Jack, I would honestly rather see her in charge than McCain, because I think he's mentally unstable. I don't think she is, nor do I think she's stupid. She's a determined and reasonably intelligent and reasonably capable woman who would be pretty good at holding her ground, I think, if under pressure.

Not that I'd vote for her. ;-) I'm just saying that she's better than McCain, that's all.

Anyone who becomes president is surrounded by a whole bunch of high level advisors and power brokers who end up telling a president what he can or cannot do in a given situation. Presidents must bow to reality eventually, just as the rest of us do. Thus, I think the amount of damage they can do when in office tends to be limited by the rest of the control structure around them.

So how good a president Sarah Palin would be would be dependent to quite an extent on who else was positioned around her. Not that I have much confidence in them either.... ;-)

But I don't think she's crazy. I do think that McCain is more than a little crazy or he's just not all there, so to speak.