"In Any Courtoom, The Doubt Would Be More Than Reasonable..."

Sarah Palin likes to portray herself as a being very much in touch with "the average American".

And it seems only reasonable that would include "the average parent".

Continuing along that path of logic, surely, at some point in her life, either as a child of parents or a parent of children, she has heard, or spoken, this oft quoted life advice.

"When in doubt, don't".

Taking every other consideration or interpretation off the table, endorsing the publication of a map of the United States using symbols that could, under any circumstances, be construed as "targets" by anyone at any time, surely had to give any reasonable person at least a moment's doubt.

If she didn't have that doubt, then she most certainly can't be in touch with "the average American" because the average American is essentially an intelligent and reasonable person who, most obviously, would have had that doubt.

And if she did have that doubt but let her ambition overwhelm her common sense, then she, very simply, doesn't deserve our respect, let alone our consideration as a serious candidate for high office.

Sarah Palin had nothing to do with the tragedy in Tuscon.

But even if that tragedy had never occurred, her use of symbols that could be interpreted by disturbed minds as an endorsement of violence was a horrific lapse of good judgment.

No doubt about it.