This is the thing that so few understand because of the job the media has done on Palin. I know quite a few CEOs and presidents of businesses. Intelligent people most if not all. The dirty little secret is that Palin is not only more intelligent than Obama, she is much more qualified than he to be president. Palin is not a blow-hard know it all, and she often questions her own knowledge on specific issues. Well guess what, this is what ALL intelligent people do, and this is the way they think. You work towards a logical conclusion. What is even more interesting to me is how many truly intelligent people believe (as I do) that she was much more qualified and intellectually curious than McCain.
For those who believe a government piece of paper from a state sponsored educational factory (run by unions) certifies you as an intellectual, then of course she probably does come across as stupid. These people are largely arm chair pundits who simply parrot the rhetoric of the latest talking head. Witness Paul Krugman using terms like “blackmail”, “hijacked” and “insane” to describe the GOP. This Nobel winning economist doesn’t even bother to come up with his own terms of derision much less derive a logical intelligent debate. What you see in so much of the media is no longer even properly termed “bias” reporting. It is simply laziness. Their friends say the conservatives are blackmailing and hijacking, so they say the same. Much easier than cracking a serious history book and checking the sources. The problem in this country is that there is one thing that no one wants to do. This one thing drives politicians and pundits alike. It also drives much of public academia and virtually all of college education in America. That one thing they must not, cannot do is...
to think.
The only addition I’d like to make to your on-target post is that addendum that if you’re attacking the GOP, you will be praised as a free-thinking politician regardless of the party with which you associate. We actually saw this with Palin when she took over as governor. The national media actually lauded her for her dedication in ending corruption (among the old GOP members) in AK. I remember one of the national news broadcasts even running the story of her selling the governor’s airplane on Ebay and the laurels they laid at her feet. As soon as she became an opponent of Zero, the knives were unsheathed.