[SMARTY]

There are a lot of reasons that Palin stumbled on that interview. What is especially disingenuous coming from the MSM and other Liberals, is that THEY made it appear as a basic and systemic, never-to-be rectified problem.

NOT SO. However, The MSM harped on it and magnified it out of all proportion to its actual significance. American voters being the malleable knuckleheads they are, it worked.

It was NEVER demonstrated that Palin is pathologically ill-informed or uneducated and since she was on a short leash with McCain, she permitted herself to be handled in a really shabby way by these clowns who can not THEMSELVES pass the simplest acid test for credibility, character, intellect, or anything else.

It is one of the main reasons I NEVER watch political interviews

[RobbyS]

Remember the Wizard of Oz? The Scarecrow lamented he had no brain. At the end, after he has demonstrated much cleverness, the Wizard hands him a diploma. Most of the time, it works the other way around. But sometimes the guy with the diploma is a complete fool. Because Obama went to Columbia and Ha’vard, and he talks the professorial palaver, he is supposed to be smart. No doubt he is smart, but in a very superficial way. She went to a lot of schools and got her degree from Idaho, and she has this very “provincial” way of talking. But there is no doubt that she is smart. She has this way of cutting through to the heart of things. But she does not play the game, she did not defer to the judgment of her handlers. Unlike someone like Paul Ryan, she has never served as an intern to those on the inside. They hate those who are not clubable, as Ryan is.

[FroggyTheGremlim]

"The MSM harped on it and magnified it out of all proportion to its actual significance. "

I'll never forget the Dan Quayle "Potato(e)" thing.