That headline sounds sort of like a romantic comedy starring Hugh Grant and Cameron Diaz, doesn’t it?

Just today I ran across a couple things that really set me against Sarah Palin. I was never going to vote for her and John McCain, anyways, but for a long time I just thought she was an unwitting pawn in McCain’s campaign. After watching her speech last night at the Republican National Convention, I realized that she isn’t unwitting. She seems pretty smart. Which got me to thinking,then she KNOWS she’s a pawn? What does THAT say about her character?

First of all, I’m surprised not many people have mentioned that she’s Pentecostal. She’s not just a “sway your hands, feel the love of God” kind of Pentecostal. This is a video clip of her church:

Wasilla Assembly of God Clip

It is reminiscent of the cast of characters from One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, isn’t it? I didn’t see the snakes, but I’ll bet they’re there somewhere.

Also, while I was reading Dooce, Heather provided a link to this AP report, breaking down her speech last night with some facts. And, mind you, this isn’t some liberal rag, this is the freakin’ Associated Press. Here’s a factoid:

PALIN: “I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending … and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere.”

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a “bridge to nowhere.”

(Link to the AP Report.)

…And there are many more of these reports.

Some say she looks like Tina Fey (pshaw), some say she looks like Laura Roslin (mmkay), but I think she’s not nearly as cool as either of them.

Good for her that she has five kids, one an infant with a disability, good for her that she’s being supportive of her pregnant 17 year-old, but is she really? Did Bristol have a choice when the campaign announced that she would be marrying the baby’s father and keeping the baby? Or is this the case of some mysterious campaign advisor speaking for her?

We’ll see how this goes. I like to think that the American people aren’t silly and can see this choice for veep as a blatant pandering to the miffed Hillary supporters, so I hope this won’t be a roadblock for the Obama campaign. But then again, this guy was president for the last 8 years, so anything will seem like a marked improvement.