Leaving aside her record as mayor and governor and her positions on Creationism and choice and her belief that the Pledge of Allegiance, "under God" and all, was written by the Founding Fathers (things relevent to her potentially being president) -

There is our entirely silly and irrelevent reaction to her last name.

Because of *this*. WARNING : VERY EARLY STORY.

Okay, my developmentally impaired half-Vulcan is named PalAn, and it's pronounced PAL-en, but it's still very weird. :) Especially since I was deliberately evoking Down Syndrome.