So who is voting for Sarah Palin?

I just finished watching Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Curic on CBS. Correct me if I am wrong but was she studdering when asked about foreign policy issues? And did she really call Henry Kissinger "naive"? Poor Henry! who would have thought that the creator of Realpolitik would be called such names by someone whose foreign relations experience has been limited to waiving to Siberian fishermen off the coast of Alaska...

It would be a nice farse to watch any other politician, even a vice presidential candidate to a younger president, consistently dodge to-the-point questions with some incomprehensible jargon while her (or his for that matter) facial expressions unmistakenly reveal total ignorance about the issues. Yet, as Matt Damon mentioned on his TV interview, the fact that there is a high probability that Sarah Palin may one day be the Commander in Chief having access to Nuclear Codes is absolutely frightening.

I like John McCain. Up to his picking of Palin as a running mate I thought he was a smart, honest, articulate & down-to-the-point politician who was not afraid to break party lines and vote with his consiousness. I would even vote for John McCain under certain circumstances. This choice however is reckless. The problem is that John McCain is old. I am only 29 and as history has shown John McCain was a myriad times more patriotic than myself at my age. But picking Palin destroyed all his responsible patriotism in my eyes, unless of course he knows for sure that he will live through his term (which is impossible). The choice was politically motivated, one to win the election. Get a running mate who is a woman and aspires to the ultra-conservative knuckleheads who populate apparently (and sadly) 49% of this country. It would have been fine for anyone in his 50s or 60s, but sorry John, the risk for the country (and the world) is just too large. You might not care what happens after you leave this world, but I do and that is just reckless and selfish on your part. It was a great political move but one too dangerous for posterity. It would have been definitely more responsible and patriotic to pick e.g. Guiliani or Bloomberg. Think about it: Who do you think that the conservative Republican base would have voted for if you picked one of those guys?

And because in politics we vote not for the best candidate but for the one who will inflict the less damage, the one who will be "best of the worst", the choice is made easy and obvious by the process of elimination. If we elect McCain/Palin and McCain survives through the full term, then we are better than in the Bush years. If we elect Obama/Biden and Obama does not get killed by some lunatic Nazi during his presidency, we are ok agian. Now, God forbid, if either due to natural causes or due to assassination, the president leaves this world mid-term, a Biden presidency would be ok. A Palin one a disaster! I thought that it can't get much worse than Bush/Cheney but the fairly remote prospect of a Palin Presidency is a deal-breaker.

I feel that it's a fairly reasonable conclusion....
Yet, what I don't understand is how the rest 49% of the country thinks! Can someone explain?