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Palin - a letter away from pain and a step from the exit.

I recently watched Katie Couric interview Sarah Palin. I believe the notable visceral pain I felt during the interview is probably a general phenomenon that makes its unique appearance when you realize that matters of great importance may befall hands of great incompetence. It was as if my brain felt it necessary to cause nauseous discontent throughout my whole body to send a strong clear warning for what may happen should this person become the Vice President of the United States (the possibility of her being President, was probably not consciously considered at the time out of the instinct of self-preservation).

I submit the videos with a warning. If you are intelligent with a faint-heart, Republican or Democrat, you might be better off, for health reasons, reading the transcript instead, or Fareed Zakaria’s obvious conclusion.

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Part 2

For the good of the United States and the world, this person should step down from the Vice Presidency, and leave it to someone more qualified. Running a world power is not like running the state of Alaska or a small town in it. It takes a lot more and she doesn’t have it. And NO, being close to Russia DOES NOT MAKE YOU AN EXPERT IN FOREIGN POLICY. Such things are not gained by osmosis. That’s like saying I have experience in physics because my neighbor is Stephen Hawking. So do the Republican party a favor and step down. This would constitute a bipartisan act of compassion by reducing the agonizing pain both Democrats and Republicans feel when watching her interviews, but it would also be religiously considerate: It would keep God less busy by reducing the number of believers who ask God what the Hell was McCain thinking when in times of severe economic crisis Palin was preferred over someone like Mitt Romney. And because people are going to be asking such questions, I think McCain will lose a lot of credibility over his VP choice, as time goes by and people realize just how unsuitable Sarah Palin really is. If McCain did not know she wasn’t qualified for the job - it casts doubt on the quality of his judgment. If he did, then it casts doubt on his motives because it seems he did it out of political expediency in the hopes of providing a surrogate Hillary Clinton (though it’s insulting for Clinton to be compared with Palin) that would woo Clinton voters who don’t want to vote for Obama and in order to excite the Evangelicals who were not that enthusiastic by his relatively tepid religiosity and disagreement on certain issues they consider sacrosanct.

Jack Cafferty said it as it is:

Sarah Palin, be a maverick. Step down…before you’re kicked out.