1.  Obviously it is an abuse of the political system to select someone so manifestly unqualified, potentially for U.S. President.  A shocking abuse.

2. It frankly is cruel to her, as well.  She is a viciously mean person herself and she doesn't deserver our sympathy, but objectively, it is still cruel to ask her to make such an utter fool of herself, just as it would be cruel to torture any viciously mean person.

3. I live abroad so I don't know how much this has been said, but it is deeply unpatriotic, obviously.  Vice-Presidents can't be recalled.  If they should somehow get elected, she's got this job.  And if anything should happen to him, she's President.  There's no second chance, that's the deal.  Now, how could you pass yourself off as a patriot, parade around these unspeakably arrogant signs about "Country First," and then willfully put your country at such grave risk?  You gotta wanna win pretty bad, and care very little indeed for the interests of your country. 

Here's the article showing how Klondike Barbie is proposing a transparency-in-budgeting program that Obama already had passed into law two years ago and which is now operating.  http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/18/palins-transparency-proposal-already-exists-in-dc/

What intrigues me is the comments by readers are every bit as deferential to "The Governor" as we are ("What an idiot this woman is!," etc.).  I expected more of "Dems will be crying when they lose, blah-blah."  Almost every reader regards her instead as a buffoon, with only about as many exceptions as we have trolls.  Very interesting. 

I really think the Moose Queen's honeymoon is over.