Palin fought a very good fight.
She and Trump would be the perfect team, in my opinion.
Cruz as very formidable, and a future president.
Maybe put Cruz in charge of returning American jobs, to train for it.
:D
My point is that some people simply cannot be portrayed as idiots, however much their enemies might like to do so.
I mentioned Cruz, but WF Buckley also comes to mind. Mark Steyn, also, despite his being a high school dropout.
If you respond intelligently, articulately and aggressively in print or verbally to such attacks, they just make the attacker look stupid.
Palin failed to be prepared for such attacks, which it was perfectly obvious would be coming. Either she or her handlers really screwed that up.
BTW, if intelligence is to be the determining factor in who leads us, perhaps we should have a national mandatory IQ test, and just stick the #1 scorer in as president.