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Sheeesh. If anybody in Alaska is reading this, I'm sorry guys, but the reputation of Alaska has taken the same kind of beating that we here in Florida took after the 2000 vote counting and recounting. If our experience is any guide, it should fade in about five or six years.
When she first came on the scene I wondered "Is she up to being a vice president?" Within a month I was wondering "How did she get to be the mayor of a small suburb of Anchorage?" (that question was answered by the Daily Show interview in which the current mayor of Wasilla tried to describe her duties and responsibilities, and was hard put to think of any)