According to the NYTimes:
[W]hen there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, [Palin] appointed a high school classmate, Franci Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year directorship. A former real estate agent, Ms. Havemeister cited her childhood love of cows as a qualification for running the roughly $2 million agency.

If he is unable to complete his term because of disability or demise, the last thing America needs is an empty skirt to be number 45. This will be worse than the Bush administration if that's possible.

In the end, the debate did not change the essential truth of Ms. Palin's candidacy: Mr. McCain made a wildly irresponsible choice that
shattered the image he created for himself as the honest, seasoned, experienced man of principle and judgment. It was either an act of incredible cynicism or appallingly bad judgment.

Threats are threats - I'm all in for tearing them both apart and down and can quite frankly do more than one thing at a time.

This is the height of Palin Derangement Syndrome -- the belief that the real threat from John McCain is that Sarah Palin might become Vice President. The real risk of John McCain's candidacy is that McCAIN might be President.

Of course. I don't see these as mutually exclusive concerns. Obviously McCain as prez is unthinkable and if/when Palin becomes president to replace him is unthinkable. She is not the "real threat" (no more than McCain) if she becomes VP (altho looks like she's salivating to create a unitary vice-presidency a la Cheney whose interests might become her puppeteers). She's a threat if she becomes president. No use arguing if a worse threat than McCain if she becomes prez. A different kind of threat. She's already a threat to the evolution of consciousness, language, science, acceptance, peace and empathy of the sort Jesus embodied even if she's not elected with McCain. She'll be floating around for years like an evil Peter Pan.