No. He just has standards. Why is it so unreasonable to expect the leader of the free world to be widely read and well-educated?
Why so many people who fancy themselves to be conservative have such a strong resentment toward the educated and professional classes? The class envy I see in Palin supporters isn't much different from that of the Marxists of old. And yet they fancy themselves conservative.
Go figure.
The primary education our president needs is a solid understanding of God's word; then everything else falls in seamlessly.
It's not. What is unreasonable is, say, suggesting that one must graduate from a particular set of Universities in order to be widely read and well-educated.
It is also unreasonable to suggest that a college graduate, entrepreneur, former mayor, commissioner, and Governor is not widely read or well-educated. Only so much can be excused as luck before it looks like you're grasping at straws.
Will's “standards” became evident the moment he took time to point out a college degree from the University of Idaho as a weakness. It is precisely that Plutocratic attitude that one needed blue blood to govern that compelled the Founders to pen “Of the people, for the people, by the people.”
The Founders did not show anywhere near the disdain for the common man that the so-called GOP “elites” have for any candidate who made a name for themselves without having attended Yale or Harvard.
Perhaps you have a point, however, and folks like me and many of the Freepers at FR should accept that the standards of the GOP are too high for our liking, and that there is perhaps a better fit for the pitchfork and banner crowd. If Sarah Palin is beneath them, then so are we; and I would sooner back an intelligent person of genuine Conservative principle that an intellectual with no genuine connection to the grassroots.