OK. Treating Palin as if she's a viable candidate with valid ideas is courteous.
However, since she is so obviously neither viable nor valid that courtesy is ALSO, NECESSARILY, IN ADDITION, condescending. No way around it.
Just remember the Katie Couric interview and Palin's "job creation" and ask yourself how she ever thought she could get away with such BS. Counting on Couric to sit there and act interested was arrogance. Couric actually sitting there and acting interested was courteous AND UNFORTUNATELY because of the way Palin acted was also condescending.
Palin's BS says a lot about her view of the US, doesn't it?
Arf