Dear Governor Palin:

Dear Governor Palin:

Unlike the pundits and network anchors, I thought your performance was an embarassment to Americans.
First of all, You were in a debate. A debate, my dear more-than-slightly-dotty-down-home-soccer-and-hockey mom, is where two or more well spoken human beings answer questions posed to them in a logical, concise and inteligent manner. Turning to the television camera and saying that you weren't going to always answer the questions that were asked, because you were going talk to the American people only shows your ignorance of the venue in which you found yourself and a disdain for the people who, oddly enough, since it was a debate, wanted to hear the answers to those questions.

Second and perhaps more importantly, the office to which you aspire is the Vice Presidency of the United States. It is not, I repeat, not, president of an AYSO soccer region nor is it secretary of the school PTO. Vice Presidents often have to go as a dignitary to foreign nations in the president's place to events as festive as royal weddings or as solemn as state funerals. I can assure you that no one I know, both in the east coast you denigrated nor in the heartland for which you aspire to speak, wants our representative to speak in the vacuous manner you affected for the debate. 'Ramping it up' and being 'with ya' is not correct usage of American English. You embarassed yourself and all college educated women.

Finally, as my 12 year old so astutely pointed out to me, you blink too much. Fluttering your eyelashes may work on beauty pageant judges, but it comes off as annoying to everyone else. My daughter, for whom you should be a role model, asked me if you has a tic, were nervous or just lying.

Madam Governor, if you really want to be Vice President of my nation, act like an intelligent grown up. If you can't act like a grown up, get out of the race.