Some funny revelations about McCain & Palin

I'm continuing to do post-mortem stuff about the election, and I have a few more pieces to bring you, just in case you haven't seen them. (Or even if you have - they are that good.)

Of all the losing tickets in recent memory, the Palin-McCain McCain Palin ticket has got to be the most hilarious. As it turns out, they both were as inept as many of us thought they were.

First, McCain: I've been writing it for some time now, and it bears repeating once more - McCain's choice of Palin disqualified him for being fit to serve as president. It now can be safely said that McCain either a. didn't vet Palin at all, or b. the campaign's vetting process was so hopelessly inept that staffers didn't even bother to adequately interview her. What else can we conclude? The video above offers up some great stuff. According to Fox News Channel (yes, you read that right), some of the Palin lowlights included:

-Not knowing which countries were in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)

-Not knowing that Africa is a continent, not a country

-Temper tantrums and abuse of staff

-Refusing to prep for the Katie Couric interview, which by anyone's definition was an unmitigated disaster

-Oh, and then there's the clothes. I particularly love this point, because the right had a lot of fun for days on end following the revelation that former Sen. John Edwards was getting $400 haircuts.

Of course, Palin has a reputation to protect, since she obviously is eying a run for national office in '12, or maybe even sooner if a special election is held in Alaska for soon-to-be-former Sen. Ted Stevens. So, to protect that reputation, she has lashed out at her detractors.

From HuffPo:

"I consider it cowardly" that they did not allow their names to be used, she said.

Palin said those allegations aren't true. She recalled discussing Africa and NAFTA with aides who prepared her for the vice presidential debate with Democrat Joe Biden.

"If there are allegations based on questions or comments that I made in debate prep about NAFTA, and about the continent vs. the country when we talk about Africa there, then those were taken out of context," she said. "That's cruel, It's mean-spirited. It's immature. It's unprofessional and those guys are jerks if they came away with it, taking things out of context and then tried to spread something on national news. It's not fair, and it's not right."

That's a typical escape hatch that embarrassed people always use to deflect attention away from the embarrassment - that they were taken "out of context."

Quite frankly, had Palin's very few interviews not been so disastrous, maybe this stuff would be harder to believe. But, she couldn't even have a basic discussion about what she liked or didn't like about the Bush Doctrine. "What part, Charlie" will forever live on in election lore.

And if Palin is truly going to be the face of the Republican Party moving forward, the only danger to Democrats is overconfidence, because she's a complete disaster. Talk about judging a book by its cover. One of the right's hate messages about Obama was that with his experience, the only reason he was having electoral success is because he's black. (Which, by the way, is total b.s. - his education, knowledge and know-how have put him where he is - for instance, compare his educational background with those of McCain and Palin, and in about 10 seconds it'll pretty obvious to you who took his education seriously, and who didn't.)

Anyway, it's soo obvious that Palin was picked for her looks, and little else. I'm still laughing that one of my friends, a few weeks after Palin was selected for the ticket, said he was more excited about Palin "than any Republican since Reagan." Maybe I should ask him if he cares to revise that statement, since he did about as much research on Palin as the McCain campaign did.