I saw this video earlier today, and I still can’t decide who to be upset with. Please watch it and then read my comments below.

I never liked Governor Sarah Palin all that much when it came to politics. She really only seemed to speak to Senator John McCain’s base, yet to a might-as-well-be-independent like me, Palin seemed a little out-of-touch and more than a little arrogant in her assumptions about all Americans. My husband isn’t a Joe Six-Pack. He’s a Steve One-Beer, if anything, or perhaps a Steve Doesn’t-Define-Himself-By-What-He-Imbibes. As for me, I don’t define myself by my trade, and I don’t think that I’m in any particular demographic that would have benefited from McCain’s tax plan more than President-elect Obama’s. I don’t feel squelched by liberal policies (I like both gays and religious freedom) and further, I don’t believe Palin was at all a victim of “Gotcha journalism.” Finally, I never found Sarah Palin particularly qualified even though she had served as governor of one of our great states.

But even with all of this in mind, Palin is not the one I’m upset with.

John McCain and his people led us to believe that Sarah Palin was the woman for the job. They told us she was brilliant, that she was qualified, and that she would be a woman to serve all Americans. So either McCain and his camp lied to us from the very beginning and almost saddled us with this now seemingly unqualified woman as the second in command in leadership of the free world, as they say… or, McCain’s campaign folks and Fox News (all big Palin people) are now totally passing the buck.

Who can be so dedicated to a cause one minute and then just abandon ship the second things go badly?

I don’t know about you, but I’d like some answers.