Her grammar when speaking extemporaneously is worse than Bush's and the ABC and CBS interviews were weak. Her educational background doesn't strike me as someone who has much understanding of economics at large or an ability to articulate them. She is no Tony Blair.
Am I wrong?
You say that like it's a bad thing. We don't need another socialist republican - we need a true conservative. And Sarah Palin is a true conservative.
Clintoon and Carter were two of the brightest presidents and were utter failures in my book. OTOH, Reagan was constantly maligned as being slow and shallow.
I think people place entirely too much emphasis on intelligence when they should focus entirely on strength of character. I can easily surround myself with intelligent people. I can't buy honesty and integrity with all of the money in the world.
#Am I wrong?#
Probably. She’s obviously smart enough to understand whatever she wants.
But we haven’t seen enough of her to say.
She was astounding as a green politician fighting for the ticket.
But that’s all we’ve seen her do!
Open to it, or up for attacking her?
That said, I don't think someone who is the governor of a state, who has a 4-year degree and many kids in school (who talk about many things from school with her, I'm sure), whose parents are teachers, would have said the things these “unnamed sources” said to smear her.
I do believe that idiots within the McCain camp would like to take out a decent conservative if they could do so anonymously, to help the candidate of their choice in a future job they might have.
I also believe that if there were occasions of misunderstandings, they could twist them beyond recognition. For instance, no one was uptight that McCain's wife showed up in a bathrobe on her daughter's blog with the media (apparently in a hotel room).
President Bush is much more known for grammatical mistakes, yet he has much more advanced degrees from higher-rated colleges, and I would bet you'd prefer him for another four years over McCain or Obama.
Think before you speak.
“Is anyone open to the possibility that Palin may not be as bright and articulate as we need a nominee to be...”
She is bright and very articulate. We should not limit our choices to those who score over 140 on IQ tests. We don’t want or need micro-managers.
We need a good chairman-of-the-board type who can select her cabinet, referee the differences between them, make some final decisions, fire some people, veto some bills, and talk to the American people’s best old instincts and dreams.
I would like you to consider the following carefully, and then give me a reply.
What you are asking me to believe is that Carl Cameron's gossip is accurate.
For this to be true, BOTH of Palin's schoolteacher parents AND all her grade school teachers AND all her high school teachers AND all her college professors were unable to communicate to Sarah the simple fact that Africa is a continent.
The "Africa is a continent" factoid also comes up in numerous parlor games, of which the game Trivial Pursuit is a culturally ubiquitous example.
To recap, Palin stumbled to a governorship and, at 44 years of age, a vice-presidential nomination without learning a nearly universal basic educational factoid.
What you need to think about is what kind of evil, lying scum would be pushing such tripe.
So - what say you, mbraynard?
In a word, no.
And yes, you are wrong.
90% of the criminals in Congress are bright and articulate.
Replace them all with Palin types and we'd all be better off.
Give me honesty, integrity, passion and commitment.
Yes.