Palin Is Ready? Please.

When the time comes to analyze the causes of the Republican defeat this next November, Mrs. Palin is going to be very close to the top of the list. On the other hand, she's brought a rush of fresh air to involuntary comedy. Her performances on this past TV interviews will someday be legendary. The expresion "To pull a Palin", will have a distinguished place in pols vocabulary.

Isn't McCain a Senator too, without any executive experience? Why does nobody bring this up? Pallin experience is irrelevant when she is a 1) religious fanatic (they speak in tongues at her church), would expect a 12 yr old raped by her father to keep the baby, couldn't fill in the country names of a blank map of the middle east, and she said this nonsense (among other nonsensical ignorant ramblings in one of her 2 interviews): "We--we do--it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where--where do they go? ??? ??? Wha? This woman has only given 2 interviews in the time Biden has given 84! Rural people should be insulted that she is supposed to be the embodiment of them! She???s a walking stereotype of provinciality!

I think it's time for McCain to withdrwaw from the race and endorse Obama. If he has any lucid moments, he would have to agree that his selection of Palin proves he is unfit to be Commander in Chief.

As an independent and, initially a supporter of John McCain, I think Fareed Zakaria's analysis is right on target. I feel that John McCain made a purely political decision in selecting Sarah Palin. This is a decision that could have disastrous ramifications should something happen to Senator McCain. I actually feel betrayed by a person who I truly did think was a man of principle. This decision wasn't principle, it was pure politics.

sunnjford,. People have their reasons to vote for McCain, although I am not one of them. They are not stupid. Many of them remember McCain for being a man of principle before the last 3 years. Many of them a're afraid of Obama giving in to leftist pitfalls when in office. Biden they know as a Democrat who wouldn't do that. But they don't know that about Obama yet. If McCain wins, which will upset me to no end, I'm not going to spread anti-American poison

What a pile of CRAP!!!!! And I mean CRAP!!!!!!

What a pile of CRAP!!!!!!!!

As mentioned in one of my earlier comments about Palin:

Sooner than later, she will wish upon a star that will take her far, far, away from all this nightmare of a dream she is dreaming, wishing that she was back cleaning diapers and settling in at the end of the day's work with her 'loving' husband and her sometime lover (in between) the sheets of bedlam, (the popular name for the hospital of St. Mary of Bethlehem in London, an insane asylum, away from the scene of uproar and confusion), that she is drawn into by dear Johnny McLame who believes she is the "IT" factor to his success.

Wrong!!!

My cat Freedom knows more about governance than she does; at least, he is fair in being nice to me when I feed him, he would make a better VP than she would...he knows the difference and does not play favourites, and is not nasty when things do not go his way.

Palin's nickname here is Miss Clueless.

The Repubs are not protecting her against the reporters; they are protecting her from herself, who, every time she opens her mouth is proof of evidence that she is getting them into hot water - due to her lack in every way, manner, shape and form.

This is not a prom night or a beauty pageant contest...this is war...with countries... with whom she has absolutely no idea as to how they think, live, philosophise and everything else combined, let alone be an accessory in alleviating pressures or negotiations of any kind with them. Are you kidding me...?

Ms. Palin is delving into serious stuff that involves mankind's interests on a global level. This woman is a time bomb just waiting to explode. She is aware of that and I honestly do not believe that she is naive to the degree that the position she is in now as VP is not a cruel position to be in. I don't believe she sleeps at night... her vibration of fearfulness is reaching all areas of the world; everybody's talking the same tongue...GET THIS DANGEROUS WOMAN OUT OF THERE... FAST!!!

The lede should have ended not "please, but "puh-leeze." People younger than I am would have understood your point immediately.

On the other hand, since folks seem to feel they don't need to be informed at all these days, maybe your lede may have at least attracted their attention. We can only hope.

McCain's strategy. He believes Sarah Palin can help him win this election. If he does win, Sarah Palin will resign and he will appoint his friend Joe Lieberman the new VP (he already said; if I want someone to resign, believe me, they will resign). He knows he will not have the support from the republican base with Lieberman on the ticket. This must be the explanation. If not, his mother should have him commited.

In the lede, you should have said "Puhleeze," All considered, it might have made your point just in that one line.

The best comment I've seen so far is from a Rebublican operative who said, basically, that the Jaws of Life couldn't pry a coherent sentence out of Palin. Has it not become painfully obvious that this Trophy Veep is way in over her head? What else do we need to see? McCain shields her from reporters, she is only let out of the cage when GOP operatives think she may rise to the occasion (but doesn't) in one-to-one interviews, and she consistently shows that she can't string 2 sentences together that make any sense whatsoever. She's one melanoma from being the President if McCain is elected. If this doesn't send fear up your spines, then you deserve what you get.

I'm sure the Saturday Night Live staff hopes Palin stays in the race for the duration. She's lightened their writing load considerably. They don't even have to scrpt skits for Tina Fey's Palin. Just hand Tina the transcript from Palin's own most recent interview and let let her breeze through it. Fey's airhead Palin was a hoot last night -- until I realized that those disconnected, meadering words were straight out of Silly Sarah's own mouth.