re: #65 FrogMarch

I remember that moment. There was a seismic shift in the force.
It all went to hell after that. Certainly too, the Sarah luster wore off. She dared to mock the one and then her daughter became pregnant, and then we discovered, thanks to Sully, that Palin faked her own pregnancy. / and that Palin could see Russia from her house…

I wonder, If McCain would have chosen someone else, would he have won?
I doubt it.

McCain picked Sarah Palin for one reason only — religious right leaders like James Dobson and others were on the verge of telling their millions of followers not to vote for McCain, because of his moderate stance on abortion. Palin was brought on board to get Dobson to relax his opposition to McCain, and it worked.

I lost respect for Sarah Palin after her disastrous interview with Katie Couric, and her anti-science statements such as the infamous “wasting money on studying fruit flies in Paris, France” comment. And then when she resigned as Alaska governor in the middle of her elected term, I lost whatever respect I had left. (Which wasn’t much.)

And then she chose a far right fanatic who collaborated with a white supremacist to ghostwrite her book.