That is not a gaffe.  She is frighteningly ignorant.  Do you really dispute this?  I'm not saying she can't learn or even that she's stupid, but she is clearly extremely ignorant.

This has nothing to do with gaffes...I fully expect the candidates to mix-up word, dates, etc.  They're only human, on the road often and are extremely tired.

What Palin has demonstrated is a clear lack of understanding, if not outright ignorance of what diplomacy and foreign policy is.  To actually claim that she has foreign policy experience because her state borders to countries is laughable.

And please...just because the planes that may intercept a potential threat reside in Alaska gives her national security credentials is laughable.  The decision to deploy fighters are and Armed Forces decision.  When the commanders notify leadership in their chain of command...it does not lead to Palin, it leads to Washington DC.

She comes across as completely clueless.

MCain...too irresponsible to lead.

I find it more than frightening that a political party that most recently espouses ”Country First” keeps coming up with such empty suits & skirts as their political demigods.

 This nation’s political system was set up by our founding forefathers as a Federal Republic with a system of checks and balances containing a modicum of transparency for the discernment of the voters.
The glaring mediocrity of those aforementioned is indicative of an agenda that chooses & hypes simple (but sellable) clods as “front men” while the decisions and policies are clandestinely decided by elite special interests.  

  In fairness; the Democratic party isn’t totally innocent in the “front man” game; but our economy improved and our debt was respectively negligible when the morally bankrupt, skirt chasing 'Slick Willy' was at the wheel.  

When I think of Reagan I think of mentally unfit
When I think of Quayle & GW I think of “Dumb & Dumber”

At least the nick name “Slick” emotes the presence of a definitive skill.