So, let’s see if we have this straight. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin:

• Did not, as of about a month before she was selected for the job, actually know what the “V-P” did all day.
• Did not, when first asked, know what the Bush Doctrine is.
• Believes that it’s a perfectly fine policy to charge rape victims for forensic evidence collection kits.
• Believes that rape victims shouldn’t be able to get abortions, even if the pregnancy is the result of incest.
• Cannot name a single U.S. Supreme Court decision with which she disagrees, other than the abortion-related Roe v. Wade.
• Says indecipherable things about Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin “rearing his head” into U.S. airspace over Alaska. (Fear not: The North American Air Defense Command says Russians have not violated U.S. airspace.)
• May once have told someone that humans and dinosaurs walked the Earth at the same time.
• Thinks that, just because her state is located in close proximity to Russia and Canada, she has foreign policy experience. (However, when pressed, she cannot detail what that experience is.)
• Cannot name a single newspaper or magazine she’s read to form her own worldview.
• Believes, or may not believe, that hunting al-Qaida extremists in Pakistan without the permission of the Pakistani government is a good thing for the United States to do.
• But does remember hearing about U.S. Sen. Joe Biden’s speeches since she was in the second grade.

Seriously, people, Biden should be considered to have won tonight’s debate if he can refrain from turning to the cameras and asking, “Are you fucking kidding me right now?”

But watching for that uncharacteristic self-restraint doesn’t have to be the only way to have fun as the debate gets underway at 6 p.m. (Pacific) at Washington University in St. Louis. Thanks to Stacey for this sure to be entertaining vice presidential debate drinking game!