About Palin:

I've got the skill set thing- Not much in the way of background in the kind of skills we ordinarily expect of presidents.

I've got the patriotic excesses about America and its enemies.

I don't get a couple of other things:

What is the "theocracy" thing. Her church isn't that kind of outfit and she seems to have a kind of Midwestern conservative attitude toward abortion and gay rights. Pro-life but not anti-abortion, pro-marriage but not anti-gay. Sometimes I don't get that stuff but that's where her people (who aren't theocratic either) come from.

Why is everybody worked up over her presidential ambitions while she is tearing huge holes in the liberal agenda as a tea party champion? Ought we not be concerned about what she is doing now instead of what we speculate she might do a couple of years from now?