However, I do disagree with your “death panel” assessment. Palin was spot-on, there -it is precisely what the gruesome creeps in the Obama administration are planning, although they use loftier words.

And I am disappointed to see you fall in with the (very inaccurate) “Bush was incurious” meme. George W. Bush was anything but incurious, he simply (and impoliticly) trusted his instincts as much as anything else. Obama, on the other hand, seems to read less than Bush, is so incurious he pretends the GOP has no health care ideas, and as evidenced by his dithering re Afghanistan, trusts his instincts not at all. On the whole I’d rather have Bush.

Now, if you want to talk “incurious” let’s talk about the press…

Your cat is a student of history? Color me impressed. Does it focus its studies on the recent past, or is it more of a student of the Middle Ages?

Palin is who she is. She’s more like the average American in beliefs than the political whores and pundits that follow them and analyze their thought wave patterns. This is a time when we need the hedgehogs and not the foxes.

What’s missing in most of the Palin bashing and frothing and spittle is whether a vote for her is a vote for the right reason? Is she better today than Obama? Give me a break. I’ve had women tell me they cry when they hear her speak because she resonates with them.

The Palin issue is a great deal like the AGW issue. Once folks know something about it, they change their mind. Most know only what they’ve been groomed to hear and believe. It’s sort of like the Left saying how smart Gore was (he flunked out of two colleges), how much smarter Kerry was than Bush (wasn’t) and how so intellectual Stevenson was and “too smart to be President”.

None of the current crop of possibles (from Indiana’s governor to McCain to Romney to Huck to Crist to etc.) have any excitement. It’s worse than watching cow patties rot.