I'm a right leaning independent who considered voting for McCain, but she and his healthcare plan (worse than Obama's for older people working in a predominately young person's industry) scared me off. Honestly, I may have voted for him even with his HC bill had it not been for that nut job. He only chose her cause she was a female and I'm sure he regrets it now.

I was on the fence until he nominated her - although I was getting annoyed by how he was kissing the ass of the right to get the nomination - but once the Crazy was in the mix, that was pretty much all she wrote from my POV for any Republican that year

I like to think that she was being literal when she said "North Korean allies". It's just so much funnier picturing her getting along famously with Kim Jong-Il, lounging around at the golf course, each one claiming they shot about a 44 for a round of 18.

Can I shoot a 44 (at them) while they play a round of 18?

@Draugnar, @stratagos: I was leaning McCain until I saw her debate with Biden. Ridiculous. I can't believe anyone took her (or the nomination) seriously.

The best thing ever happened to Obama was when McCain announced her as his running mate. I really wonder if McCain wasn't paid by the Dems to select her so they could win it.

I like to think he picked her for the lulz. You know, since Bush had lost the election for the right anyway.

I think he thought having the first woman in that role would be the boost to take some air out of the Obama nation thing. And he may have thought early on that Obama would pick Hillary Clinton.

Whatever the case, I sure hope she doesn't run for president and win the nomination. I would have to decide between the lesser of two evils: Obama, big gov etc, somewhat competent; and Palin, small gov. etc, but would be largely incompetent in the white house.

Besides, she could never win, even against Obama and his falling popularity, and she would drag the small gov. group down with her in 2012 in the process, at least to some extent.

But, if she won, we could have a lot more Bush-style quotables like the above lol

great link!!

I would find it funny if she wasn't someone with power and influence over a lot of other people. It scares me that there's even the slightest chance that she could one day be president.

"Establishment" republicans are in a bit of a pickle, how to harness the tea party but defeat Palin and make her lose the nomination process without looking like they are trashing her, she (like the tea party and the religious right) thrives of perceived victimhood. I suspect the word we will start hearing from Romney and the rest will be "electability" , Tis a nice way of saying Palin is a useless piece of trash who has no chance of defeating Obama.
How bad is it? well its bad enough that my wife is considering giving up Dancing with the Stars due to bristol annoying the hell out of her:)

@ sean, you can tell your wife that she isn't the only one furious. Every woman in my family watches that show and were pissed she made it that far. And if Palin is the Republican candidate, then we will have to deal with another 4 years of Obama. Sane people should not vote for her.

I wonder if Palin knows how many states there are? Obama man sure didn't. If we can cut the man who runs the 50 United States some slack, why not her?

As a Bristolian citizen, I'd just like to say we're unimpressed with the way she's stolen our great cities name!

ha Obama didn't know how many states there are?

Bristol is one of The United Kingdom`s "great" cities ?
:)

Remember when she though Africa was a country?

Oh give me a break. It's a slip-of-the-tongue and she corrected herself. Obama discussed the "57 states" (also a slip of the tongue) and a democratic senator discussed how we can't have too many people on Guam because it might capsize and sink. But those are democrats, so hey, can't report on that because it doesn't work with out theme about Obama being brilliant.

Hey, rhydon, I'm a republican (or at least a right leaning independent who votes in the republican primaries) and even I know she is a dangerous fool. Give me Mitt Romney or Mike Huckabee any day.

How is she with cigars? Seems to be an American presidential thang.

Ya know, maybe if we got an honest to God cigar smoker in office who understood the value of a real cuban, we could get that damn embargo lifted.

rhydon, the fact that other people are also ignorant doesn't mean that Palin is not ignorant. Also, Palin has a long documented history of extreme ignorance, so her "slip of the tongue" was treated as another such case - or are you claiming that every time she shows how ignorant she is it is simply a slip of the tongue. If this was the first time she said something stupid, I doubt anyone would make a big deal out of it, but the point here is that this is not even close to the first time. If Obama repeatedly and publicly stated incorrect facts about world affairs or geography, then I'd bet there would be tons of stories about it (and if there weren't then there should be).

I'm a semi-hawk fiscal conservative social liberal who votes independent (but more Demo than Repub) and when I listened to the clip, I thought it was just a slip of the tongue. I fully support those examples that show her ignorance of the world - but I don't think this was one of them. We've all done an "oops" - we just aren't under a microscope. (Now when we claim that being able to SEE Russia is a foreign policy credential - THAT one counts). But not every one counts.

The more I look at it, I agree with Indy. At first I went "Oh great, Palin AGAIN..." but it seems like this was an "oops" moment.

Wait, when did President Obama say there were 57 states?

Palin's funny who writes her jokes?

He was talking about having visited 47 states as he had one more to go and his staff told him he couldn't do Alaska and Hawaii. Obviously, he was doing the math as he was saying it and slip of the tongued 57 instead of 47. And it gets misquoted that he said there were 57 states whne his tongue slip was that he had visited 57 of the states instead of 47.

rhydn:
That Democrat was trying to use a figure of speech to say that Guam's environment couldn't handle more personnel stationed there. Look at the clip in context. He meant to say what he did. It was not a slip of the tounge.

I never saw that Obama said anything about 57 states myself, but from another forum I gathered that he was trying to refer to the fact that he had visited 47 of the contiguous 48 states. Obviously, an exhausted man is capable of saying 57 instead of 48. (Amusingly, there actually are 57 divisions of the U. S.: the fifty states, DC, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the U. S. Virgin Islands, the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam and the United States Minor Outlying Islands.)

As for Palin, first of all, she did not correct herself. She talked about helping North Korea twice before Glenn Beck corrected her, and then she didn't even acknowledge that she had made a mistake or slip-of-the-tounge. But her mistake is serious in that it shows the superficiality of her knowledge of the problem and of geography itself. If she had been educated about the issue, that is, the Korean conflict, for years and had brooded over its solution she simply never would have made that mistake. Such a mistake, in fact, would be impossible. If confusing two whole countries is a slip-of-the-tounge, doesn't that by definition mean that she knows of little difference between the two Koreas? I fear that compression is lacking more than anything, and certainly her comments that surrounded this 'slip' did not prove otherwise.