I apologize if a similar poll to this has been posted in the past day or two. (I know I saw one before that.) We're seeing revelation after revelation that Sarah Palin is unfit and unqualified to be vice president. The question is: How long will she last?
As other diaries have detailed today alone, McCain's pick is a book banner. She and her husband, until very recently, wanted Alaska to secede from the United States. She doesn't understand the concept of separation of church and state. She and her husband were part onwers of a business shut down by the state for failing to comply with business regs.
Her own mother-in-law isn't sure whether she'll vote for her.
More below the fold, with the promised poll ...
Despite John McCain's protestations that his campaign thoroughly vetted Palin and considers her a "soul mate," it seems clear that she is becoming a drag on his chances of winning the presidency. Everyone but Palin's most rabid defenders - the social conservatives who insisted on her selection - are questioning whether McCain made the best possible choice, or whether he showed recklessly poor judgment for his first major decision as our would-be president.
Thomas Eagleton - who'd served nearly two decades in the U.S. Senate - lasted 18 days in 1972 before revelations of past hospitalizations for nervous disorders scuttled his selection as George McGovern's veep.
At this point, I don't see how Sarah Palin will last even that long, and I expect her to drop out sometime in the next two weeks, probably "for the good of her family." The likelihood of it happening before November 4 has been running between 10 and 15 percent most of today at InTrade (it's 17% as I write this), but I suspect the odds are much greater and that the break could come much sooner - perhaps as early as tomorrow before Palin's RNC appearance, but more likely over the next two weeks so McCain can replace her before the VP debate one month from now.
What say you? When will Sarah Palin become the Thomas Eagleton of our era?