to the exclusion of reporting on the Presidential candidates, or on the Democratic ticket.

Both Cindy McCain and John McCain says that the good Governor has foreign affairs experience because Alaska border Russia. What she tell us what contacts she has had with Russian diplomats and what issues were discussed?

Was the governor always against the Bridge to Nowhere or was for it before she was against it?

As mayor of Wasilla, she hired a Washington lobbyist and got $26 million in earmarks from the Feds. Given this experience, what did she learn about Washington that she will use as Vice President?

If the media can pass along the story that the Democrats threw the flags used at Invesco Field in the trash, seems only fair to ask Palin about this other one anonymous source story running around the blogosphere.

http://thepoliticalcurmudgeon.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-and-me.html

Personally I do believe she said it, but I also admit that's just because it fits my understanding of her. I'd hardly call it proven, and if I were an editor, I'd want to know who "Lucille" is and why she needs to be anonymous before it would go in the pages of my newspaper, magazine, whatever. It just seems like a double-standard that the McCain/Fox version of the flag story is getting repeated.

"You've talked about change in terms of lobbying and ethics. That concerns how policy is made, not policy itself. What are the specific policies of George W. Bush that you will reverse?"

A simple question, but it might be enlightening. "It's the day after the inauguration, and McCain is hit by a passing meteor and dies instantly. Now, you're president. What would your priorities be? What would you try to accomplish over the next year? How would you work with Congress?"

I'm sure Palin would answer vaguely - I'd continue to carry out John McCain's policies, blah blah blah - but she might say something more candid, and it would give people a better idea of who she really is.

He could ask her why the left thinks that the media should be the private army of the left.

Her answers would be speculation, but they would be interesting, and it's not as if Joan or the Salonistas will give good answers.

Submit this one for me:

Governor Palin, your son who is going off to Iraq tells you he is gay, and wants to get married to his long time lover before he gets on that long plane to Iraq to defend the nation. What would you tell him?

Yes, I know.

Why Trig and Track?

And not Jim and Jack?

Governorn Palin-your sister was raped by a wolf who believes global warming was largely man made. What would you tell your sister?

..just what the fuck is a a trig anyway?

Governor Palin, community organizers are scum, total low life trash who deserve to beaten badly on a daily basis. We can all agree on that. My question is this: What blunt instrument would you administer the beatings with?

now that MSNBC has removed anchoring duties at upcoming events from the mean Matthews (?!) and Olberman. That'll teach those meanies.

She can talk to Buchanan on Scarborough about the little known fact that her running mate was once in the military and was a POW. She can talk about how her faith gives her the strength to tackle the big issues, like who she can trust.

She might even consent to go on Larry King once that rabid bloodhound Campbell Brown gets taken down a notch or two and talk about the joys of motherhood and the pain of being "attacked" by the radicals for her "choice" of having a disabled child.

"Are you still beating your husband?"

Over the last nine days Sarah Palin has embarrassed her desperate critics every time she has had the opportunity. What makes you think she won't do it again? Are you masochists? Wake up and eat your hearts out. Sarah Palin is a pro. She's got it. Credit John McCain with exceptionally good judgment, and the confidence to know it.

Governor Palin would not have been able to carry out her duties as governor without some kind of child care. If she becomes vice president this will be even more necessary since she will travel a lot, and has a new infant son to care for.

Will Governor Palin detail for America's working mothers (who have an almost impossible task of finding good and affordable childcare) what her former arrangements were, and are apt to be in Washington? Her public persona currently is that of a dedicated candidate, but also that of a dedicated mother of 5 children. Perhaps in Alaska being governor did not take much time - but the VP job is taxing. How will she handle this? This question is relevant because Americans do not approve of a part-time executive VP, and know being a part-time mother is not satisfactory either. It's a terrible dilemma for low-wage working mothers and in this economy we have lots of them.

And will she give American working mothers some idea of how she will address this issue on their behalf, and her ideas for improving child care in the US?

Charles Gibson was the one, wasn't he, with George Stephanopoulos, who not only asked unfair questions, but inane and shallow questions of Obama at that debate. I was surprised to see either of them still on their shows after that performance.

He said that 'Once we have heard about Palin's husband's involvement with [a movement or organization which wants to secede from the Union], once we have heard about her latest child*, once we have heard about her pregnant daughter, (we have nothing more to ask).' (See Huffingtonpost.com, today.)

Isn't an organization which hates the U.S. so much they want to secede from it worthy of at LEAST as much comment on news channels as any pastor of Barack Obama's who angrily criticized the U.S. government (but didn't talk of seceding)?

Isn't Sarah Palin's daughter's 'decision' (Palin's word) to keep her child, which she touts, worthy of considerable questioning, in light of the fact that she INSISTS THAT NO WOMAN WOULD HAVE THE RIGHT TO TERMINATE A PREGNANCY IF SHE, PALIN, WERE IN POWER -- NOT EVEN IN CASES OF INCEST OR RAPE. How is this not a subject for considerable discussion -- with HER?

Media should not be cowed by McCainian forces who scream foul when this subject is touched upon -- they say 'Media should not be jumping on Palin's pregnant daughter' as if everyone who mentioned the above SARAH PALIN discrepancies were condemning the girl for getting pregnant. I have heard NO ONE judge 'Bristol' for getting pregnant. But I have heard many people say (and not very well; let's get with it, folks) that her using the words 'she decided' (to keep her child) is fundamentally hypocritical. This point needs more play and not less. (Obama is right that 'children are off limits' but separate this out from the point that Palin's use and touting that her daughter 'decided to keep her baby' against her refusal, if she had the power, to allow other women to make such a decision is hypocritical. Obama, himself, should make that clear.)

Finally, Palin, a dinosaur scientifically, not only 'doesn't believe in global warming (even as the icebergs are melting as we speak and flooding some Alaskan coastal towns), she refuses money for housing for unwed mothers AND DENOUNCES SEX EDUCATION FOR ALL TEENAGERS. These facts, next to the fact of an unwanted teenage pregnancy in her own family, cry out for airing out.

I doubt very much that Charles Gibson, given his sad, irrelevant, unjournalistic and lowdown questioning of Obama at the debate, would ask and re-ask Palin any of these questions.

*(And certainly, his mentioning of the 'latest child', having no use at all, in any respect, for interviewing -- does it have the goal to demean the other questions, lessen them in value or 'rightness' or 'seemly-ness"?