This Palin thing is just possibly the most entertaining political thing I could ever remember as it's the joke gift that just keeps on giving.  These past few days, it's almost impossible to not check the internet every fifteen minutes to see what the latest is. Well, I do that anyways but you know what I mean.

Besides the fact it's a blunder of preposterous proportions, it's been highly entertaining watching the Olympic level gymnastics coming from pundits and politicians from the right who have in the past few days basically thrown out everything they've said about anything over the past ten years in an attempt to defend something that even they probably know is undefendable.  How could anybody think this whole thing is a good thing and how can anybody not be utterly blown away by the lack of thought McCain put into it?

The pick, however, does kind of scare me.  Because while the pick is almost farcical (somebody I read described it as "so beyond Fail that it needs a new word to describe it") there is still the matter of the great judgement and wisdom of the American people.  They could, for instance, see her lack of experience and trailer trash persona as making her merely "down to earth" and "likeable" and decide to hop on the Sarah love train.  Or people could look at the media coverage (which isn't nearly as bad or on top of it as the blogs) and make people feel sorry for her and all the coverage by a press that's actually doing it's job that they also start feeling that love.  Or that it could come off so sexist that the Hillary fanatics vote Republican.

In other words, knowing how politics work in this country, her nomination is probably going to turn out to be a great thing for the Republicans.  Plus, she's not black and has a funny name.