YouTube - Sarah Mania! Sarah Palin's Greatest Hits
My issue with Sarah Palin is not so much with her dogmatic ideology. Right or left, she'd be a terrible President. As for ideology, I don't think she has a clear ideology, let alone a dogmatic one. Her influence is clearly right wing, but of a provincial populist kind; she ain't no intellectual.
She is simply inarticulate. This is not an ideological trait, but rather a reflection of the clarity of her thought. There are left-wingers who are just as inarticulate, whose ideas are just as vague, ambiguous, contradictory and unclear as hers.
The worst part is this: though I'm more left-leaning overall (certain issues aside as many here are well aware), I'd still prefer a right-leaning candidate with a clear mind over Sarah Palin. A clear-thinking right winger, though I may disagree with his policies, would at least be able to come up with a well-thought out plan of action which, though I might disagree with them, and might even profoundly disagree with them, would be able to achieve something constructive to some degree. In fact, I might even prefer a clear-minded rightwinger over a muddy-minded left-winger in that such a left-winger's policies would be scatterbrained, all over the board, and would come to nothing.
So really, though I have issues with her ideology, I have even greater issues with her lack of clarity.