See here and here.
Don't worry, comrades. As Gary Hart says here (and you should really watch the whole thing; I think Hart's analysis is precisely right throughout, especially his advice to the Obama campaign), Palin's a media phenomenon, and those things fade. As the American people learn more about her, they're going to find out there's a lot not to like.
In the long term, Palin can't help McCain; she can only not hurt him. And I'm not sure that's particularly likely. She will fuck up on the trail, more than once, and possibly spectacularly.
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She didn't sound like she had ever heard the phrase "Bush Doctrine" before, either, at least to prefer to preemptive action -- when asked "Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?", she leaned back and retorted, "In what sense, Charlie?"I'm slobbering all over myself in anticipation of the next month.
... "How would you interpret it [the Bush Doctrine]?" he went on.
She replied, "His worldview?"
