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that the GOP chooses Palin as their nominee in 2012. She is a dream candidate to run against. We always have a gap between the public image of someone and who we believe them to be "for real," but Governor Palin has a record, and the record is one of personal corruption, vindictiveness, willful ignorance, and moral hypocrisy. Paglia, like Bush with Putin's, looks into Palin's eyes and sees a thing of beauty and charisma. Having grown up in Altoona, Pee Ay, in the Alalbama part of that state, I see something altogether different. It frightened me during the campaign to imagine that she might become one old man's heartbeat away from the preisdency. That we were spared is wonderful. That John McCain chose her forever discredits him in my eyes.
