Wasilla, Alaska City Hall
Above we have a picture of the majestic, awe-inspiring Wasilla, Alaska city hall where Sarah Palin wisely ruled her kingdom of 7,000 subjects.

To update you, by Saturday afternoon dad had decided that it was going to be as he had originally predicted: a landslide for McCain. This would be due in no small part to the fact McCain got the God-fearing, gun-shooting, sexy librarian Sarah Palin on his side.

It's hard to believe we only met Sarah Palin less than a week ago. In just this short amount of time we've learned she wanted to ban books at the Wasilla library, she's hired a lawyer for her possible deposition on whether she pressured the head of the Alaska state patrol to fire her ex-brother-in-law, she supported the "bridge to nowhere" before she was against it (channeling John Kerry?), and she was once a member of a group who want Alaska to secede from the United States. The story the media has bit on the hardest, though, is that Palin's 17-year-old daughter is pregnant and unmarried.

Barack Obama and Sean Hannity have forbidden me from talking about the young teen -- despite the fact the Palins are the ones who announced the pregnancy to the press. So I'll give the teen a pass, however, I think the mother is well worth examining (and not in the way some of you guys are thinking).

First of all, when Sarah Palin was pregnant with her last child, she waited 14 hours after her water broke to get to a hospital. Doctors say that could cause an infection, and could be even more problematic considering she already knew the baby was to be born with Down's Syndrome. Now why would a woman risk the health of her newborn like that?

Because she wanted to give a speech at an energy conference in Texas. Republicans said Hillary Clinton was ambitious? Sarah Palin put her child's health at risk to give a speech! This is the proud "hockey mom?"

Now here she is with this four-month-old baby with Down's Syndrome (there are rumors this child is actually her daughter's, too...who knows, but it's sure hard to find a picture of Sarah Palin looking pregnant), as well as the pregnant 17-year-old and a couple of other kids. She's got a family that clearly needs her attention, but instead she chooses to run for vice president, humiliating her daughter with a press release along the way. Gee...thanks, mom.

And while we can't comment on the teen herself, where was mom when her daughter was being impregnated? Maybe speaking to the Alaska secessionists? Trying to ban some library books? Hate to say it, but it's just like a far-right Republican -- minding everyone else's business when she's got a handful to deal with at home.

Finally, what does this say for putting Palin and the religious right's abstinence-only, anti-prophylactic policies to the test? Oh, boy, more unplanned pregnancies! More children with mothers who can't take care of them! It really works!

If Palin doesn't drop out soon, watch this space for more news and views on the would-be VP.

UPDATE: The pic in the previous post of Sarah Palin in a leather miniskirt has been proven to be a fake.