Don't tell Katie…

Palin: "... Alaska isn't a foreign country where it's kind of suggested, it seems like, 'Wow, how could you keep in touch with the rest of Washington DC, maybe thinking and doing when you live up there in Alaska?'"

Tell Pat…

Buchanan: "They know she's from Alaska. And I don't think they're expecting to her to really give the details of the Georgia-Ossetia conflict."

Actually, since she supports Georgia's entry into NATO and seems sanguine about the resulting prospects for yet another war, I do expect her to know something about what she's decided about. Credit where it's due - the Governor stands up for her state and the excuse most Beltway insiders would accept. I can sympathize to a degree with Buchanan's condescension, though. He's got to try, but any attempt to excuse the insult to America that Palin's nomination represents will, after all, ultimately fail on the simple ground that there is no excuse for Palin's nomination.

Not even Alaska.

Quotes via The Hotline. My emphasis.