There are a few questions that, I suspect, will not be covered in tonight's vice-presidential debate. However, I believe they should be asked, and since, so far, I have exactly as much access to Sarah Palin as anybody in the journalistic community (i.e., none), I'm asking them here.
1) Can Sarah Palin spell the word 'potato'?
Honestly, I think she probably can. I just want to establish a baseline for comparing her to previous Vice-Presidents of the United States.
2) Has Sarah Palin ever manufactured crystal meth?
Again, I don't really think she has. However, based on the amount of meth labs found in Wasilla during her tenure as mayor, she's orders of magnitude more likely to have done so than any previous candidate.
3) Katie Couric has established that Palin can't name any US Supreme Court cases other than Roe v. Wade with which she disagrees (click
here to see it). I suppose that's ok, although I personally might have suggested in Re: Dred Scott or Plessy v. Ferguson. Since Palin's such a firm believer in state sovereignty, she might also have suggested McCulloch v. Maryland or even Marbury v. Madison. Now, Palin might argue that she only has a BA in a completely non-political subject (journalism), and therefore couldn't be expected to cite obscure legal cases. That's why the above list consists entirely of cases I learned about in high school American History.
So, what I want to know is, can Sarah Palin name any US Supreme Court cases other than Roe, period? It just seems like it might matter in the job she's going for.