Posted on 02/14/2010 4:44:35 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin may very well be the worst presidential candidate in the history of U.S. elections. It’s not because she’s a Conservative and I’m a Liberal. It’s because she’s plain unqualified to manage a game of “Civilization IV,” much less the political affairs of the office of the president.
It is a mystery to me, to be honest, why she has so many supporters, because anyone with a vocabulary larger than the words “you” and “betcha” understands she rivals former President George W. Bush in literacy.
For those of us that don’t watch Fox News, this was illustrated perfectly at the National Tea Party last week. The Associated Press story printed across the nation started with the following line: “Sarah Palin, in a speech that was short on ideas but big on enthusiasm, took aim at President Barack Obama ...”
Therein lies the problem. Enthusiasm will get absolutely nothing done in international politics nowadays. Palin would make an absolutely terrible president. She has a lot of enthusiasm, I’ll give her that. She knows how to get all folksy and talk to an audience like my mother. The problem with this is that my mother would probably make a terrible president.
For some reason, there has been an intellectual backlash against Obama. The term intellectual was bounced around during the 2008 campaign in a derogatory fashion.
Personally, I would love to be called an intellect, but it seems to play directly into the conservative movement of anger and hate. The conservative movement, ever since the Civil Rights Act of 1964, has considered the Democratic Party elitist and for the intellectuals.
The backlash could be attributed to the lower education standards in conservative states. In 2006, the Census Bureau released a report detailing the percent of people in each state with a bachelor’s degree or more. A key statistic behind the highest 15 states: each one of them Obama won in 2008.
I don’t think that’s a coincidence. The most intellectual states want an intellectual president. But the question begs, why doesn’t everyone? Shouldn’t we elect the smartest capable person to the most powerful office in the land?
Typically, it’s hard to judge people based on their educational alma maters. However, every president since Lyndon B. Johnson has been to a very prestigious university, ignoring the brief period an actor with terrible leadership qualities led the country between 1981 and 1989. It shows having a good education is necessary to even become the president, much less become a good president. Bush was actually a Harvard grad, if you can believe that.
Since her brief stint in the world of academia, it seems unlikely that her political prowess has sharpened her understanding of the world. Her most recent gaffes are far more embarrassing, as they show her distinct lack of understanding of the nation’s political system.
Four days after her resignation as Alaska governor, she famously referred to the non-existent Department of Law in Washington in an interview with ABC News. Mere weeks before the election, she completely melted down in a CBS interview with Katie Couric, insisting she reads all of the newspapers. In that same interview, she could not name a Supreme Court ruling other than Roe v. Wade.
Perhaps her most famous quote from that interview was her response to a Couric question regarding the $700-billion bailout. “But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy.” A 4-year-old playing Mad Libs can construct a more competent sentence.
This week alone featured her using her hand as a notepad at a Tea Party convention and incorrectly characterizing fellow right wing pundit Rush Limbaugh’s use of the word “retard” as satire on Fox News Sunday.
It’s fairly obvious she is far too unqualified to become leader of the once-free world. Not only is she about as politically savvy as the lipstick she puts on a pig, her credentials just don’t stack up. Obama was again targeted by the Conservatives for being unqualified and not prepared for the job. He served in the Illinois Senate for seven years, followed by a term as the junior Illinois senator in Washington.
Palin, meanwhile, hasn’t had a position of national prominence. Her highest office was the position of Alaska governor, and she resigned that position after two-and-a-half years. Her previous international political experience involved looking at Russia from her house. She cannot, and should not, be expected to deliver a speech to the United Nations without even knowing Kenya’s location. She could start a war with the country of Africa without even knowing it is more impossible to win that war than our two current wars.
I only get one column a week, and I’ll be going well over my word count again this week. I can’t even discuss half of the stuff that makes her a terrible candidate. However, presented with the aforementioned proof, I have to ask her supporters one question. Why, exactly, do you support this woman?
I have a Master’s Degree from “Texas Tech.” It’s value (to whatever there may be any) is significantly diminished by this example of “critical thinking” by one its student spokerspersons. Thanks, Tony....I wish this had nver seen the light of day.
Hope, change and teleprompters. Real good for America...
ignoring the brief period an actor with terrible leadership qualities led the country between 1981 and 1989.
... and that is where Tony loses 80% of his audience.
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No kidding!! I am sure this MORON thinks Carter was the MOST Supercalafragilistic president that EVER lived.
Was this written by an actual journalist? No wonder it’s a dying industry.
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I can’t wait to read the follow up of this child.
Among past Presidential candidates, there have been plenty of doozies...Dennis Kucinich, Ross Perot, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Carole Moseley Braun, Bill Scranton, Ralph Nader, Jerry Brown...the list is endless.
Tony you are not an intellectual, you are a member of the intelligentsia, collage students that parrot the marxist ideas of their academic masters. Useful idiots according to Lennin. Here are a few questions from one who doesn't want an intellectual president. Which do you favor; freedom or slavery? Life or death? Choose young man, for you presently serve socialists and marxists. And no greater force for slavery and death has ever existed in the history of man. You are one of their minions and a bigot.
It thought the air was much cleaner in Lubbock as in to cleanse the brains of the faculty trained idiots.
Cardone is not qualified to write. It’s made up Liberal double-speak douche-bag-getry.
I had to take your advice and comment. I did try to stay nice, though:
Mr. Cardone, we are all entitled to our respective opinions. I must say two words, with respect to lack of qualifications and the resulting problems in our country’s affairs of state: “Peanut Farmer.”
I thought that said all there is to say on the subject at hand. ;)
I wonder how great he though John McLame was going to be as a candidate?
“Tony Cardone” - is that an intentional rhyme? Sounds a bit like Tony Baloney.
This idiot probably won’t even know who you are talking about.
Little feller’s a mite confused.
And yet you said absolutely nothing.
I don't see how he could. My cat is as old as he is.
Huh? Palin has never been a Presidential candidate.
Sheesh. I mean, Palin isn’t exactly my first choice for nominee in 2012, but this guy is simply ridiculous.
BTW, I’d love to see Palin kick this guy’s tail at Civ IV. I’d love to be in on that game.
The most pathetic analysis by a wanna be intellect.
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