Some of the criticisms of Palin are legit, but some are over-the-top, like that jackass, Charlie Gibson, who thought he had her with the so-called "Bush Doctrine."

Sure Palin may terrify us, but that won't matter to some Pro-Lifer or Always Lower Taxes person.  You need better arguments for them.

OTOH, my two retired neighbors were sweating the bailout package today.  I'm more worried about the people who have no financial cushion.  What happens to the working middle and lower classes when their paychecks stop?  If you think capital gains taxes stink, try getting hit with the penalties to dip into your 401k so you can pay bills!  That's if you have a 401k.

And then there's the matter of the health care gap...  Whaddya do when you can't afford COBRA, but your income hasn't dropped to Medicaid levels yet or you are on your state's waiting list?

Try this: say, I ran a want-ad in the newspaper. i said I was for hire as a brain surgeon. You called me to ask for a lobotomy. Would you expect me to know what a "lobotomy' was? Would you expect me to know what to use on your head, a precise surgical tool or an axe? Get it?

I know, "hire the handicapped" you say. In this case, I don't think so.

And about Saran.  Palin isn't a lawyer.  Hell, I can tell you Plessy v Ferguson and Brown v Board of Education, but that's about it.  If I wanted to know this, I'd go to law school.

Palin said recently that she did not travel because when she graduated from college (Did she really graduate? We shoud check this out.) because she "did not have parents that gave her a back pack and a passport like many college grauates did and ship them off to Europe."  Palin said she "learned about the world from books & edumacation; hell, so did nmost of us. When my Father was lucky enough to have Kodak, his place of employment, send him to the University of Birmingham in England for one year, yes, Kodak did buy my brother & sister and I a ticket to England. But i brought my own back pack and was very curious to see what europe was like. I spent 4 months hitch hiking around france, scottland, wales, england germany an witerland. with only about $400. (1973) This also included a total of on month spent in Paris.

i have also traveled to almost all of the continental USA & Canada in my life. i was so curious about alaska in 1973 that i learned  welding with the idea to work on the alaska pipeline. I ended up in aspen for a very long time instead. my curiosity alone let me see a large part of our world, to my advantage.  

The usuals should have been easy:
Plessy v Ferguson
Miranda v Arizona (which I think she p.o.'d JM on when Palin talked smack against Miranda rights)
Marbury v Madison
Brown v BOE of Topeka (which ironically the right winger/founder at Phelps churched in Topeka worked on)
Bush v Gore

You know, that guy that got elected PRESIDENT twice?

Not that I don't think he Veeps and Preses should be the best posssible, most non lawyers would have a hard time with this. I was a History major in college, I can't name more than one or two (admittedly I was Euorpean hist, but still)