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Sarah Palin:  Role as VP will be to Ignore The Constitution.

How much Constitutional power does the vice president have?  It seems Sarah Palin is very confused regarding the position of Vice President…

From Think Progress…

Yesterday, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) sat for an interview with KUSA, an NBC affiliate in Colorado. In response to a question sent to the network by a third grader at a local elementary school about what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously argued that the Vice President is “in charge of the United States Senate“:

Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”

PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! … [T]hey’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.

From Daily Kos…

Take a look at a clip from another typically vapid and disastrous Sarah Palin television interview and see what it looks like when the reporter is actually uninterested in clarifications or follow ups. I guess that’s what Palin has moved on to these days. Local affiliate interviews with reporters who won’t ask anything hard.

But that doesn’t actually mean Palin gives correct answers. Oh, no! Far from it! All it means is that the reporter asking the questions doesn’t give any indication of being aware that the answers are incorrect.

From Taylor Marsh Broadcasts…

If women are going to be taken seriously they need to be held to the same standards as men. A man who said something so incredibly ignorant would be pilloried.

This latest gaffe, actually implying that the vice president has legislative authority, makes what she said with Couric seem harmless. This woman has no business being anywhere near the White House. John McCain’s judgment is a joke. Making America pay for it through a possible Palin presidency is dangerous.

And, adding insult to injury…

Guess how much the RNC is shelling out during this economic crisis for Sara Palin’s wardrobe???

What do you think?  Should Sarah Palin understand what the “actual” job of the vice president is?  Or, do we just expect that if McCain is elected, Sarah Palin can do what ever she wants to do?

Personally, I don’t think she is stupid (at least on this issue).  I think, if elected, she plans on ignoring the constitution every bit as much as the Bush administration did.  Let me know what you think in comments.