Sarah Palin doesn't understand the role she's auditioning for

A couple of days ago, Sarah Palin gave an interview in which she said, among other things, "[A] vice president has a really great job because not only are they there to support the president’s agenda, they’re like the team member, the teammate to that president, but also they’re in charge of the United State Senate. So if they want to, they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes ..."

I'm not even sure where to begin in dissecting the ignorance of her words, but let's start with the basics.

The role of the vice president in the Senate is simply to cast a deciding vote in the event of a 50-50 tie. According to Article I of the U.S. Constitution, the vice president is the "President" of the Senate, but has no executive position when it comes to presiding over the chamber. Does that make sense to you, Sarah, or do you need to take a remedial 9th grade civics course?

Is it unreasonable to believe that someone asking us for their vote should actually know what the responsibilities and powers of the office are?! Didn't think so.

Then there was last week. In public remarks, Palin said, "We believe that the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America, being here with all of you hard-working, very patriotic, very pro-America areas of this great nation."

Huh?

If I'm reading this correctly, Palin appears to believe that if you're with her ticket, well, then you're very "pro-America" -- whatever that means. If, however, you don't view the world as she does, then you're against America and she doesn't think you're particularly wonderful.

Couldn't John McCain have done better than this? Don't the American people deserve better?