Sarah Palin's Midnight Ride

The Washington Post has a pretty fair-minded appraisal of Sarah Palin's version of Paul Revere's ride. The funny thing is even though she complained about "gotcha" questions, the only question she was asked was what did she learn that day. She should have stopped her answer after the first sentence, "We saw where Paul Revere hung out as a teenager, which was something new to learn." As the Post's fact checker says, the rest of her answer was "presented...in such a free-form manner that it left her the butt of jokes and blogosphere commentary." Both Palin and Michelle Bachman have made embarrassing mistakes about basic US history. It doesn't create a lot of confidence in either of their ability be a credible candidate.