Half baked Alaska

All the talk has been about John McCains judgment in selecting Sarah Palin, and I myself have used a few strong words in that regard.

However, no-one has yet talked about Sarah Palin's faulty judgment in accepting the nomination for VP. Clearly, she is unqualified, right now, to serve either in that capacity, or as the President. In my view, she should know better and declined the offer, particularly in light of her on-going troubles in her state. That she didn't tells you a couple of things: either Sarah Palin is too vain, naive or stupid to realize her predicament; or she thinks John McCains campaign is stone cold dead, right now, and is using the opportunity to earn some chits with the rest of the Republican Party that she can redeem in the future, say 2016.

The difficulty for her is that she's a fringe player, both geographically and politically, and not close to the Republicans central power base. It's a play, if she's not careful, that could split the Republican Party for years to come, between the social/religious conservatives, and the fiscal/constitutional conservatives.