Are you comfortable authorizing Sarah Palin to make life or death decisions?

A couple thoughts on Mrs. Palin:

On being a quick study: She can have street smarts and be a quick study, but pouring over briefing books and practicing interviews and debates for two or three weeks can't supply the wisdom or erudition that we might want the leader of the free world to possess.

But she's not running for president: The power to make fateful judgments can land in a vice president's lap even while the president lives. Dick Cheney gave the order to shoot down Flight 93, and believed his order was carried out.

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