What is point? She is smart enuf to govern a city and state and poll above 80%. I doubt you or I could have done those things WELL, like her. .... Diogenesis
The “point” is getting elected in a general election.
The “point”, as another poster rightly observed, is that Sarah Palin has been “Dan Quailed” and most voters that are not conservative believe her to be as dumb as a box of rocks. Rightly or wrongly, that is the perception in the U.S. of A. in the Year 2008.
The interview with Katie Couric where she could not name a single newspaper she read did nothing to counteract that impression.
Not knowing what the member states of NAFTA are does nothing to counteract that impression.
Do you really believe, Revolting cat, that if the majority of American voters believe that Sarah Palin is not intellectually qualified to be President that they will vote for her just because you say, "Excuse me, but what business it is of yours"?
Free Republic is currently treating Sarah Palin like it once treated Katherine Harris. Like 13 year old schoolboys, Free Republic once gushed over Katherine Harris because A.) She was conservative and B.) She looked hot in a tight T-shirt while riding a horse.
In a general election, simply being conservative and being cute or lovable or “hot” does not get you very far. In the end, Katherine Harris turned out to be an electoral disaster.
But to get back to Palin, she was not the mayor of a “city”. Seattle is a city. Chicago is a city. Houston is a city.
Wasilla is a small town of 9,700. I now live in a small town that is larger than Wasilla and, trust me, you don’t have to have an I.Q. above room temperature to get elected Mayor.
Alaska has a population of 683,478. Dade County, Florida is three and a half times larger than all of Alaska in terms of population with a population of 2,387,170.
Getting an 80% approval rating in the wilds of Alaska does not translate in the Lower 48.
Be that as it may, the Free Republic Sarah Palin Fan Club is now cheering wildly for Sarak Palin to head the Presidential ticket in 2012.
Anybody that suggests, “Hey, let’s ckeck out her fund of knowlege” is attacked.
Anybody that points out, “Bragging about that fact that Palin attended five colleges in four years as an undergraduate is not really helping her appeal to the average American voter” is attacked.
The bottom line is that such a fact is a Red Flag and an investigation of that Red Flag shows that Palin first attended a college, as a Business major, where an SAT score in the mid 500’s put you at the 75th percentile and she then went to a community college for General Education that will not even post the SAT percintile score of its student body.
Whether you like it or not, the majority of American voters are not conservative and they DO ask whether or not their candidates for President of the United States are smarter than their Cousin Vinny.
Sarah Paslin’s performance after the Convention raised serious doubts about that.
Polling data has showed that Palin was a major factor in driving Moderates and Independents to Obama and Obama won. He won big.
In 2012, a Republican ticket with Sarah Palin at the top has as much chance of winning a general election as a Green Party ticket with Cynthia McKinney at the top.
As far as doing things “well”, if you had been asked what countries are in NAFTA, you would have answered correctly.
If you had been asked what newspapers and magazines you read artlicles from, you could have rattled off an entire laundry list of them as any regular FR poster could have.
Sarah Palin could not do that.
That is not “doing well” when you are trying to prove you belong in the Oval Office. That is driving the majority of the American voters to the other side.