Because I still can't sleep, I'm going to share some post-midnight musings:
Palin looks an awful lot like Geraldine Ferraro. Ferraro, as we all know, was the first woman to run for vice president on a major party's ticket back in 1984. She was selected by Walter Mondale, who knew he stood no chance of defeating Ronald Reagan and wanted his campaign to be historic. So he picked a woman VP.
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