I swear I don't understand the Sarah Palin phenomenon. We already had "a devoutly Christian just-plain-folks politician (completely owned by major oil interests)" running the country.

And we all saw how well Dubya's regime worked out.

On the other hand, I'm pretty sure that if there'd been somehow a choice between McCain and Dubya, this last Presidential election, the guys who voted for McCain would have voted for Dubya instead. So maybe it's not such a mystery after all. There's a Japanese folk saying, "Medicine can't cure idiots."