Ron:

With all respect, I have to demur. While it may not be savvy to press it as the senior issue--and god knows there are more important ones about which the Palin camp is even dumber--it is not something to retreat into silence about, either.

As for underestimating Sarah, that's not the problem. It's OVER estimating the populaton at large. That's what reduced all to a silly state of shock when Bush wrangled the SCOTUS to hand him the laurels in 2000 and when he walked in again in '04. It was incredible that fifty per cent of the country would throw their votes into the pit that way.

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