In A Time Where Egregious Ignorance is a Virtue...

"It was my understanding that there would be no math in this debate..."

GOP VP hopeful Sarah Palin presented herself to the delegates at the Republican Convention (and the nation) as a tough, straight-talking gal, straight out of a saloon in the Alaskan wildnerness, ready to take down those varmint liberals in Washington with their high taxes and elitist ways....dadgumit! Nevermind that it was the conservative GOP majorities in Congress along with their president that steered this country into disaster over the better part of the last eight years - Sarah's got libruls to hunt! Yee-hah!

It's a shame, then, that tough talk can't cover for a mind-numbing display of ignorance on the most important topic of the day - the housing crisis and the impending federal bailout of the nation's two largest mortgage finance firms, Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae:

McCain's running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, speaking in Colorado Springs,
Colo., said Fannie and Freddie had "gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers." The companies, however, aren't taxpayer funded but operate as private companies. The takeover may result in a taxpayer bailout during
reorganization...

It is clear how atrocious McCain's pick is when one considers how likely it is that this beauty pageant also-ran will more than likely occupy the Oval Office if McCain is elected. That the 2nd spot on the national ticket doesn't even know the two biggest players in the housing crisis and institutions critical to this nation's mortgage debt is beyond laughable....it's bloody depressing.

It's no wonder that the McCain campaign is keeping Tough-Talkin Sarah in a virtual bubble for the remainder of the campaign. The "hockey mom" can't keep her yap shut about what pussies Obama and Biden are in her canned campaign speeches, but Gawd forbid she submit herself to take questions from the press. I saw today that the McCain campaign consented to release Gov. Palin into the wild for a series of multiple interviews this week with ABC's Charlie Gibson. While I hope that Gibson is not intimidated by the GOP's whining, I won't hold my breath.

I don't mean this as a criticism of the McCain campaign's strategy to keep this neophyte, fundamentalist nutjob away from the general public....it's their campaign and they can run it however they like. They are not obligated to make Gov. Palin available for press interviews and such. I'd probably do the same thing, if I were in their shoes.

That doesn't mean that the voters deserve to be insulted by a candidate of such pitful qualifications and total lack of preparation on the issues that matter.