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This is where you cling to the hope that her lack of image control savvy, at least on the national scale, will sink her. But she's a quick study, at least when it comes to things that are to her benefit. She will learn soon enough to break out the fake empathy when expedient.

As for that debate, hell, it was a one-girl Deb Ball, a coming out party for Li'l Miss Sarah. She is here to stay, people, whether McCain wins or loses. Sarah Palin, Fox news commentator, is a given. Senator Sarah won't be far off. She's had a taste of The Show, and she ain't goin' back to the minors. The talent portion of the debate was lagging, though. Her acting just couldn't compete with Biden's choking up, especially when she cast herself as Lady Reagan by cheaply intoning the immortal Ronnie-ism, "There you go again." (Boy, she was just waiting to spring that one, wasn't she?) Of course, she also called Biden "Obiden," so maybe, like Ronnie, she has a touch of incipient Alzheimer's.

I tell you, Palin is simply The Beast. She frightens me far more than Bush ever did, and so does her smiling moron impregnator. Imagine such banal, self-righteous pissants having power over a whole nation. It stops the blood. These people belong behind cash registers in Wal-Mart (apologies to the decent souls who hold those jobs), not a nuclear trigger. It's a Beverly Hillbillies situation, really, except these Alaskabillies are fascist true-believers who want to ban books, take away abortion rights, let corporations treat the environment like toilet paper, teach "creationism" in schools, put the heads of endangered animals on their walls, bomb Russia if that nasty ol' commie, Putin, "rears his head," and probably add "talking in tongues" to college foreign language requirements.

(On second thought, I must apologize to the Beverly Hillbillies. They were, bless 'em, probably Democrats. After all, Jed Clampett was a humanist, Granny a natural healer, Ellie Mae an animal rights activist, and Jethro a failed small businessman.)

At least Bush had the good sense to take orders from Cheney. Palin takes orders from the little voice in her head that she calls "God." As is the case with all religious maniacs, she doesn't believe---she knows. She knows that God wants her to be president. She knows that God created the earth about 6,000 years ago. She knows that cavemen saddled up on brontosauruses (she saw a human footprint inside of a dinosaur footprint, so that proves it). She knows that further destroying and polluting the world to plunder its gas and oil is God's will. She knows that it's fine, let alone fun, to slaughter defenseless animals. (Especially from helicopters, with shotguns.) After all, The Bible gave mankind "dominion" over the beasts.

To paraphrase Jed Clampett, we in a heap o' trouble.