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Well, you would have a stronger argument if you weren't building it on an idea that Krauthammer has specifically ruled out.

You: Charles, you pompous Fox bureaucrat. Ronald Reagan was "schooled" at Eureka College.

Krauthammer: I don't mean she didn't go to the right schools.

You responded as if Krauthammer said she's a dumbass because she has a bachelors from a state school in Idaho when in fact HE SAID THE EXACT OPPOSITE, not only in the part I quoted above but when he also said she is "very smart and adept," has "[g]reat political instincts" and he likes her instincts and worldview.

So, did you even read the bloody article before you posted it? And is this the crap we'll have to put up with all the way to the nomination or Election Day, threads freaking out that anyone dared criticize our queen? Is this where conservatism is now?

Any governor, unless they have gone to the governorship after serving in several high-level federal posts, is going to need to study some issues before they run for President if only to match up data with their principles. For example, if Mitch Daniels had decided to run he would have needed to make sure he had foreign policy briefings out the yang and expect sweet little Katie Couric to ask him who the current defense minister of Chad is. Same thing with Rick Perry...if he gts in he'd better not let "well, we border Mexico" leave his lips; no one will take that seriously and will be desperate to trip him up one some fine point of IMF policy or what Muslim sect believes what. That's just reality.

And you know what? Reagan had been studying those issues for years before his hat went in the Presidential ring.

Moreover, after watching Palin's interview with Greta last night, I have to say that Kraut may be on to something. What I heard from her was a lot of repeated talking points. Good talking points, but few and repeated ad nauseum. I heard her going back to script time and again at a point when a Herman Cain or a Paul Ryan would have been attacking the same subject from a completely new direction. Maybe part of that was that the interviewer was one of the most friendly to her on the planet so she didn't feel the need to be as tough as she would be with a Kouric type, but I came away worried.