Actually, the woman has to be pretty damned smart in the intellectual sense. She is not a native English speaker but is fluent in the language, managed to get thru dental school, do law school online AND pass the CA bar, reputedly the toughest in the US. So she gets some credit for being highly intelligent. Just not smart in any practical sense. And that, to quote Frost, has made all the difference.
I saw her one time on a TV show, and she made good arguments for her case.