As a woman I am constantly disappointed in women. Sarah Palin, however, is a HUGE embarrassment, not just to women, but to all of humankind!! If she is the "future of the Republican Party", then what I have suspected about Republicans for some time is probably true: they're just NOT an intelligent group of people!

How is it that this odd bundle of aging beauty contestant and creepy hypocrite, so clearly uninterested in actual governance, continues to have a popularity rating of over 50% among Alaskans?

It’s all about the photo opt with her. Otherwise she’d ignore rural Alaska completely. I doubt she has a 50% approval rating. I have a feeling she knows her numbers are down and I wonder if she will even run next year. Who knows! With that ego….

She ain't gettin' it from California, that's for sure. This is the same woman who insisted that President Obama didn't have the experience or chops to do the job...while she made an abject fool of herself!

There is no low deep enough for her. I hope that she remains in the limelight as a reminder. We are notoriously useless when it comes to maintaining our intent to keep these jerks out of office.

Gotta love Palin. The state of Alaska makes a fortune off of the high price of oil and she is complaining about the high price of gas. Hello?!?

As Glenn Greenwald is always pointing out, hypocrisy is the new "serious" ... rated

While down significantly from last year, the ADN still shows her at 54% approval (http://community.adn.com/adn/node/140971). Considering her record, that is remarkable; way better than the governor in my state, for example. We live in a democracy so the fact that a minority loathes her is unimportant in the larger scheme. I would like to understand what the attraction is to the electorate most familiar with the sort of leadership she offers because a plurality of Republicans (a regional minority party now, but they will come back) seem to be telling us that she is the future leader of their dreams. Her physical attractiveness and perky demeanor is clearly part of it, but is that all? The photo-op in question was staged that way for a reason, as were the denials of state economic disaster declarations. What we have seen so far strongly suggests that part of her political attractiveness depends on featuring hypocrisy because her public appearances routinely do it. So we should ask why that is a good thing to her supporters. Similarly, a lot of her policies feature kicking down - with racial and anti-rural overtones. Perhaps that is uniquely attractive to Alaskans, but it still seems to me that we should ask, why does kicking down attract authoritarians and is there a way to portray it that peels off independents?

You know what I like about Palin? That she pisses off liberals to no end.