what would make me revoke my citizenship

“John McCain: Sarah Palin Can Beat Obama In 2012”

An easy target, yes. But Palin deeply annoys me. Consider the following string of clichés and inanities:

“I am so adamantly supportive of the good, traditional things about America and our free enterprise system, and I want to make sure that America is put back on the right track, and we only do that by defeating Obama in 2012. I have that fire in my belly.”

There is not one genuine thought expressed in that entire passage.

Some people think it would be entertaining if she were the nominee. There might be some entertaining moments, yes, but I think it would be too scary to be worth it. Some last-minute Obama scandal is all it would take. Just imagine what four years with Palin as President would feel like. It might be good for poking fun at ourselves for a couple of weeks (smart Americans as a group tend to enjoy talking about how stupid America is), but then we’d have to live with it.

[ADDENDUM: Though admittedly, the more I think about it, Rome obviously survived some much worse leaders than Palin. I’d take Palin over Caligula or Heliogabalus, for instance.]