The Cliffs Notes Candidate

If there was ever a candidate that was in way over their head, Sarah Palin is it. No response is too vapid, cliche, or simplistic for her.

"John McCain is a maverick because people call him a maverick."
"I have foreign policy experience because my state is next door to Russia."

And from her painfully inept interview with Katie Couric, when asked about the Russia/Alaska/Foreign Policy issue, here was her response:

"It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to, to our state."

Last time I checked, the only areas of Russia that are close to Alaska are barely inhabited. In fact, Russia's national governmental seat is in MOSCOW, which is actually in EUROPE not ASIA! 4300 miles from Wasilla, Alaska. I doubt very seriously that the Alaska Air National Guard is regularly on the lookout for Russian diplomatic flights over Palin's home town.