Sarah Palin: She's No Hillary Clinton

• "Not convinced" global warming is man-made (MSNBC)
  
• Evangelical Christian who does not support abortion rights except to save the life of the mother. Just so we're clear: this includes denying abortions in cases of rape and incest (see my earlier posts). Of course, this should be no indictment of Gov. Palin. This is also the platform of the Republican party.
  
• Staunchly supports drilling in ANWAR (Wall Street Journal)
  
• Wants to have polar bears removed from the Endangered Species List (NY Times) and sued the Interior Department to have the decision reversed (Grist)
  
• Has only held state-wide office for two years, has no national or international experience, and only entered politics 12 years ago when she was elected mayor of Washilla, AK (pop 5470). That's smaller than DuQuoin, IL, the nearby town where I go to buy groceries.
  
• Supports the teaching of creationism in public schools (Boston Globe interview). At least she has the balls not to couch it in "intelligent design" terms.

Sarah Palin is governor of Alaska (our largest state!!) with a population of 670,000. That's less than the population of DuPage (930,000), Will (673,583), or Cook (5,288,000) counties in Illinois. I picked these counties because I lived in all three of them when I lived in Chicago and neighboring suburbs.

• Or as the Dallas News put it: Governor of Alaska = Mayor of Memphis? I'm not voting for the mayor of Memphis to be veep either.
• Robert Eisenberg over at the Huffington post calls her The Worst Vice-President Nominee in US History.
• Linda Berthgold calls her The VP Choice that Lost the Presidency for McCain. Van Jones tells Palin: You're No Hillary Clinton. I couldn't have said it better myself.
  
• The comparisons to Dan Quayle are too numerous to cite.
• Then again, she is apparently "smoking hot".
  

Man, this election was exciting, exhilarating and left me breathless right up until the Republicans gave up.

Barack and Biden should call FTD ASAP

Do you think FTD makes a "WTF Were You Thinking?" bouquet? McCain's announcement of Gov. Palin of Alaska as his running mate was, IMO, a clear indication that he has ceded this election.

I thought there could be worse Republican presidents than John McCain. Oh Pat Robertson and that dipshit from Arkansas spring to mind. However, after months of bashing Obama for his youth and inexperience, in his first "presidential" decision, John McCain chose to put someone younger than Obama, with less experience than Obama a heartbeat away from the presidency. Probably not the smartest idea when the heartbeat in question is 72 freaking years old (!!).

Am I alone here? If I was a Republican (ok, let's savor the irony of that statement for a moment), I'd run screaming from the party today.