Doggone Betcha

Were she black, Sarah Palin's performance would have been skewered by the right as undignified and demeaning to the office she seeks.

What frightens many about Paliin is not only her low-wattage intellect, which is on par with Bush's congenital incuriosity, but her own certitude about the way things ought to be in politics and life.

Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro had ideas you could disagree with. But Sarah Palin is perky and inscrutable at once, you betcha. She talks. We listen but we have no idea what's been said.