Erica Grieder ignores Palinmania:
[I]f I was to take a super-dose of Nyquil and wake up in January 2012 to see President Palin on the television, I would still be sanguine. … I would guess that somehow Mrs Palin, during the course of her campaign, had managed to answer her critics on both sides of the aisle, to present a compelling policy platform, and to demonstrate the leadership qualities—magnanimity, steadiness, and optimism—which have heretofore eluded her as a national figure. …
The objections to Mrs Palin are about personality rather than policy. The fear is that she's too reckless, too divisive and too intemperate to be an effective president. If that's the case, there's no reason to think that voters will go for it.
Here's hoping. But my objections are not just about her clinical delusions or extreme narcissism or inability to engage reality. They are about policy. Given the massive debt, I think her prescription of more, big tax cuts is like giving an alcoholic a free jagermeister supply. Given the perilous instability and transformation in the Middle East, I think accelerating the colonization of the West Bank is insanely reckless, and striking Iran potentially catastrophic. An energy policy that focuses entirely on sustaining a carbon economy is terribly short-sighted. I suspect she would gladly bring back torture into the American government. Above all, I agree with George Will that someone this unstable, this disturbed and this delusional having access to the nuclear codes terrifies me. These concerns are not all about personality, although in her case, I think we have someone outside any conventional boundaries of responsibility. They are also about preventing America accelerating its decline.
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