Publius,

You are right, there is nothing different than people who think they can sing embarrassing themselves on national tv and people who have never really ballroom danced before being asked to come on a show and learn to dance with a professional...

Very much the same thing... really?

KJL: Thanks for sharing. I am really looking forward to receiving my book, it should come any day now.

Publius: Yawn. Your anti-Palin tirades are getting more and more ridiculous. Grow up.

Thanks for your thoughts KJL.

Though I get a kick out of the fact that you can't resist mentioning Romney whenever you can. Especially whenever Palin's mentioned ... oops, gotta' get another Romney plug in.

You do know that he's not the most prolife candidate out there, right? Or at least that he's willing to flop on that issue when politically expedient?

And he just may do so again to differentiate himself from Palin and/or Huckabee this go-round ... and to try to appeal to Tea Partiers who want to avoid social issues ...

Palin's very gracious about Romney, sure. And she'll make her own political decisions going forward, absolutely.

But I personally hope she doesn't ally herself with Romney ... since many of his past, present, and future aides have been trying their darnedest to undermine her since the 2008 campaign ... including as recently as a coupla' months ago in Time, by calling her "not a serious person."

I'm sure Mrs. Palin is a very nice lady who deserves her own show on Fox News during the daytime. I suspect she'll take Mike Huckabee's time-slot when he becomes US Secretary of Health & Human Services for President Romney.

I'm also sure that the 25-year old who actually wrote the book (which KJL's review confirms is a stew of platitudes) has added a valuable bit to her resume.

Sarah's comments regarding JFK, his religious view and political behaviour, for that era, displays a woeful level of ignorance of American history and culture that was all pervasive, going back the turn of the 20th century.
Until JFK showed up, the general view across the nation regarding Catholics was they took their marching orders from the 'Papist' in Rome and were lock-step in the extreme.
Al Smith(D) was defeated for the presidency in 1928 because among his faults he was a Catholic. In a predominately Protestant land, Catholics were lumped in with the attitude toward Jews of the period.
Those voters raised by parents from the Victorian Period, in turn raised the crop of voters that voted in the 1960 presidential race.
That was the political climate that JFK faced; sixty plus years of anti-catholic bias. He had to cross that social divide to attain the Presidency. People of that day were suspicious of his loyalty...was it to the country or to the Pope.
His success was due to the changing nature of the American people to see his religion would not override political decisions as President.
Today the cultural and political atmosphere are obviously different. Having a religious or appearing to having a religious demeanor is socially and politically acceptable unlike 50 years ago.
I have watched and listen to Sarah Palin since she appeared on the political stage. I have not liked how she has been portrayed by the left. But I worry about her lack of political, social, economic, and historical wherewithal. There appears to be little depth to her understanding of dealing with the world at large. She strikes me as being naive, out of her depth and not qualified to be President. She has, however, run a state government, however short her tenure.