Sarah's Sweaty Palms

It's two years after the election.  There's been ample time to educate oneself on the issues of the nation, to learn how to speak publicly, to debate... and yet Sarah Palin still can't handle simple, softball questions without writing shit down on her hand.

She wrote on her hand the following notes: "energy"; "budget cuts" ("budget" was then crossed out and replaced with "tax" -- presumably because a call for budget cuts would require sticky specifics); and "lift American spirits" -- the last being a call for more reliance on God in our politics.

The questions would have been softballs even if she hadn't seen them in advance. The answers are so boilerplate that a candidate for city council wouldn't need prompting.

  I wouldn't trust her to help an old lady cross the street.  And I'm still not scared that she'll surprise us and make it past the Primaries, should she run in '12.