I am bored with the Palin issue...she's fine as an Alaskan gov but isn't qualified to run for pres or VP in 2012. On the other hand, the treatment she received by the media and many on the left was quite unfair.
Yes, they were rough on her.
BUT
They knew she was unqualified and a fraud. And they know mccain snuck her in at the last possible minute (introduced into spotlight from obscurity a scant 8 or 9 weeks before election day)
With a YEAR to evaluate her, most ppl would realize she was unprepared/underqualified to run the free world.
With TWO MONTHS to give 4 interviews then a bunch of canned speeches, mccain really could have hidden her ignorance.
Most VP selections, historically, went on many, many sunday AM talk shows, larry King, and everything else, to campaign for their ticket and sell themselves to america.
I said this before, and I'll say it againPalin peaked that morning she was introduced (and she had a 64% approval rate with potential voters that Friday morning).
From there on, whether it was her answer "I read every newspaper, katie" or shooting moose, or 18 months experience, or firing brother-in-law, or shit job raising her dropout kids...
From there on, the voters were going to be picked off, one by one.