Palin Debate Preview: The Hits just keep on coming...

So, THE debate night is here, and I don't know about you but I'm more excited then Raiders fans are about having our 5th coach in 6 years (okay bad example, I actually am excited about the debate, as for the Raiders...).  Since her exuberant introduction a few short weeks ago the Sarah Palin story has been... well, "amazing" just doesn't quite say enough to describe what following along with her story has been.

First we have the scandals:

Troopergate: The governor was accused of using the influence of her office to get the Department of Public Safety Commissioner to fire her State Trooper ex-brother in law.  He refused, so Palin fired the Commissioner.  At first Governor Palin was all for the investigation looking into this, until she started to be on the McCain-Palin ticket that is.  Now she's directing her staff to ignore subpoenas and McCain campaign operatives are trying to shut the investigation down.  Sound like an administration we know?

Bristolgate:

The scandal's not that her teenage daughter is pregnant out of wedlock, I personally don't think that the actions of a candidate's child should really be relevant (although I think that a pregnant teenage Obama daughter might be a topic of conversation in the media); it's that her children are named, Bristol, Track, Willow, Piper and Trig, or am I the  only one that's bothered by this?   

Then we have the interviews:

The Charlie Gibson Interview: Highlights include Ms. Palin, who's running to be the second most powerful person in the free world, clearly having no idea what the "Bush Doctrine" is and saying that she has foreign policy experience because she can see Russia from her State.  This interview was bad, but it was nothing compared to....

The Katie Couric interview:  Katie was being so nice, she kept that, "help me, help you" tone throughout the interview, and used friendly terms like, "Could you explain what you meant..."  That said, Ms. Couric did demand her answers, if she asked for specifics and received vague talking points she'd ask a second, and third time for an actual specific, rarely getting one.  The hit list from this doozy (if you haven't seen these clips, brace yourself:

-Governor Palin not being able to name any specific regulation that John McCain supported as a Senator, besides his call for greater oversight of Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac.  Can't really blame her for this one though, I don't think that there is one.

-Governor Palin explaining how being close to Russia gives her foreign policy experience, again, in a much more frightenening show of ineptitude.  At one point she actually quits in the middle of a sentence because she's not sure what she's trying to say (Katie helps her out though...).

-Governor Palin's "thoughts" on the bailout are about as coherent as Miss South Carolina on foreign affairs (or Sarah Palin on foreign affairs for that matter).  Newsweek columnist Fareed Zakaria told CNN that her answer to Couric's question on this topic made him think that, " It's scary to think that this person could be running the country." (he said much more about her in his Newsweek column, "Palin is ready? Please.") 

-Governor Palin not being able to name one newspaper or magazine that she reads regularly.

...and the Pièce de résistance:

-Governor Palin not being able to name a Supreme Court decision that she disagrees with besides "Roe V. Wade."  She also says that she believes in a right to privacy, the argument upon which Roe V. Wade is built.  Wow...

This stuff would be hilarious if she wasn't so close to being the President!!!

To prove that this would be funny I bring you, The Saturday Night Live Stuff:

-The Palin-Clinton skit, which was really funny, and honestly seems to have given the press the balls to start to question Palin's credibility (which isn't so funny.  A sketch comedy show is where American journalism gets its cues now? Scary...).

-The Couric-Palin skit which is even funnier, until you realize that large portions of Tina Fey's "impression" are near exact quotes of the actual Palin interview (SCARY!).

So now you're ready for what may be the most entertaining, and terrifying, Vice Presidential debate in History.  Enjoy, and think about what John McCain has to think about you and this country in order to choose her to be his running mate...