Sarah Palin winked her way through the debates-not cool

The Palin-Biden debate was a real barn burner! Well, not really. Palin, will you stop winking at the camera. Careful, you might get repetitive eye strain and you might break your designer glasses which everyone is trying to find on eBay and other places. Her use of colloquialisms and idioms would make an English professor cry. I thought the idea of debates was to make yourself seem credible. Instead, the use of language alone made her seem that she was not engaged in the task at hand and hopelessly unqualified. Palin was not aware of the current Iraq war policy nor the number of US military personnel stationed there. As for the rest of the McCain policy talking points, there were no other in-depth separation or announcements of note. In fact, she really didn't go into any of them at all. Refer to the self-looping tape of "We will do better". "We will reform Washington". "We have a better policy". If that's all she is going to say, why not just put it on tape for a hypnotherapist to use to put us to sleep. It may be more effective than Ambien. Why doesn't she just say what she means and give us some specifics? Oh, right, I forgot - nobody briefs her or if they do it simply does not stick in here memory. This is the person who is supposed to be the Republican Vice-president should they win. I shudder to think that she can find her way to the White House situation room. In the debate, although not directly, Palin unwittingly acknowledged she would be tolerant of adult Americans who are involved in alternative relationships. I wonder how many votes she will get from gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, bondage, sado-masochistic, dominant, submissive etc. etc. etc. with that remark. At that moment you can also hear conservative Republicans screaming because she fell into the trap of pledging pseudo-support for something that if the religious right had its way, would kill people or jail people for participating in anything they don't consider the 'norm'. In the end, she has always appeared as if she was a marionette for the Republicans. On the other hand she is so conservative that Alaska is one of the few states where rape victims have to pay for their own rape kit to save the state a few bucks. She also believes in creationism. So, the Republicans have a fiscal conservative and a religious fundamentalist. Fun for the whole Republican family, well, most of them, aka values voters. Finally, the biggest thing I get a chuckle out of is the first time Sarah Palin was asked what kind of reading material she liked. Her first response was that she read magazines like everyone else in America. With that statement, she ducked the question. Twenty-four hours later, some asked the same question but this time she use the names of publications such as the New York Times, People magazine and a couple of celebrity magazines. The point I am trying to make is that she is making it seem that somebody had to give her magazine titles to spit out and answer the question instead of some pleasant spontaneity. An this is the vice-president Republicans want!!! A female version of Bush!!! Shudder!!!!!!!!