I think I found the right analogy for Palin

[Hokie]

After watching parts of the two interviews I figured out exactly the right analogy: Electing Palin to be VP for a 72 year old man with a poor medical history is the same as letting someone who got to be a doctor by taking second place in a beauty contest perform open heart surgery on you. McCain supporters are really that stupid.

[Mabus]

1. It's more like Hitler putting his mistress on the ticket

I think a better analogy is that Palin is like Eva Braun and McCain is like Hitler. Sounds harsh doesn't it? But, here's my reasoning:

Eva is reputed to have been an average student and good at athletics (this and all references from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eva_Braun). Both Sarah and Eva used their looks as the way to open doors to careers that would eventually bring them to the attention of their mentors. Eva began her social climb as a model while Palin was a beauty pageant contestant.

Eva and Sarah are alike in other ways. For one thing, Eva was Hitler's "second" choice, after his first love committed suicide (it makes me think of Lieberman and his political suicide in the Democratic Party). For another thing:

(Eva) was never allowed to stay in the room when business or political conversations took place. However, some historians have inferred she was aware of at least some sordid details concerning the (original says "Third Reich's" but I think we can insert "GOP's") inner workings. By all accounts she led a sheltered and privileged existence and seemed uninterested in politics.

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...According to Albert Speer's memoir, Inside the Third Reich, Braun never slept in the same room as Hitler and had her own rooms at the Berghof, in Hitler's Berlin residence and in the Berlin bunker. Speer wrote:

Eva Braun was allowed to be present during visits from old party associates. She was banished as soon as other dignitaries of the Reich, such as cabinet ministers, appeared at the table ... Hitler obviously regarded her as socially acceptable only within strict limits. Sometimes I kept her company in her exile, a room next to Hitler's bedroom. She was so intimidated that she did not dare leave the house for a walk. Out of sympathy for her predicament I soon began to feel a liking for this unhappy woman, who was so deeply attached to Hitler.

Speer later said, "Eva Braun will prove a great disappointment to historians."

There's even an ancedote about lipstick:

Hitler is known to have been opposed to women wearing cosmetics (in part because they were made from animal by-products) and sometimes brought the subject up at mealtime. Linge (who was his valet) said Hitler once laughed at traces of Braun's lipstick on a napkin and to tease her, joked, "Soon we will have replacement lipstick made from dead bodies of soldiers".

Sure there are some differences, like people (outside of Hitler's inner circle) didn't know that Eva existed until after their suicides. But, like Eva & Hitler, Palin & McCain are committing (political) suicide together.

So, to me at least, having Sarah Palin as a running mate is akin to Hitler putting his mistress on the ticket.

:evilgrin: