Hopefully she'll reap the same result as Kerry for her flip-flopping too. Even Republicans are getting uneasy about her being cloistered away from having to answer questions about her record and about policy. I mean, are people really confident that she could face down Putin when she can't even handle Wolf Blitzer?
So far, I'm not too impressed. She read a speech someone else wrote. Then she went on the stump, avoiding all questions, and repeated the same speech. She's just executing the programming that others have written for her. Where's the real Sarah Palin? I think that's what McCain is trying to hide, the real Sarah Palin, because she's so far from the mainstream.
All we know are the facts from the record:
* She was greatly for the Bridge to Nowhere, then against it, whichever way the political winds blew her. That shows a lack of morals. She'll take any stance if it advances her career, or brings taxpayer dollars to Alaska.
* She's for excluding all forms of birth-control education except for the demonstrably disastrous abstinence-only method.
* She's for criminalizing abortion, even in cases of rape and incest.
* She's a proponent of creationism.
* She doesn't believe humans have anything to do with global warming.
* She doesn't care about endangered species, even ignoring her own scientific and environmental advisers to try to push the helicopter shooting of wolves and polar bears.
* As mayor and as governor, she's feasted on earmarks, at the expense of the taxpayers in states other than her own.
* She's lied by omission. She'll happily tell you she was against the Bridge to Nowhere, but doesn't mention she was also for it. She'll tell you she put the private jet on ebay, but neglects to mention that it didn't sell, and she was forced to sell it at loss, with the taxpayers eating the loss. She says she's for reform, yet in the area of gouging the taxpayer with earmarks, her city and her state are the most egregious abusers in the country.
* She doesn't know what the job of VP is. And all she wanted to hear about was how being VP would help Alaska.
* Her husband was/is part of a secessionist group. She's attended their meetings, and seems on good terms with them.
* She has completed 0 terms as governor of any state.
* She's against medicinal marijuana, even though she was willing to try it herself when doing so was merely breaking federal law, not state law.
* She has no national security experience, even if Cindy McCain thinks that that kind of experience floats across seas and seeps spontaneously into her.
And that's about it. Well, now that I look at the list, I guess I see why McCain's keeping her as sequestered from questions as possible. If that's all come out *before* a public vetting, who knows what else is out there. Just too risky to let the public get to hear from her too much, at least not until after the election and it's too late.