"She supported right-wing extremist Pat Buchanan for president in 2000."

*Is that this Pat Buchanan?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kcnksZ4FL3Q

*"McCain's VP pick doesn't even deserve to be mentioned in the same sentence as Hillary."

*I quite agree. Everything Sarah Palin has achieved (including more executive experience than all the others on the tickets combined - with an 80+ approval rating) has been down to her own efforts and skills. Everything Hillary Clinton has achieved has been a result of being Mrs Bill Clinton.

*"You do you realize that McCain just turned 72, and if he died while serving as President, this giggling former beauty pagent contestant right-wing extremist who's in-bed with Big Oil would become President of the United States and LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD!??? "

*OK, so she's funny and attractive. I can see why people with Hillary C and Nancy Pelosi as female political icons would want to demean these qualities.

She's in bed with a big oil man, a Native American blue collar union member. She supports the utilization of natural resources and, sadly, the notion of "windfall tax" on profits.

As part of her right-wing extremism she ensured that state employees in same-sex civil unions received the same benefits as married couples.

I'll admit she hasn't written multiple autobiographies, even though she's into her 40s already. This could be an issue.

I've always reckoned that the first woman president and the first black president of the USA would be conservatives (as with Margaret Thatcher here in the UK). Still think so.

*"There is no contest anymore."

*Rather usefully, there is. It's called the election. A very entertaining one it's turning out to be, too.