As per the Huffington Post:

Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago — about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct — the teacher said.

…Palin told him that “dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time,” Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said “she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks,” recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.

…The only thing disturbing about this, I mean beyond the fact that, as Matt Damon said, that she could have the nuclear codes, is that I remember thinking that Dan Quayle was going to be a deal-breaker too, but he wasn’t. I Guess that had more to do with the anti-charismatic Mike Dukakis, but still…

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