You have access to that? Got a link? Because I tried finding that and all I could find was a debunked PhotoShop job some PDS geek manufactured. I'd like a link if you can provide it.
As for her intellect, I think she's exceptional, as in gifted. My dad was in education for some 40 years, as a math/science teacher, then as a principal. According to him, true giftedness expresses itself over the full spectrum of one's life experiences. Palin is arguably more successful than anyone on this forum. You can argue luck, but no reasonable person would take that seriously. She has a combination of gifts and skills that have made her successful enough to put her in contention for the presidency, without the benefit of being born to wealth or having foreign benefactors.
BTW, did you know she has a photographic memory? That's apparently how she got through the teleprompter failure at her 2008 speech. Now a photographic memory by itself doesn't guarantee exceptional intellect, but many exceptional individuals do have it.
My own uncle had a gift that combined memory and symbolic reasoning for some remarkable results. He did fluid dynamics for some government-related scientific think tank. He could look at a page-long list of numbers and instantly and accurately tell you the sum.
But his capacity for articulation was ordinary. Palin is better. And Palin can write. Verbal skills, including writing, are central to early identification of high general intelligence. And Palin did show her abilities early. Did you know she was honor society in high school? She also was recently commended by one of her U of ID professors as one of his best writing students ever. Not to mention the writing analysis done on her emails, pegging her writing to be at CEO level. Like you say, the truth comes out in the overall pattern.
“You have access to that? Got a link? Because I tried finding that and all I could find was a debunked PhotoShop job some PDS geek manufactured. I’d like a link if you can provide it. “
I don’t think she has released those records.
We do know that she attended at least 4 different colleges in the span of 6 years and ended up with a degree in journalism. It’s hard to believe that this is the record of some secret genius.
As I’ve said before, if we’re going to get out of the mess we’re in, with trillions in unfunded liabilities, tons of toxic assets and a global recession, we’re going to need people who seriously know what they’re doing. We can’t spend the next 4 years blaming Obama, just like he tries to blame everything on Bush and ATM machines. We will have to actually fix the problems.