I'm not here to idealize Sarah Palin--or anyone.
For the most part I subscribe to the "best government is the least government" model and "leave us the **** alone" philosophy.
Priority one for me is to ask which prospective holder of power is the least dangerous to our personal liberties. Right now, warts and all, Palin scares me less on that score than most of the alternatives.
Palin, as I have said in prior posts, is to me "not fully-formed," but I have no doubt that she is educable. At least she retains some humility, something most of the rest of them conspicously lack.
We will see, in due course, just how smart and sophisticated Barack Obama really is. So far color me skeptical.