The more Republican spokespeople keep citing the PTA and being close to Russia as elements of her qualifications, the easier it gets to make the (legitimate, IMO) argument that her inexperience isn't in the same ballpark as Obama's.

No kidding.

The "Alaska is close to Russia" thing is the both funniest & most pathetic mad scramble for legitimacy I think I've ever heard. It's like an SNL parody of something a real person might say.

(What I'd also like to see more of a focus on - not just that she has no foreign policy experience but that she has demonstrated not even the slightest interest in it. I think that's more troubling than her actual background in some ways.)

Considering she didn't get her passport until last year, when she went to Kuwait and Iraq (with a layover in Ireland that she's claiming counts for a visit to a third country), they can definitely hammer her on foreign policy experience.

Weren't both of these basically true for Bush? And both attacked fruitlessly?

The "Alaska is close to Russia" thing is the both funniest & most pathetic mad scramble for legitimacy I think I've ever heard. It's like an SNL parody of something a real person might say.

They said the same thing about Texas & Mexico. And yet, it was not absurd enough.

More and more, I think she's Bush II. Deliberately.

Weren't both of these basically true for Bush?

Yep. Although in Bush's defense, he did cite Cheney as having lots o' foreign policy cred. So maybe Republicans think that only one person on the presidential ticket needs any foreign policy interest.

They said the same thing about Texas & Mexico.

Okay, but at least Texas and Mexico share a border that hasn't been underwater since before the beginnings of human civilization.

I wanna see Biden ask her in the debate, "Do you think Alaska should secede from the United States?" And, "Do you still agree with the following Alaskan Independence Party positions?: '[a] belief that the federal government should be dissolved if gun rights are ever abolished or curtailed, a belief that the federal government is in breach of the Constitution, and complete opposition to environmental regulations and public ownership of Alaskan land.'"

at least Texas and Mexico share a border that hasn't been underwater since before the beginnings of human civilization.

Maybe global warming is an Alaskan plot to make the Bering Strait deeper, thus making it harder for the Russians to invade....

She's got all the signs of being able to be led easily by pushing the right buttons, that worked so well for the Neocons with Bush II.

Maybe global warming is an Alaskan plot to make the Bering Strait deeper, thus making it harder for the Russians to invade....

Ooh, they're crafty!

Yet another Palin scandal, this one worse than all the others:

ALASKA PIPELINE: Amy Gwin, 43, of University City, grew up in Alaska and competed in the Miss Wasilla, Alaska, competition in 1984 against GOP vice presidential choice Sarah Palin. Gwin said Friday that she won the Miss Congeniality award in the competition, although Palin's Wikipedia entry says she won the contest — and the Miss Congeniality award. Gwin was a year behind Palin, now 44, at Wasilla High School, which had about 800 students. Gwin said Palin was "a high school star in a good way," a beauty who got good grades and excelled at athletics. Gwin, who was president of her class, does not recall Palin holding school office. The Wikipedia entry on Palin said she was head of the school's Fellowship of Christian Athletes and captain of the basketball team.

Palin was a high school star, says schoolmate

I think that the best evidence of Palin's unfitness for office is accepting McCain's invitation. The VPship isn't a lottery prize that you take without serious and long consideration. At least Romney and Lieberman and a long list of other possible choices he had had seriously sought high office and had a long time to consider what they were getting into.