Steven will be entering law school soon and I am in law school now. What was the question? Whether or not Sarah Palin is incompetent? That is a resounding yes.
And whether or not these stories are bogus is a most definite no. Much of what I have read has shown a fairly consistent message, that Palin quickly became a liability to the McCain campaign after they picked her because of not necessarily her lack of political experience, but her lack of general political knowledge. Once that Katie Couric interview came out, which was a softball interview, I have read from many sources that the McCain campaign put Palin in lockdown so that she couldn't even be in front of a camera unless they wanted her to be there.
There was evidence of infighting with in the McCain campaign weeks ago (CNN had a frontpage article on it about 3-4 weeks ago), and even days after they picked her they were finding out all kinds of things they didn't know since the vetting process was abbreviated. McCain definitely picked her without having a lot of time to carefully consider the choice since his numbers in the polls were drooping. I really don't think anyone can argue that she was his first choice.
And its not like the information is just spontaneously arising from the boogeyman that is the liberal media. The stories have come from all over, and all touch on a few resounding themes, that McCain took a risk in picking Palin and that she turned out to be way more unqualified than he expected. Its really not surprising that this extra dirt is spilling out after the campaign (as it always does since people within the campaign try to keep a lid on it so that it doesn't affect the election), and like I said all of these recent stories seem to be originating from the campaign itself.
Not to mention the fact that there is a dearth of evidence out there that Palin IS politically knowledgeable, so people trying to claim these stories are bogus really don't have much evidence to work with to claim that they AREN'T bogus.
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
