The far-right is making a big deal about Senator Biden's recent gaffe regarding the next president being tested -- hell, Malkin wrote a an entire column this week documenting all of Biden's flubs. In it, Malkin wonders out loud why everyone's not making as big a deal about Biden's gaffes as they are about Palin's so-called "gaffes."
Allow me to clarify this. Palin doesn't make gaffes! Her most ridiculous quotes are absolutely not misspoken words or accidental bursts of ugly truth. Sarah Palin is simply and entirely out of her depth. She doesn't know what the crap she's talking about. So consequently she strings together unrelated hunks of whatever she can think of in order to form something resembling a sentence.
For example, here's a gaffe from Senator Biden: "When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed..." Gaffe. FDR wasn't president when the market crashed, nor was there television at that point.
And here's Palin talking in gibberish: "That thankfully our founders were wise enough to say we have this position and it's constitutional -- vice president will be able to be not only the position flexible." Gibberish! She has no idea what she's talking about even though the question was about the job she's running for.
See the difference? Now that doesn't forgive Senator Biden's obviously anachronistic comment, but then again, everyone knows who Senator Biden is and nobody is seriously questioning his experience and aptitude on the issues. Sarah Palin, on the other hand, is a big nothing. She's an unknown. A lightweight. Two years ago, she was the mayor of small Alaskan town with a population smaller than your local Applebee's. So when she screws up, it's in the context of being a doof who's out of her depth. Hence, the coverage and outrage.