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You can bet Gov. Sarah Palin knows what a gerund is, but she's hardly prepared to be on the national political stage -- let alone a heartbeat away from the presidency -- with merely a bachelor's degree from the University of Idaho.

It's like the Republicans have thrown us a woman-bone. "Here she is. Happy now?" We're supposed to be appeased by this political prop. Woof.

I can get over the fact that she's a fitness-crazed, automatic weapon-toting mother of five. Well, actually, it does concern me that she very recently had a baby, delivered within her brief tenure as governor of Alaska. Evidently, she is still fertile. Can she promise us that she won't get pregnant if elected heartbeat-away Commander in Chief?

Negotiating with Iranians while nine months pregnant is, well, I don't know, awkward.

You betcha, she's a tough and ambitious Northern woman, this weird amalgam of Republican values. But, c'mon, a Journalism degree? It would be laughable if it wasn't so scary. Can you imagine what a Rovian tool she could become? This short-sighted vice presidential pick is a very real national security threat.

Yes, Sarah Palin has a compelling life story. So does John McCain. But this isn't a contest about who deserves to be President and Vice President.