Same here
I actually like McCain, but Palin apparently is there to please the cliche dumb americans.
But Palin is a symptom of something more global than US exclusive.
She's just the typical conservative female politician.
Sarkozy and Berlusconi and other european right wing populists all have such gals as ministers.
Germany has them on state level and in political party posts.
Good looking, producing headlines, but rather dumb, inclined to favoritism and autocratic/hysterical leadership style.
They mostly come in the "bored rich wife" or "bored rich daughter" variant.
I suppose back in the good ole 1980s, when most of our current crop of politicans learned the ropes of their trade, feminism was still rampant.
And conservatives at that time (like today) are male dominated. All parties are, but especially conservatives, as their name implies they're usually not in the vanguard of social change.
So in order to counter all those verbal broadsides from the feminist left, they had to get some chicks, and fast.
But most importantly those chicks were not to interfere with serious business.
Rumour is that the secretary general of the CSU (Bavaria's eternal ruling party) told his female successor: "look, you may become the secretary, but I remain the general".
Well, at least our most famous german conservative politician was definitely not picked for her looks.
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