That's because most American vote with their wallets, not their genitals

And women don't vote for other women because they're "hot". And most American men really DON'T fantasize that they are somehow going to have sex with the Vice President.

Keith Olbermann declared Kathleen Parker the daily "Worst Person in the World" last week for this opinion piece in which she obliquely throws out the idea that perhaps John McCain wasn't thinking with the Big Head when he decided on Sarah Palin as a running mate. It's not beyond the realm of possibility, given McCain's history with the ladies. I happen to think it was more a question of McCain's neocon wingnut campaign people wanting to shore up the base combined with a misguided notion that disgruntled Hillary supporters will vote for anything with breasts and a vagina.

Aside from the appalling condescension towards women that the Palin pick demonstrated, it was also a clear demonstration of just how out of touch with most Americans the Republican Party has become in its eight years in power against a hapless Democratic Party, as it has listened to the highly vocal concerns of its theocrat-authoritarian base, to the point of believing that for most Americans, the sexual behavior of others and preparing for the return of Jesus are the most important issues facing this country.

But whatever the motivation, naming a backstabbing, ruthlessly ambitious, corrupt, willfully ignorant, uninformed, angry, hypocritical religious nut may have backfired on Camp Grandpa:

A growing number of voters have concluded that Senator John McCain’s running mate, Gov. Sarah Palin of Alaska, is not qualified to be vice president, weighing down the Republican ticket in the last days of the campaign, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.

All told, 59 percent of voters surveyed said Ms. Palin was not prepared for the job, up nine percentage points since the beginning of the month. Nearly a third of voters polled said the vice-presidential selection would be a major factor influencing their vote for president, and those voters broadly favor Senator Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee.

And in a possible indication that the choice of Ms. Palin has hurt Mr. McCain’s image, voters said they had much more confidence in Mr. Obama to pick qualified people for his administration than they did in Mr. McCain.

Could it be that a majority of American voters, faced with a widening war in the Middle East, national bankruptcy at home, and an uncertain future, have finally realized that they aren't going to have a beer with the President and they aren't going to get to nail the Vice President and that just maybe it might be a good idea to have someone sitting in the White House who has the capability of thought and reason?

Stay tuned.