True. Ten minutes with her would have revealed her for the idiot she is. Yet they put her on the ticket.
Actually...I'm told (and that's as far as my actual knowledge goes) that she was a reasonably capable governor, but terribly prepared both leading up to her nomination, and by her handlers. She was mostly concentrating on Alaska, which, fine that's where she was, and had no foreign policy chops - again, fine when running as John flippin' McCain's running mate in 2008, deflect and say you're learning and what you bring as a woman. He has that one covered anyway.
2008 was interesting, in that Obama won electorally against the heavily favored Clinton in the primaries - Bernie stans, note that the "DNC establishment" can be flattened pretty easily if you play your cards right. I've said before that I thought Mike Huckabee, of all people, would have been a great pick for McCain had the superdelegates given the win to Clinton then - he was at that point pretty good at speaking to nonwhite voters.
Man, how things change.
Palin could have discussed, say, the oppression of women in Saudi Arabia and how she would push that as a woman. Perfectly good answer, and the Saudi government just sucks in general. Instead, it's how physically close Alaska is to Russia, which...who cares? But then again, the right, and certain dimwits on the left, decry this as "Identity politics", while ignoring Dolt 45's obvious white male grievance nonsense - not even "I'll do this for you", so much as "I'll punish them for not being like you".
