AC is someone who is most comfortable in her ignorance.
It’s better not to trouble them. In fact, the Bible cautions us on the matter.
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clearly it shows through!
Uh, I am a man.
And it’s not ignorance to say that Haley Barbour would be far and away a better head of the ticket than Palin.
Incidentally, I can’t think of the last time that a VP candidate on a losing ticket came back to win 4 years later. Bob Dole had 20 years between 1976 and 1996 and he still lost. Edwards campaign imploded. Quayle hasn’t been heard from post VP’ly. Lloyd Bentsen could have contended in 1992 but he stayed out. Geraldine Ferraro did nothing. Ed Muskie had a real shot but he blew it. Kefauver had potential but fell victim to the political climate of the time.
In fact, to find a president who had been a vice-presidental candidate on a losing ticket you have to go back to Franklin Roosevelt who was Cox’s running mate in 1920. And even then, he won 12 years after that fact and between that time picked up a fair amount of governmental experience he hadn’t had in 1920 and in 1920 he had been a part of the Wilson administration.
I think that’s the only instance of it ever happening in American history. I wouldn’t expect that trend to break in 2012.