Mushroom Jazzed

I could very easily allow the video of Sarah Palin utterly botching the test question Charlie Gibson hit her with on the Bush Doctrine to stand as the final word on tonight's interview.

But let's not forget that she did actually mention that if Georgia becomes part of NATO and Russia attacks it, we may have to go to war with Russia.

Let me repeat that: Sarah Palin, the fucking hockey mom, just suggested the possibility of going to war with Russia.

Ilan Goldenberg, the policy director of the National Security Network put it bluntly:

"No sane American or European leader would ever, ever, ever give an answer like that. You do not get into hypotheticals about nuclear war. You just don't. Palin references the Cold War. The only reason the Cold War stayed cold is because our leaders understood the stakes of getting things wrong and saying things that could lead to catastrophic nuclear war. During the Cuban Missile Crisis every word, every public statement, and any message that the Kennedy administration sent to the Soviets was checked, double checked, and triple checked to make sure it was sending precisely the right signal. This is what you are forced to do when you have thousands of nuclear weapons and so does your opponent. The stakes are simply too high. And yet there is a nominee for the vice presidency of the United States who may one day have her hand on the button and she is casually talking about potential catastrophic nuclear war."

Do yourself a favor and just keep comparing her "performance" tonight to this memorable clip. It'll either make you feel infinitely better or infinitely worse -- I'm not quite sure which.