In the final weeks preceding every presidential election, the media drive the American electorate into extreme fits of either boredom or anxiety, depending on one’s level of engagement in the electoral process, by hopelessly obsessing over polls and a mysterious segment of voters that — it turns out — may barely even exist at all. Entire truck caravans laden with barrels of ink — and their present-day electronic equivalent — are devoted each election cycle to analyzing the thoughts, attitudes and leanings of the “undecided” voter.

One month after her debut as Sen. John McCain’s other political half, I honestly have yet to hear much from the mouth of Sarah Palin that I can agree with. And that is in spite of her coy efforts at appearing far more moderate than she actually is. I like to think I am not as gullible as some. Yet I find myself in near-agreement with Palin’s recent highly controversial remarks that the U.S. should pursue terrorists in Pakistan — if necessary, even without that nation’s consent.