan citizen gets a $3500 from the gov just for being Alaskan, its pretty easy to stay popular. The the US’s least populace state often has to turn to entusiastic amatuers to to run goverment. Luckily we don’t have to.

Obama/Biden has been vetted by 20 months on the campaign. 20 months!! By any standard of measuremment the Obama campaign has been the most focused and organized in history. That’s the kind experience Washington could use more of. If they run the country half as well as their campaign we are in for a real change.

It was to bad that McCain never vetted her friends that helped make it to the governorship.  They would have found out how she uses them getting up the ladder than pushing them off after she uses them.  We should not underestimate her.  She is a religious nut with her cult following.  If she brings her type of governing to the nation america will be lost.  Lets pray that the good people of AK will impeach her for all the wrong doing that she is doing in AK.

sorry, eugene.  your thinking here is wrong.  the only way palin secures credibility is if mccain wins.  & then mccain spends 4 years marginalizing her because of concern over his legacy.  dan quayle is her likely destiny.

palin is beside the point anyway.  i’m more distressed about the number of people who actually cheer her and buy into her narrative of lies.

why do people believe these lies especially when beleiving the lies will worsen their lives and better only the trumps of the world.  most of mccain supporters don’t make anywhere near $250000.  most don’t have health insurance.  but these people still cheer at giving corporations more tax cuts, believe that a $5000 credit for a family will buy them an affordable health insurance plan, even though they’ll be taxed on it.

why would so many people believe lies?  Believe that drilling in alaska will solve our energy problems.?

Mccain knows why these people will push his button on tuesday.  he learned this important lesson on SC in 2000.  Mcain knows that if he were running against a white man, he would lose.  But running against a minority-be it black or female-there would be a weakness built in. 

Hillary knew this, which is why her relationship to bill was so important.  Bill would have stabilized her weaknesses with his legacy. 

I agree that Palin will adapt, change her views to stay in the spotlight-she cares more about herself than any ideology.

I think I can answer the question on what some people see in her. They are looking at gender, ethnic origin, and “religious” ideology. They are wanting someone who “speaks their language” and she does. It seems to boil down to brain washing by the main stream media and our own public schools. At least with schools, they used to be places where there was a glimmer of unbiased information. The MSM never really was. Both have gotten worse over time. Don’t believe me, ask the American Indians! Ask descendants of African slaves. The list goes on and on.

Sonya Kerr, an Anchorage attorney specializing in disability rights, filed a lawsuit against the state and Palin, alleging that there are not enough services for kids with special needs, specifically a child with autism.

“I would say, welcome, Gov. Palin, to our reality and what we’ve been trying to deal with for a long time,” Kerr said. “I hope that it means that there will be support on a bipartisan basis for what people with disabilities need so we are not a bargaining chip in the political process.”

I think you are giving her WAY too much credit.  Fear not my friend.  I encourage her to run as a GOP candidate in 2012, she will fall flat on her face.

I do not think that Palin has the intellect. Then again, I did not think that Bush had any either. I have no idea what people see in her.

As he has been so often before Mr. Robinson is late. The real nature, capabilities, and ambitions of Sarah Palin have been cogently analyzed on this and several other websites by others already weeks ago. I cannot trust journalists who are consistently wrong and then cry mea culpa to try to save their shattered reputation. Unfortunately Mr. Robinson is one of them, namely a typical MSM scribe\analyst. I have never learned anything new from him, because what he reported was always old hat or wrong.

Her voice, that shrill eardrum piercing will be her downfall. When, and if she is allowed to make a State of the Union Address, it is all over but the crying. That down home trailer trash talk is for now, amusing.

If Eugene Robinson once underestimated Sarah Palin, I believe he is now overestimating her. Has any candidate for national office ever stumbled so badly when making his or her debut on the national stage? That has to tell us something about her, and not just John McCain’s campaign.

We will see, of course, and time will tell if she is ultimately able to stage a recovery. I have watched her debate as a candidate for governor of Alaska, and I can see why she defeated two very conventional, deadly dull, old-school politicians. No doubt, she represented a welcome change for small-population, last frontier, unconventional Alaska.

But the more I see and hear Sarah Palin perform on the national stage, the more convinced I am that she is not anywhere near being ready for national office. And, apparently, Alaskans themselves are learning a lot about her as well. So much so that her first task probably will be to survive as a viable politician at the state level, should the McCain/Palin ticket lose next Tuesday.

If she plays well she may get somewhere. But she reminds me of shark: eat no matter what; brain exists just to pick up the scent of food. She stabbed in the back prior governor of Alaska (her own party), she has lack of discipline to follow the advice of the puppetiers, she does not have intellect just instincts. Very successful for a preditor, but when you need to run a successful election compaign… you need something entirely different. You need a good team.

She cannot have good team because she is a terrible team player. Say you are a republican ‘grey cardinal’. Why would you want to place this barracuda in the front once you learned her ways? No way. She will not catch fish for you, she will fish for herself. Now, without some mighty force behind her back she is a complete zero.

Now as she was exposed, half of the americans will never vote for her no matter what. How can she win election if she will never-ever attract independents and centrists? And how on Earth can she win with the popular support that she get from those who are on farther right side than the center of the Republican party? Yes, she has guts, but where is the brain and where is her team? Not McCain’s but hers? I do not think she can win because she won hearts of Joes the Plumbers. Not enough plumbers in USA.

I think the Neocons knew Mcpain had no chance and wanted to expose Palin to the world for the next election. You just know they will have her involved in as much as possible so by 2012 she will indeed be a barracuda and will not be as dumb as she is now.

From where do you Americans get these educated buffoons?

Yep We have had the occasional one down under but we haven’t made a habit of it. Even our worst Prime Minister was head and shoulders, intellectually, way above a dozen ex U S Presidents I could name.  No I don’t mean academically I meant INTELLIGENCE. Neither is mutually exclusive of the other.

You can elect a poorly educated but brilliant minded person. You can elect a highly qualified numbskull.
Better you have a highly educated very intelligent person with INTEGRITY.  Now that last one is the difficult bit.  Just rate the participants in this race on a scale of 10.

“That she wasn’t ready to meet the national media became clear when she sat down with Katie Couric for those embarrassing sessions. But compare the bunny-in-headlights Sarah Palin of just a few weeks ago with the much more poised and confident Sarah Palin of today. Ignorance isn’t the same thing as stupidity. When Palin talks about economic policy these days, her sentences don’t meander into the Twilight Zone the way they once did. She has more to say about foreign policy besides the fact that Russia is just across the Bering Strait. She has learned much in a very short time.”

Let’s tell the truth and shame this devil. The truth is that after all this preparation, Palin is no more ready for primetime politics than she was the day Gramps gaped up the crack of her tail introducing her. Ready politicians don’t have to be buffed and polished on what to say to the likes of Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson. Not even George Dumya saw Russia from his back porch, as piss-poor as his foreign policy answers were. Prepared politicians don’t have to have the rules of debate modified to accomodate her limited cognition. Prepared candidates don’t tell the moderator that they aren’t going to respond to what is asked within the parameters established for both competitors in a debate to rattle dippily on endlessly, winking and grinning directly at the American people. Prepared politicians can answer the questions the moderator asks intelligently and know when and how to work in their little lame 3rd-grade jokes.

Say what you will, but Josie the lipstick laden clothes horse still has that moose-in-the-headlights glazed stare of dazed confusion. These days, though, that look is ruffled with petulent indignation that Real America thinks she’s a joke. Face it, it has to be tough for her to know that all the cool, popular, sensible voters support her opponent, while her base is made up of old farts in heat, voting for her with their dicks, and herds of reactionary, ham fisted, inbred children of the corn, screaming obsenities, expletives, and racist epiteths at everything that is not them. Until Palin co-opted the role, being a hockey mom was a good thing. Now crack whores are esteemed with more respect.

Palin’s seen the poll numbers. She’s heard all the jokes. She knows her handlers are holding her hugely responsible for Gramps’ tanking. And, she’s pissed about that. After all, she was tapped and followed the orders Rove’s task force gave her only to become the butt of some of the most hillarious politcal jokes written. Losing is one thing, but this circus is nothing signing dividend checks from the oil companies to her Alaska constituents would have ever prepared her to face.

Palin is stunned and overwhelmed. She’s drowning in fierce political waters, thrown under the bus by her handlers, and tossed overboard by Grampy way out of her depth. She’s just another useful and expendable rube for the GOP. Gramps used her in an attempt to combat Obama’s celebrity. And, Rove hoped Palin’s attractive presence was enough to keep the distraction of his anti-Hillary campaign alive long enough to shamelessly whore the GOP’s wrinkly gray - hot pink elephant ticket to conservatives. Then, the economy Grampy helped deregulate went and tanked. The GOP’s USS Titanic is now shipwrecked in a Perfect Storm. Well, Palin’s only attribute was looking good in a bathing suit, not actually swimming. She didn’t know the first thing about economically cyclonic waters, coming from pork-watered Alaska. Being an oil shill in the governor’s mansion hadn’t prepared her for the dollar being held together by bubble gum and rubber bands. So, she’s now flailing in stormy waters where angry, hungry sharks, whose 401K plans aren’t worth two sticks of gum now, are circling. Palin is discovering that it’s no longer all about her Eve. It’s the economy after all! That makes Palin a victim of the shark in the political version of Jaws.

Females in this country have had ceilings that have been barriers fought by intelligence and hard work; as well as, decency. T
The numerous female politicians on either the GOP or the Democrats that have earned their rightful way into male bastion political arena, have no love loss for Lying Palin. She represents no previous political female with any dignity that has come before her pathetic display of campaigning.
The “base” of the GOP has forfeited the label of being the “base” with the tremendous upcoming loss within the GOP this Nov. 4th.
It will be relegated to “fringe” or better yet, “hijackers” of the true values of the barely recognizable GOP.
Ethically challenged Palin is merely and exclusively only supported by the equally ethically challenged right wing fanatic kidnapping small “c” christian neoconers (formerly known as “base”).
The importance of Sarah the Liar is underscored by the equally lying Joe the lying plumber. Both American figures blatantly vacuous and pathetic full of sound and fury. The significant nothingness of their words only solidifies the irrelevance of the ” $150,000.00 Neiman Marxist” self anointed and christian base proclaimed new spokeswoman of liars, idiots and the highly uneducated Dobson/Limabaugh ditto head like clones.
Not only will the GOP take a hit this election; but, the right wing christian fanatics are henceforth recognized for the hate and lies that they have spewed during this worse historical period of the GOP these last few decades.
This GOP presidential campaigns exemplifies the non repented nature of all the ills that Republicans have collected for the last 50 years. It is the last vestige of a racist era, an intolerable period that is dying a quick death this century; in particular this election.
McCain and “false profit” Palin represent the past not only economically; but, so socially, religiously and finally.

After the nightmare of the Bush administration’s eight years, I doubt that the nation will be mesmerized by Sarah Palin any time soon. Her base is and will be the right wing of the right wing Republican Party. But the trainwrecks that the Republicans are leaving behind (Iraq, Katrina, destruction of the environment, looting of the Federal treasury,the Bush-Paulson bailout of the Wall Street Greed Machine, a staggering economy, etc. etc.) makes a quick comeback doubtful. No amount of lipstick is going to obscure that pig.

Palin’s insurmountable problem in 2012?  Bobby Jindal, Louisiana’s new centrist-populist governor.  Intellectually far superior to Palin with much broader appeal to the mainstream versis Palin’s narrower evangelical Christian based support.

Bobby Jindal represents, necessarily, the new face of the Republican party.  Or what’s left of it.

A Jindal/Palin ticket may work very well though.