Before last Friday, Sarah Palin was virtually unknown outside Alaska. After her speech last week and the ongoing gush of information around her, we now know she’s young, energetic, charismatic, and crazy. Her worldview is three clicks to the right of Mike Huckabee and while she gives a good speech with nice quips (thank McCain’s speech writer for that,) she is crazy and dangerous.

Don’t believe me? “The Iraq war is a task from god.” Christian or not, these words should chill your blood. This statement shows a lack of judgment, a lack of understanding, and a display of gross hubris that got us where we are in the first place.

Now we have a pit bull in lipstick (her words, not mine) who has no clue about what a VP does and has displayed for the world to see her lack of knowledge, experience, and judgment. When I think about qualified, competent, and serious VP candidates that happen to be female, if I were a woman, I would be so deeply offended I couldn’t see straight. Let’s agree, she’s no Kay Bailey Hutchison or Elizabeth Dole – our nation is the poorer for that lack of choice.

I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt and simply call her willfully ignorant. America, your choice is clear. Choose wisely.